Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In
There is a lot of information packed into the 300-page report on the origins of the pandemic released this week. Here are three key points that haven't received a great deal of media attention.
This week, the World Health Organization finally released its long-awaited report about its investigation into how and where the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Although the main conclusions were roughly what the agency had already reported to the media, deep inside the 300-page paper there are tantalizing nuggets of information about the early days of the pandemic. And these points haven't yet been widely reported.
In particular, there's some juicy new evidence about where the virus came from — and how COVID was circulating widely through Wuhan before December 2019.
Let's start with the former.
An "explosive outbreak began in Wuhan in early December 2019"
Buried deep in the
