While the rest of the scientific community have conveniently forgotten that their role is to question and explore without having a foregone conclusion in mind, one scientist has been at the forefront of questioning the origins of COVID-19, but her work has been largely ignored by the media and scientific community. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, told the UK Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee this week that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely engineered, and likely originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. //

As Lord Ridley argued in the hearing at which Chan testified, the time for a real, thorough, and complete investigation, absent the participation of anyone related to the lab, has come. The United States needs to stand up to China, because if this virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the failure to properly identify that and address the safety concerns of the other viruses researched and stored at the lab could lead to another catastrophic outbreak tomorrow, and another the day after that, and another a day after that. The irony of a government entity funding research to prevent the next global outbreak, then accidentally creating a global outbreak, and then being trusted to handle not only the investigations of the origins of that virus but the response to that virus, certainly should not be lost. The question is, now that we are waking up to the reality of this, what are we going to do about it?