https://nypost.com/2020/08/15/covid-19-first-appeared-in-chinese-miners-in-2012-scientists/By Isabel Vincent
August 15, 2020
The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats.
Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, arrived at their finding after translating a 66-page master’s thesis from the Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners and sent their tissue samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing.
Latham told The Post that
the coronavirus “almost certainly escaped†from the Wuhan lab.
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