{"id":18713,"date":"2021-08-19T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18713"},"modified":"2021-08-19T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:00:22","slug":"delta-variant-proves-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-is-extremely-unlikely-says-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18713","title":{"rendered":"Delta variant proves Covid-19 lab leak theory is \u2018extremely unlikely\u2019, says scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChildish squabbles over the origins of Covid-19 are distracting the public and researchers from more urgent work, a scientist said, as a peer called for answers to lingering questions about the virus research carried out at a laboratory at the centre of the controversy.The theory that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology engineered Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was very unlikely, Wu Chung-I, an evolutionary biologist who has spent most of his career at the University of\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3145695\/delta-variant-proves-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-extremely?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChildish squabbles over the origins of Covid-19 are distracting the public and researchers from more urgent work, a scientist said, as a peer called&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}