As Australia grapples with new outbreaks of Covid-19, questions about the origins of the virus have been re-emerging.US President Joe Biden recently urged intelligence agencies to investigate where the virus came from, and who was responsible.And at the G7 summit, world leaders formally discussed the controversial Wuhan lab-leak theory: the idea that the virus didn’t emerge naturally, but came out of a laboratory. So why is a previously discredited theory gaining traction right now? And should we take that theory seriously? Today, former China correspondent and contributor to The Saturday Paper Linda Jaivin on what we know about the origins of Covid-19 and why conspiracies are flourishing.Guest: Writer for The Saturday Paper Linda Jaivin.See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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