{"id":113018,"date":"2020-09-15T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/chinese-virologist-posts-report-claiming-covid-19-was-made-in-wuhan-lab"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:24:00","slug":"chinese-virologist-posts-report-claiming-covid-19-was-made-in-wuhan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/chinese-virologist-posts-report-claiming-covid-19-was-made-in-wuhan-lab","title":{"rendered":"Chinese virologist posts report claiming COVID-19 was made in Wuhan lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Lq3_rsBJ9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese virologist <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/11\/chinese-virologist-says-she-has-proof-covid-19-was-made-in-wuhan-lab\/\">who has alleged<\/a> that COVID-19 was human-made in a lab in China released a report on Monday that she says backs up her explosive claim.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted a paper<\/a> on the open-access repository website Zenote, that she claims shows how SARS-CoV-2 could be \u201cconveniently created\u201d in a laboratory setting in six months.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, co-authored with two others, is titled \u201cUnusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese virologist who has alleged that COVID-19 was human-made in a lab in China released a report on Monday that she says backs up her explosive claim. Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, posted a paper on the open-access repository website Zenote, that she claims shows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}