#German foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that #coronavirus behind #COVID19 #pandemic was accidentally released from #China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported
According to report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency #BND had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby #viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/

Berichten zufolge hielt der #BND schon 2020 ein "Lab Leak" des #Coronavirus für den wahrscheinlichen Ursprung der #Pandemie. Aber bisher gibt's für die These nur wenig wissenschaftliche Evidenz - dafür so manches, das gegen sie spricht. Und nicht nur das. Es ist auch eine Diskussion, von der wir wenig zu gewinnen haben. Andere Aspekte wären viel wichtiger, finde ich. Der Fokus auf #LongCovid und die Vorbereitung auf die nächste Pandemie, zum Beispiel:
https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/covid-und-die-lab-leak-these-die-ewige-suche-nach-schuldigen/2257430

Good morning, y'all. 5 years ago today I did the first issue of CoronaBuzz, a daily newsletter for updates about covid. Over the next 2.5 years I indexed and tagged over 13,000 articles about covid-19 and its impacts around the world. I am still updating that dataset though much more slowly than I was.

The collection is part of ResearchBuzz Firehose. I have an article on how to explore, search, and monitor it here: https://researchbuzz.me/2024/03/14/coronabuzz-navigating-an-collection-of-over-13800-covid-related-article-summaries/ . I hope you find it useful.