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The revised and expanded paperback edition of my newest book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, co-authored with the brilliant scientist Alina Chan, is now available to purchase in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. It was a privilege to help Alina write Viral, and a privilege to create this updated version with her.

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The WHO is complicit in China’s Winter Olympics smokescreen

My article for the Telegraph:The news that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, is to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing is baffling on a number of levels. Has he not got a day job to do? There is a pandemic on.“Sources close to” him say it would be a “political statement to turn down the invitation”, which indicates ludicrous delusions of grandeur: he is a bureaucrat, not a head of state, let alone a “dignitary”.But if Adhanom Ghebreyesus does want to play the politician, with most Western governments boycotting the games, his attendance shows an alarming complacency about the persecution of the Uyghurs, the crushing of freedom in Hong Kong and the lack of transparency in finding the source of Covid-19.It is worth listing the ways in which the Chinese authorities have failed to help the WHO do its job over the past two years.

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Why did scientists suppress the lab-leak theory?

My article for Spiked:In August 2007 there was an outbreak of foot-and-mouth virus on a farm in Surrey. It was a few miles from the world’s leading reference laboratory for identifying outbreaks of foot and mouth.

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I was duped by the Covid lab leak deniers

My article for the Telegraph:Inch by painful inch, the truth is being dragged out about how this pandemic started. It is just about understandable, if not forgivable, that Chinese scientists have obfuscated vital information about early cases and their work with similar viruses in Wuhan’s laboratories: they were subject to fierce edicts from a ruthless, totalitarian regime.It is more shocking to discover in emails released this week that some western scientists were also saying different things in public from what they thought in private.

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It’s a danger to the world that the precise origin of Covid-19 remains a mystery

My article for the Telegraph:It is almost exactly two years since the pandemic began. According to an official document seen by the South China Morning Post, the first retrospectively diagnosed case of Covid in Wuhan was on November 17 2019, while genetic analysis points to a similar date, November 18.

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The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger

My article for Spectator:Two years in, there is no doubt the Covid pandemic began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But there is also little doubt that the bat carrying the progenitor of the virus lived somewhere else.Central to the mystery of Covid’s origin is how a virus normally found in horseshoe bats in caves in the far south of China or south-east Asia turned up in a city a thousand miles north.

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Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins

My article for Spectator:With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the pandemic, the Chinese authorities are not the only ones dismayed. Western environmentalists had been hoping to turn the pandemic into a fable about humankind’s brutal rape of Gaia.

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Science journals, Wuhan and a truly bizarre Twitter episode

My article for CAPX:One of the subtexts of the debate over the origin of the pandemic concerns the role of the scientific journals. The magazines that publish scientific papers have become increasingly dependent on the fees that Chinese scientists pay to publish in them, plus advertisements from Chinese firms and subscriptions from Chinese institutions.

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The Covid lab leak theory is looking increasingly plausible

My article for Spectator:In March last year, it was widely agreed by everybody sensible, me included, that talk of the pandemic originating in a laboratory was pseudoscientific nonsense almost on a par with UFOs and the Loch Ness monster. My own reasoning was that Mother Nature is a better genetic engineer than we will ever be, so something as accomplished at infection and spread could not possibly have been put together in a lab.Today, the mood has changed.

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Following a Painful 2020, Asia Moves with Caution into 2021

As Asia bid adieu to 2020, a torturous year that engulfed the planet into a deadly pandemic, celebrations for the coming year is going to be shorter, smaller, and kind of silent due to scary chances of coronavirus flare-ups.In Beijing, the capital of China, the world’s most populous country, the annual New Year light show at the China Central Television Tower scheduled for Thursday through Sunday has been canceled.The Beijing Yonghe Lama Temple, a tourist site, has also decreased the number of visitors permitted to half since Thursday.

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Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?

This is a more detailed version of the long article co-written with Alina Chan on the origin of the virus causing the covid pandemic which was published in the Telegraph on 6 February.The covid-19 pandemic has killed two million people and counting. It has created medical, social, psychological, and economic misery on a scale unprecedented in peacetime.

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Ardern Calls off the New Zealand Election due to New Cases of Coronavirus

On Monday, August 17, 2020, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern announced that the national election, which was scheduled to be held on September 19, has been postponed by a month due to the surge of new COVID-19 cases in the country. New Zealand was among a few that declared virus-free country while several countries were facing the hardships impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, which originated from Wuhan province, China in December 2019.After having successfully contained the virus spread in the country for 102 days, New Zealand is now facing a new wave of pandemic cases that started last week.

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Mental toll of self-isolation can be severe | Contemporary Pediatrics

Much of the focus on COVID-19 research has understandably been about discovering more about the disease, finding treatments to help save lives, and creating the vaccine that will mean the end of the pandemic. The toll of the current home confinement on children has been less studied, but a new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics provides some information, using students from the Hubei province in China.

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Superstitious Fear, Irrational Optimism

How likely are you to be infected with the coronavirus or die of Covid-19? It is difficult to say. We don't know how soon, or if at all, we'll have either a cure or a vaccine. We don't know exactly how deadly the virus is either: The death rate in confirmed cases varies from place to place (e.g., 12 percent in Wuhan, 4 percent in Hubei Province, and 0.9 percent in the rest of China). In addition, the rate depends on the overall number of infections, not on the number of reported cases, but how many unreported Covid-19 cases there are, we can only guess.

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To Fear or not to Fear?

How likely are you to be infected with the coronavirus or die of Covid-19? It is difficult to say. We don't know how soon -- if at all -- we'll have either a cure or a vaccine. We don't know exactly how deadly the virus is either: The death rate in confirmed cases varies from place to place (e.g., 12% in Wuhan, 4% in Hubei Province, and 0.9% in the rest of China); in addition, the rate depends on the overall number of infections, not on the number of reported cases, but how many unreported Covid-19 cases there are, we can only guess.

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Could What You Choose to Eat Prevent the Next Pandemic?

When the history of COVID-19 is written, will we list our obsession with eating animals as a major cause?

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Could What You Put in Your Mouth Prevent the Next Pandemic?

When the history of COVID-19 is written, will we finally name our obsession with eating animals as the original sin that led to a catastrophe of such profound consequence?

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Who You Put in Your Mouth Could Prevent the Next Pandemic

When the history of COVID-19 is written, will we finally name our obsession with eating animals as the original sin that led to a catastrophe of such profound consequence?

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What you put in your mouth could prevent the next pandemic

When the history of COVID-19 is written, will we finally name our obsession with eating animals as the original sin that led to a catastrophe of such profound consequence?

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The Bats Behind the Pandemic

My article for The Wall Street Journal:

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Why have so many of our recent viruses come from bats?

My article from The Spectator:

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