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The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has sensationally claimed Covid may have leaked out of a US lab.
Unveiling the results of a two-year investigation into the origins of the pandemic, the magazine's team tasked with uncovering the truth stated it was 'plausible' the virus could have emerged in America.
It echoes the rhetoric of Beijing's disinformation crusade, which attempted to divert attention away from the infamous Wuhan site by pointing the finger at a military base in Maryland.
While mentioning the secretive laboratory located just miles away from the 'ground zero' of the pandemic, it said independent teams have also 'not yet investigated' US labs.
Authors argued the country's National Institute for Health — responsible for carrying out research into some of the world's deadliest pathogens — had 'resisted disclosing details' of its work.
Even when discussing the possibility the virus emerged naturally from an animal, the Lancet team said this may be in a creature located 'outside of China'.
Virologists told how they were 'shocked at how fragrantly' the report ignored crucial evidence regarding the virus's source. It was described as one of the Lancet's 'most shameful moments.'
Pictured: The Wuhan Institute of Virology, where crucial data was reportedly wiped by Chinese scientists
It is not the first time the 198-year-old journal, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Richard Horton, has been accused of supporting China's narrative that Covid did not emerge within its borders.
Just as Covid started to spread, the journal published a letter from 27 experts which praised Beijing's 'rapid, open and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak.'
These authors also attacked what they described as 'conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid does not have a natural origin,' in a move some saw as a blatant attempt to silence the lab-leak debate.
It has also allegedly reported articles exploring the lab leak hypothesis as 'false information' to social media giants and refused to publish articles criticising China's persecution of the Uighurs ethnic group.
The author of The Lancet's Covid-19 Commission report, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, has previously been nicknamed 'Xi's propagandist' over his pro-Beijing comments.
In June, he astonishingly told a conference in Madrid that he was 'pretty convinced' the virus was the result of 'US lab biotechnology.'
Professor Jeffrey Sachs reiterated claims that American — not Chinese — scientists could be responsible for Covid's creation (pictured here at a conference in Madrid earlier this year)
The Lancet's editor-in-chief Richard Horton has previously published pieces attacking 'conspiracy theories' that Covid could have been leaked from a Chinese lab
His claim was inevitably seized upon by Chinese President Xi Jinping's government, with officials arguing it warranted a 'thorough investigation.'
Professor Sachs, who was twice named one of Time
