A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday highlighting incorrect, disputed, contradictory and imprecise statements in the World Health Organization’s COVID origins report used to downplay the lab leak theory. The scientists said a new investigation is needed that includes a thorough examination into the possibility that COVID-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. The WHO’s report “failed to reach some of the most basic standards of credible analysis and assessment,” the open letter stated.
