Scientists evaluate the theory about the origin of COVID due to mutations in the body of a miner

The version that the covid-19 virus evolved in the body of a miner for 10 years, and then got into the Wuhan laboratory, from where the leak occurred, is doubtful, infectious disease specialist, DOCTOR of medical sciences Nikolai Malyshev told RBC.

“I am skeptical about this. it is important for scientists to stake out this or that topic, to express their hypothesis. If it is confirmed, well, if it is not confirmed, they will say it was a preliminary version, ”said Malyshev. According to him, such theories appear frequently.

The HEAD of the Laboratory for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Professor of Virology Alexander Chepurnov believes that “inventing such stories is quite easy if a person understands virology.”

He divides versions of the origin of COVID-19 into three types. The first type is the version that the CORONAVIRUS appeared in nature and, as a result of contact with a person, entered the human population.