‘Tit for tat’: why hunt for Covid’s origins still mired in politics and controversy
by Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5TH8H)
Scientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effort
Robert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, got a call from his university management telling him that agents from the FBI and CIA had requested a chat about his research into the origins of Covid-19.
Garry agreed and on 30 July three agents flew down to Louisiana to talk to him in person.
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