{"id":117669,"date":"2020-12-26T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-floats-covid-19-theories-that-point-to-foreign-origins-frozen-food"},"modified":"2020-12-26T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T07:22:54","slug":"china-floats-covid-19-theories-that-point-to-foreign-origins-frozen-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-floats-covid-19-theories-that-point-to-foreign-origins-frozen-food","title":{"rendered":"China Floats Covid-19 Theories That Point to Foreign Origins, Frozen Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-floats-covid-19-theories-that-point-to-foreign-origins-frozen-food.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG\u2014China is aggressively advancing alternative theories about the source of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, muddying the waters as the World Health Organization prepares to launch a long-awaited investigation into the origins of the pandemic. In recent weeks, Chinese state media, often suggesting the virus came from outside China, have seized on a series of recent studies that show it was spreading outside the country earlier than first assumed. Government officials have also pushed the theory that the virus could have hitched a ride into the central Chinese city of Wuhan on frozen-food imports. After outbreaks in multiple Chinese cities in recent months including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and elsewhere, authorities pointed to frozen-food packaging as the potential origin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-pushes-alternative-theories-about-origin-of-covid-19-11607445463\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-pushes-alternative-theori\u20261607445463<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WSJ Membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\u2014China is aggressively advancing alternative theories about the source of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, muddying the waters as the World Health Organization prepares to launch a long-awaited investigation into the origins of the pandemic. In recent weeks, Chinese state media, often suggesting the virus came from outside China, have seized on a series [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117669","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}