Jamie Metzl. Foto: Wikimedia Commons.

Jo mer man får vite om utbruddet av koronaviruset, desto mer sannsynlig virker det at utbruddet skjedde som følge av en lekkasje fra viruslaboratoriet i Wuhan, sier WHO-rådgiver Jamie Metzl. Historien om at utbruddet fant sted på markedet i Wuhan, er en løgn, sier Metzl til Toronto Sun.

One year after the pandemic started, World Health Organization advisor Jamie Metzl wants China to come clean about the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

Metzl har arbeidet både for Bill Clinton og Joe Biden:

The Kansas City-born, New York-based Metzl, who served as Deputy Staff Director of the Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Joe Biden (2001-2003) and before that on the National Security Council (1997-99) and the State Department (1999-01) under President Bill Clinton), theorizes it was most likely an accidental lab leak in Wuhan.

Selv om viruslekkasje er overveiende sannsynlig, finnes det ikke ugjendrivelige beviser, sier Metzl, som likevel er sikker på at Kinas regjering løy om Wuhan-markedet:

What about the original theory that this all started in a wet market in Wuhan?

That was a lie. And the Chinese government knew very early on that that was a lie. And so in the face of overwhelming evidence in May of last year, the Chinese government shifted its position.

Vi vet at Wuhan-laboratoriet drev med gain of function-research, minner Metzl om, noe Newsweek-journalisten Fred Guterl påpekte i april i fjor. Det virker altså som for mye av et sammentreff at utbruddet skjer på det ene stedet i Kina hvor man forsker på den samme typen virus.

Metzl er svært kritisk til Kinas opptreden etter utbruddet:

Is it because this specifically started in China that we still don’t know how COVID-19 started?

If there had been an outbreak in Congo or some country in Africa and that country, in the earliest days of the pandemic, prevented World Health Organization investigators from going onto the scene of the outbreak, for nearly a month, the world would have gone berserk.

Biden vil være tøffere mot Kina enn Trump var, spår Metzl. Biden er mer strategisk, analyserer han.

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