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Members of France’s Academy of Medicine Conclude With Near Unanimity That Covid-19 Emerged After a ‘Laboratory Error’

Although the academy does not offer a definitive explanation for the origin of Covid-19, its report adds to the mounting evidence that the highly contagious disease did not originate naturally.

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A Covid-19 testing site at Beijing, where people are required to have a negative Covid test in the last 72 hours before entering some buildings and using public transportation, July 19, 2022. AP/Andy Wong
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

Ninety-seven percent of the members of the French Academy of Medicine believe that Covid-19 originated from a laboratory error, the president of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, announced during a press conference on Wednesday. 

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NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

Ms. Zhukovsky studied economics and government at Dartmouth College.

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