A scientist who once worked at the U.S. non-government organization involved in risky virus research in China says he believes the COVID pandemic began as the result of a leak from a controversial Wuhan laboratory.
Andrew Huff, an infectious disease epidemiologist and former vice president at the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, said in an interview that the group was engaged in so-called “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years before the COVID-19 virus first emerged from the Chinese city in late 2019. He said he is convinced the virus that caused the COVID pandemic was manufactured at the institute’s laboratory and leaked out.