Posted June 10, 2021
In early 2020, there was a lot of chatter about where the virus, later named SARS-CoV-2, actually came from. In an excellent, detailed article written earlier this month for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade described how two short pieces published in March 2020 — one in The Lancet and one in Nature Medicine — determined how this chatter would be channeled to the public. Read more.