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Find Covid-19 Origin Or Face “Covid-26 And Covid-32”, Warn US Experts
Two leading U.S. disease experts said that the world needs the cooperation of the Chinese government to trace the origins of Covid-19 and prevent future pandemic threats.
Scott Gottlieb, a commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Trump administration who now sits on the board of Pfizer Inc., said that the information to support the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, has increased.
On CBS News’s “Face the Nation”, Gottlieb said that the China hasn’t provided evidence to disprove that theory, while the search for signs that the virus emerged from wildlife hasn’t yielded results.
Not knowing how the pandemic started puts the world at risk of future outbreaks, Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said in a separate TV appearance.
“There’s going to be Covid-26 and Covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of Covid-19,” Hotez said on NBC’s “Meet the press.”