Joe Attanasio ·Senior Reporter
Updated Wed, 20 March 2024 at 4:36 pm AEST Huge claim about origins of Covid-19 by leading Aussie epidemiologist
It's widely accepted Covid-19 has natural origins, but according to a major new study the question of the source of the virus remains 'very much open'.
One of Australia's most prominent epidemiologists who led a major scientific paper on the origins of Covid-19 said it's a "credible possibility" the virus "did come from a lab" in China — a theory she said is backed by a "large amount of new information released in various congressional hearings" in the US.
"The study uses an established tool, known as Grunow-Finke (GFT), which is cited in military medicine textbooks and well known in military medicine, to show that an unnatural origin is as plausible, if not more plausible, than a natural origin and not a low-probability, fringe theory," MacIntyre told Yahoo News.
