Why is this a conspiracy theory? Because the speculation has been investigated by WHO scientists who found no evidence to support it. “It jeopardizes and affects our academic work and personal life. President Trump's claim that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from our institute totally contradicts the facts,” she added. “Before that, we had never been in contact with or studied this virus, nor did we know of its existence,” Shi wrote. She and her colleagues discovered the virus in late 2019, she says, in samples from patients who had a pneumonia of unknown origin. In them, she hit back at speculation that the virus leaked from WIV.
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On 15 July, Shi emailed Science answers to a series of questions about the virus' origin and her research. Shi Zhengli responded to those silly accusations in July 2020.