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“Covid-26 and Covid-32 bound to happen if virus origin isn’t found”- US disease experts

If the world wants to prevent the future emergence of any other covid variant, the Chinese government will have to cooperate to trace the origin of covid-19 first, two experts of the health domain of the US said on Sunday.  

There are now, more than ever, reports of studies giving weight to the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 virus escaping from a lab in Wuhan, as such, China needs to provide its support in helping uncover this mystery, Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration said. Previously holding the post during Trump’s reign, Gottlieb is presently a board member in Pfizer Inc.  

During CBS News’s “Face the Nation”, Gottlieb said the Chinese nation hasn’t furnished any proof that would contradict covid’s emergence from China and research to find wildlife’s role in the pandemic’s existence hasn’t given any results.  

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The world is at great risk of future outbreaks without the cause of covid’s emergence, said Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, in a different TV show, NBC’s “Meet the Press”.  

“There’s going to be Covid-26 and Covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of Covid-19,” Hotez added.  

The cause of the pandemic that started in December 2019 remains a mystery to date after it was first detected in a seafood market in China’s Wuhan. The exact reason and triggering point of it is unknown to man or hasn’t been revealed yet at least.  

According to scientists, the virus spread from wild animals to humans, though there hasn’t been solid evidence to support this. Theories surrounding its emergence from accidentally escaping a Wuhan research lab got the most attention of Biden administration after some Republicans long supported it.  

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In an effort to unravel the maze that the world is in dire need of, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a renewed investigation into the virus’s emergence, much to the surprise to everyone. He said that the US Intelligence had differing evaluations of the point of origin- the virus has crossed the species barrier from a natural reservoir or leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology. The President ordered the agencies to “redouble their efforts” with a deadline of 90 days for submission of the report. 

Fresh debates over the virus’s emergence started after a Wall Street Journal report of May 23rd said that 3 researchers from Wuhan Institute of Virology, China had fallen so ill that they needed hospital admission. Their symptoms were “consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,” the report said.  

The US must threaten China with the imposition of sanctions for forcing it to allow for an inquiry as scientists require long-term investigation permission in China to solve the origin matter and take blood samples from animals and humans, Hotez said.  

“We need a team of scientists, epidemiologists, virologists, bat ecologists in Hubei province for a six-month, year-long period,” he added.  

However, China refused to acknowledge Biden’s stated possibility as it was an attempt to “stigmatization, political manipulation and blame-shifting,” according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Thursday.  

Though the WHO’s March report did not mention the virus’s origin, it said the Wuhan lab leak was unlikely.