DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: arabic.sputniknews.com ( archive, original ) , skyiraq.news ( original ) , mulhak.com ( archive, original ) , addiyarcomcarloscharlesnet.com ( archive, original ) , 3-arabi.com ( archive, original ) , yemenportal.net ( archive, original ) , neworientnews.com ( archive, original ) , al-ahd.net ( archive, original ) , sahafatak.net ( original ) , kolalwatn.net ( archive, original ) , ahfad.info ( original ) , albidda.net ( original ) , bbcnews1.com ( original ) , lomazoma.com ( archive, original ) , theworldnews.net ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: March 18, 2020
- Countries / regions discussed: US
AI translations:
DISINFO: America should reveal its role in producing coronavirus
SUMMARY
Washington should reveal its role in producing and spreading the coronavirus.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. There is no evidence that suggests that the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is an American product.
The virus was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading with new cases being reported in almost every country around the world, including the United States, causing 191127 confirmed cases and 7807 deaths spread in 177 countries/territories/areas up until 18 March 2020.
Furthermore, a group of 27 prominent public health scientists, "strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin", and they “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” just like many other viruses that have recently emerged in humans. no to mention that the esteemed Nature magazine, published a study that concurs that “two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer”.