Evaluation | The WHO has a daring new plan to seek out covid-19’s origins. China may get in the way in which.

“From one perspective, proving the virus has a pure origin is even worse for China. If wildlife farms had been accountable for the pandemic, that might implicate the insurance policies of President Xi Jinping. If there was a lab leak, only one, or just a few, scientists are culpable of an accident,” Kormann writes.