Flawed Variant Information Fuels Baseless COVID-19 Theory
by Angelo Fichera
Jul 29, 2021
5 minutes
SciCheck Digest
A conspiracy theory online baselessly suggests that the World Health Organization and other groups preplanned the variants of the novel coronavirus — citing a dubious timeline. But the timeline doesn’t square with the reality of when variants have been identified and designated thus far.
The exact origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, remains unknown. The scientific consensus that the virus likely originated in bats and then jumped to humans either directly or indirectly, through contact with an animal. Such have happened before with the coronaviruses responsible for and . Lacking proof of that transfer, however,
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