Rumors about COVID-19 will eventually be defeated

In the global fight against the new coronavirus, many rumors have been generated and these rumors will be broken

NEW YORK – February 23, 2020 /MarketersMedia/ —

The Official Statement of The Lancet

February 19, a total of 27 scientists from the United States, Britain, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Malaysia and other countries issued a statement in The Lancet. The Lancet stating that, “as researchers in the field of public health, we have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and well-being. ”We have watched as the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China, in particular, have worked diligently and effectively to rapidly identify the pathogen behind this outbreak, put in place significant measures to reduce its impact, and share their results transparently with the global health community. This effort has been remarkable.

The statement stated that scientists from multiple countries have analyzed the entire genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the new coronary pneumonia and published the results publicly. These results overwhelmingly prove that the coronavirus is the same as many other new pathogens and that the virus originates from wild animals.
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”The 27 scientists who signed the statement include: Sir Jeremy Farra of the Royal Society, James M Hughes, former director of the CDC and NCID, Rita Colwel, former director of the National Science Foundation, Malaysian Academy of Medical Sciences Professor Sai Kit Lam, John S Mackenzie, member of the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) Steering Committee, and several other members of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, an authoritative scientist in infectious disease research and public health.This undoubtedly gives a powerful counterattack to politicians who render conspiracy theories and those who have malicious intentions to create conspiracy theories.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext#coronavirus-linkback-header

US. politicians tout rumors

Last weekend, U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton once again mentioned the conspiracy theory of the coronavirus in an interview, thinking that the virus may come from the Chinese biological warfare program. The Washington Post satirized Cotton’s remarks with Cotton repeats coronavirus conspiracy theory, despite evidence. However, ironically, Cotton acknowledged that “we have no evidence that the outbreak originated there.” After being criticized for this “conspiracy theory” widely considered to be a fringe theory, Cotton retweeted that he did not necessarily consider the virus to be a “modified biological weapon.” He declared this statement is only one of the hypotheses. But he still claimed that the virus “is not from the food market in Wuhan.” Similarly, he did not give any evidence.

A Washington Post fact-check piece stated at the time, “As a lawmaker, Cotton needs to be careful about making inflammatory statements based on such flimsy evidence.”

MIT Associate Professor Vipin Narang said that such evidenceless and irresponsible conspiracy theories will not help. “Cotton should spend more time providing funds to relevant US institutions to help prevent and control virus. Rather than shirk responsibility. “

A team lead by Christian Anderson, a well-known computational biologist and evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in California, recently published an article in Virological, refuting the “artificial synthesis” conspiracy theory of the new crown virus.
The researchers performed a functional and structural comparative analysis of the characteristics of two suspected human interventions in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. These analyses provide ample evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory engineered virus, but a product of the natural evolution of the virus.

http://virological.org/t/the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/398

Many powerful facts prove the ridiculousness of rumors,but rumors has spread from social media to a high-weight US senator. Conspiracy theories are useless other than to create panic, rumors, prejudice, and damage to the global effort to fight the disease together.
The MIT Technology Review also recently criticized a special article, saying that the new coronavirus is the first true social media “infodemic”. At a press conference of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean on February 19, the WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean stated that there was no evidence that the new coronavirus was laboratory-made or that it was a biological weapon Made of their identity. New crown virus comes to wildlife.

Great efforts of the Chinese government

In fact, the Chinese government has made unimaginable efforts to fight the virus. On February 11th, the Los Angeles Times reported “Experiencing the 03 SARS epidemic, and now the fight against the new crown virus is very different.”
The article mentioned that compared to 2003, China’s response has changed dramatically. Mobilization of millions of people. Action across the country has been unanimously to rush urgently needed anti-epidemic supplies. Civil transport aircraft to military transport aircraft are loaded with military doctors and nurses with experience in treating SARS and other infectious viruses to support, which is unprecedented.

It is reported that it feels like you are entering the world of science fiction-a country in a wartime state, everyone wearing a white jumpsuit and a face mask. Some young nurses posted videos of themselves, and they cut their hair short to make it easier and more time-saving to wear protective clothing, and sometimes work for 20 hours in a row. President Xi Jinping guided the epidemic prevention and control in various places in Beijing, and measured the temperature in accordance with the requirements. When you see the human scale and fearful speed of the national reaction in China, two things linger longest in mind. 

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-11/how-this-coronavirus-is-different-from-sars

As of press time, new cases in China have declined for 18 consecutive days. The newly increased number of confirmed cases in Wuhan has been reduced to three figures. The number of people cured in China has exceeded 20,000. Although we can still feel the pressure in Wuhan, it is clear that we have already seen signs of improvement in the epidemic. We can trust that under the effective mobilization and command of the Chinese government, the spread of the new coronavirus will be further controlled.

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