{"id":119684,"date":"2021-02-17T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/politics-was-always-in-the-room-who-mission-chief-reflects-on-china-trip-seeking-covid-19s-origin"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:22:38","slug":"politics-was-always-in-the-room-who-mission-chief-reflects-on-china-trip-seeking-covid-19s-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/politics-was-always-in-the-room-who-mission-chief-reflects-on-china-trip-seeking-covid-19s-origin","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Politics was always in the room.\u2019 WHO mission chief reflects on China trip seeking COVID-19\u2019s origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/politics-was-always-in-the-room-who-mission-chief-reflects-on-china-trip-seeking-covid-19s-origin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spoke with the leader of the World Health Organization\u2019s recent mission to China to probe the origins of the #COVID19 pandemic. Here\u2019s what we learned:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lab accident hypothesis, while \u201cextremely unlikely,\u201d has not been ruled out, Peter Ben Embarek says after returning from 4-week investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke with the leader of the World Health Organization\u2019s recent mission to China to probe the origins of the #COVID19 pandemic. Here\u2019s what we learned: Lab accident hypothesis, while \u201cextremely unlikely,\u201d has not been ruled out, Peter Ben Embarek says after returning from 4-week investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119684","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\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}