Comment by Brendan Wren

Having been to Wuhan a number of times and having had infectious disease researchers from Wuhan working in my labs in London I don’t believe that there have been any deliberate or nefarious activities with the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Wuhan is an advanced city of over 10 million population with excellent state-of-the-art infectious disease facilities. It is generally accepted that the virus has mutated naturally and it has been very difficult to contain within the human community. It should be noted that pandemics occur throughout history and indeed we have them every year. These include other viruses and bacteria, for example antibiotic resistant bacteria that we know through human activities, such as travel, spread rapidly worldwide. Pandemics happen naturally and it is unnecessary to invoke a conspiracy theory.