Jeffrey Sachs chairs the COVID-19 committee of the prestigious journal The Lancet. He claimed that the deadly new coronavirus (Covid-19) did not come from nature.
Sachs said the new coronavirus has no natural origin, rather it was created in an accident at a US biotechnology laboratory. He made the announcement at a meeting in Spain by the think tank GATE Center.
Introducing the “provocative statement”, Sachs implied that he was involved in a classified think tank because he chairs the coronavirus committee at the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.
“So, in my opinion, this is a bug of biotechnology, not an accident of natural overflow,” he reiterated.
The academic noted that while “we are not sure” whether this is the case, there is “substantial evidence” pointing to it and “this should be investigated”. Sachs complained, however, that the claim “has not been investigated in the United States or elsewhere.”
Jeffrey Sachs and Neil Harrison (Columbia University) wrote an article in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in May suggesting that the new coronavirus is Made in the laboratory. The paper, written by Sachs and Harrison, argues that U.S. universities and federal agencies should be more transparent about the matter, while pointing out the fact that there is insufficient evidence.
Sachs and Harrison suggested that virus databases, biological sequences, virus sequences, and email correspondence and notebooks from labs could be used to help understand the origins of the pandemic. However, nothing in this material has been subjected to what they claim to be “unrestricted, objective, scientific and transparent scrutiny”.
As an indicator that the new coronavirus originated in the laboratory, the authors put forward the fact that the eight amino acid sequence of a key part of the virus’s spike protein is similar to the amino acid sequence found in human respiratory cells.
Sachs isn’t actually the first to claim that the deadly virus didn’t arise naturally.
While there is no conclusive evidence to trace the origin of the new coronavirus beyond reasonable doubt, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded in February 2021 that it was most likely transmitted to humans from animals, possibly bats.