{"id":217631,"date":"2022-08-08T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217631"},"modified":"2022-08-06T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T04:12:10","slug":"why-the-chair-of-the-lancets-covid-19-commission-thinks-the-us-government-is-preventing-a-real-investigation-into-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/why-the-chair-of-the-lancets-covid-19-commission-thinks-the-us-government-is-preventing-a-real-investigation-into-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Chair of the Lancet\u2019s COVID-19 Commission Thinks the US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation into the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is \u201cpretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology\u201d and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Current Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n

2 Aug 2022 – <\/em>Prof. Jeffrey Sachs<\/a> is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as the chair of the COVID-19 commission for leading medical journal the Lancet<\/em><\/a>. Through his investigations as the head of the COVID-19 commission, Prof. Sachs has come to the conclusion that there is extremely dangerous biotechnology research being kept from public view, that the United States was supporting much of this research, and that it is very possible that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19,\u00a0 originated through dangerous virus research gone awry.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Sachs recently co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> calling for an independent inquiry into the virus\u2019s origins. He believes that there is clear proof that the National Institutes of Health and many members of the scientific community have been impeding a serious investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and deflecting attention away from the hypothesis that risky U.S.-supported research may have led to millions of deaths. If that hypothesis is true, the implications would be earth-shaking, because it might mean that esteemed members of the scientific community bore responsibility for a global calamity. In this interview, Prof. Sachs explains how he, as the head of the COVID-19 commission for a leading medical journal, came to the conclusion that powerful actors were preventing a real investigation from taking place. He also explains why it is so important to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID: because, he says, there is extremely dangerous research taking place with little accountability, and the public has a right to know since we are the ones whose lives are being put at risk without our consent.<\/p>\n

Nathan Robinson:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I want to quote something that you said<\/a> recently:<\/p>\n

\u201cI chaired the commission for the Lancet for two years on COVID. I\u2019m pretty convinced it came out of U.S. lab biotechnology, not out of nature, just to mention. After two years of intensive work on this. So it\u2019s a blunder in my view of biotech, not an accident of a natural spillover. We don\u2019t know for sure, I should be absolutely clear. But there\u2019s enough evidence that it should be looked into. And it\u2019s not being investigated, not in the United States, not anywhere. And I think for real reasons that they don\u2019t want to look underneath the rug, the statement.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The statement that you made there is a controversial one. Just to read a couple of quotes from the New York Times<\/em> in the last year:<\/p>\n