Is There An Us Conspiracy Behind Sars?

The origins of the COVID-19 virus are still unclear, but U.S. intelligence agencies have been tasked with debunking conspiracy theories that suggest it was created by a lab in Wuhan, China. The virus’s origins are still unclear, but it is believed that it was not weaponized or engineered. The SARS conspiracy theory emerged during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in 2003.

The Biden Administration declassified a report that revealed a split within the U.S. government on the matter, with five federal agencies concluding that SARS-CoV-2 most likely originated in Wuhan. However, the patents presented in this video do not prove a conspiracy around COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2) as they pertain to an older, different strain of the virus.

For most of 2020, the notion that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, was treated as a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory. This review discusses common conspiracy theories associated with SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 and considers how we can address and counterbalance them.

Intelligence investigations are inconclusive on the virus’s origins, but it is unlikely that it was weaponized or engineered. The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the SARS outbreak in China in 2003.

As the COVID-19 crisis worsens, the world also faces a global misinformation pandemic. Conspiracy theories that behave like viruses themselves are being explored, with a discovery that shows the virus sequence existed two weeks earlier than previously known undercutting China’s timeline of events.