The paper that helped top U.S. officials promote the theory that COVID-19 has a natural origin should be retracted in light of new messages showing that at least one author held views contradicting the paper’s conclusion, a group of scientists says.
Nature Medicine published “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2“ on March 17, 2020. Kristian Andersen and the other authors claimed that their analyses ”clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” adding later, “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
