Dr. Petros Karayiannis commented on the U.S. Congress report, which suggests that the most likely scenario for the origin of COVID-19 is a lab leak, during his appearance on Mesimeri kai Kati.
“Of course, no one can say with certainty where the virus originated because, even after reading the Congress report, they are not 100% sure, but they lean toward the lab leak scenario. There are several pieces of evidence that led me in the past to support this view,” he said.
“The first,” he explained, “was the collaboration between Chinese and American scientists to isolate viruses from bats, which included cultivating these viruses in a laboratory. They were funded for joint studies, and this became public during the Trump administration. That is why Trump claimed that the virus escaped. These cell cultures were of human origin, which explains why the virus was adapted to multiply in human cells. This also accounts for how rapidly the virus spread worldwide,” he noted.
He further explained that the first SARS virus, which emerged in 2004, originated from animals and its spread was not as rapid, allowing it to be contained.
“This particular virus was isolated from bats and created in a laboratory, so it was adapted to multiply and transmit to human cells more easily,” Dr. Karayiannis added.
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