The Washington Post dismissed the COVID lab leak theory as a 'conspiracy theory that was already debunked' in a since-corrected report that helped push the mainstream narrative.
Daszak was among the experts featured in a Washington Post video report from April 2020 fact-checking the lab-leak claim.The 10-minute video highlighted the two labs being geographically close to the wet market in question at the time and the various longstanding safety concerns the facilities had before the pandemic.
"No natural cause has been identified for the virus and some prominent scientists said they are more receptive to the lab-leak theory," the update read in part. While Kessler acknowledged"history books will reward" Cotton if his assertion about the lab-leak was indeed correct all along, he appeared to downplay the Trump administration's stance at the time.
The Washington Post famously declared in a news article that the theory that COVID leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was"debunked" back in February 2020. It later issued a correction.One of The Post's own newsletter authors didn't use the term"debunked" like some of their colleagues but heavily emphasized that Trump and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were pushing a"unsubstantiated" theory about COVID's origins.
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