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Covid-Hearing Witness Lays Out Overwhelming Case for Lab-Leak Theory in Blockbuster Opening Statement
An independent scientist and accomplished businessman delivered testimony before the Senate Tuesday morning going into detail on why he believes the coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Dr. Steven Quay, a scientist who authored a widely viewed Bayesian analysis concluding that the virus originated from a lab, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and read a detailed opening statement dissecting the data backing up his belief that the virus came from the Wuhan lab.
Quay, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and was on the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine, described “six approaches” that inform his view that the virus emerged from a lab: the timing of the virus’s emergence around Wuhan, data from the wet market at the center of the natural-origin theory, research activities at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the lack of evidence consistent with a natural origin, the genomic sequence of the coronavirus, and specific features of the early genomes of the coronavirus.
After introducing each approach, Quay quickly rattled off significant details from his written testimony to substantiate his claim that the existing fact set is incompatible with the natural-origin theory.
