Virus experiments in the heart of Berlin – How dangerous is gain-of-function research?
What role do Christian Drosten, the Charité, and a controversial virological method play in the origin of the coronavirus? A search for clues behind laboratory doors.
For some time now, there has been increasing evidence that the coronavirus did not jump to humans via a wildlife market in Wuhan , but originated in the Wuhan Lab of Virology. This view, which was dismissed as dubious during the pandemic, has been endorsed by the US Congress, numerous international experts, and the Federal Intelligence Service. After some hesitation, even Germany's top virus expert, Christian Drosten, is no longer completely opposed to this assumption.
But what consequences would the realization that the virus is not an act of nature, but a human creation? What do these labs do, where are they located, and is a new pandemic conceivable that originated in a laboratory?
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