British medical researcher, Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar claims British medical journal The Lancet has withheld facts about the spread of coronavirus and its danger, Daily Mail reports with reference to the scientist's book.
According to Farrar, the journal had exclusive access to scientific articles confirming human-to-human transmission of the pathogen, and this information could stop the rise in the number of infections and save the lives of millions of people. However, the editors of the publication did not publish the first studies of Chinese doctors and disregard advice from leading epidemiologists.
The researcher noted that in China, they started talking about the danger of the coronavirus in late 2019, when the first cases of infection in Wuhan were detected. & nbsp;
Earlier & nbsp; The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported that there is evidence that the first cases of coronavirus infection in the country date back to December 2019. & nbsp; US intelligence has not yet been able to determine the causes of the emergence of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, & nbsp; The leadership of the Wuhan Institute of Virology assessed the possibility of a new coronavirus leak from the lab. In addition, Chinese scientists said, & nbsp; that the origin of the coronavirus can only be natural.
To date, more than 190 million cases of coronavirus infection have been identified worldwide. Formerly AiF wrote about the countries that suffered the biggest losses from the pandemic.