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    Why A Lab In Wuhan Is Worth A Closer Look As A Possible Source Of The Pandemic

    With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.
    by Avie Schneider May 27, 2021 3 minutes
    A laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 13, 2020. Focus has turned back to the facility as a possible origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Updated May 27, 2021 at 11:21 AM ET

    The idea that the coronavirus could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China — instead of jumping from animals to humans — was dismissed as a conspiracy theory by many scientists a year ago. That has changed now.

    As Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday: "The historical basis for pandemics evolving naturally from an animal reservoir is extremely strong. And it's for

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