Wuhan Lab Scientist Danielle Anderson Gives Her Take On Coronavirus Leak Theory

The researcher worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the estimated beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.

A scientist who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the pandemic downplayed the chance that the coronavirus leaked from there. Danielle Anderson, an Australian virologist, told Bloomberg Sunday that the virus probably emerged from a natural source but wasn’t “naive enough” to entirely dismiss the possibility of a lab accident. Anderson appeared to respond to a Wall Street Journal report in May that researchers there had fallen seriously ill in late 2019 from COVID-19-like symptoms, according to U.S. intelligence. Anderson, who specializes in bat-borne viruses, arrived at the lab in November 2019.