Article 5JVFE Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory

Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory

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Peter Beaumont
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Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknown

A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a smoking gun" to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.

David Baltimore, a distinguished biology professor, had become one of the most prominent figures cited by proponents of the so-called lab leak theory.

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