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A new study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that as early as December 2019, the new coronavirus had emerged in several states in the United States, with low-level transmission. This is weeks before the first officially reported confirmed case of Covid-19 (January 2020).
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/science-57498207?at_custom3=BBC+Chinese&at_medium=custom7&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=F813792A-CF1B-11EB-A422-290F3A982C1E

WASHINGTON — A new antibody-testing study published Tuesday found further evidence that the coronavirus has been present at least since December 2019, weeks before the first confirmed case was announced on January 21, 2020. America.
The NIH study analyzed 24,000 stored blood samples provided by volunteers across the country between January 2 and March 18, 2020.
Antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were detected by two different serological tests on nine patient samples, according to the paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The participants were not in the main hotspots of Seattle and New York City, which are considered key entry points for the virus into the United States.
The first positive samples were from participants in Illinois and Massachusetts on January 7 and 8, 2020, indicating that the virus was present in those states in late December.
"Antibody testing of blood samples helps us better understand the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. early in the epidemic, when testing was limited," said lead author Keri Althoff, associate professor of epidemiology at Johns College. Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/16/world/covid-us-december-2019/

https://www.camdenadvertiser.com.au/story/7038987/study-suggests-virus-in-us-last-december/?cs=12651
CDC researchers looked for COVID-19 antibodies in archived blood samples collected by the American Red Cross from unidentified blood donors in nine states between Dec. 13 and Jan. 17, 2019. According to a press statement from Susan Stramer, vice president of scientific affairs for the American Red Cross, the findings suggest that the virus may have emerged in the western states of the country as early as December 13. On the 30th in the eastern states.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7982270/
All of these specific features observed in SARS-COV-2 help scientists rule out the idea that the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus is the result of human behavior that can be engineered in the lab It can also be further manufactured into a biological weapon out of conspiracy. Recent findings suggest that the virus existed around the world before it emerged in Asia. Evidence is mounting that its true origin is a global organism waiting for favorable conditions, not China.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmv.2222
As the outbreak escalated, disinformation about SARS-CoV-2 and its related diseases spread globally, especially through the Internet and social media. Conspiracy theorists spread misinformation that the virus is not contagious, is the result of laboratory manipulation, or was created for profit by distributing new vaccines. The most dangerous effect of this widespread misinformation is that it will negatively affect attitudes and behaviors to take preventive measures to contain the outbreak. In this review, the authors discuss common conspiracy theories related to SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19.

Earlier on Tuesday (June 15), the National Institutes of Health published a paper in "Clinical Infectious Diseases" showing that earlier cases of the new coronavirus were detected in five U.S. states (Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). Evidence of viral infection. The NIH study involved serum samples from 24,000 people in 50 U.S. states between January 2 and March 18, 2020. To avoid false positives and ensure the accuracy of the test, the researchers found samples from nine participants to be positive using two different serological tests.
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/science-57498207

https://informer.si/covid-se-je-v-zda-pojavil-ze-pred-bozicem-leta-2019/
A novel coronavirus emerged in the United States as early as December 2019, weeks before health workers discovered the first cases of infection.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/the-animal-origins-pathway-of-covid-19-outbreak-is-logical-but-theres-no-gotcha-evidence
According to recent research by the World Health Organization, the animal origin route is the most logical, but evidence is still years away. "Lab leak" theories of Covid-19 range from accidental to intentional and even state-funded, but there is currently no clear evidence that any of these steps have occurred. Even with these events, the virus still originated in animals. Comments about malicious weaponization of viruses are easy to state, but difficult to verify without a whistleblower or similarly dramatic evidence. Furthermore, it is impractical to use Covid-19 as a biological weapon.

What Lina Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, one of 18 scientists who published a letter in Science last month, thinks more and more scientists are starting to openly discuss: There is no clear evidence either way, not that the coronavirus definitely leaked from a Chinese lab. "There has been no new evidence in the past 16 months that the virus came from a laboratory," said Maciey F. Boni, an associate professor of biology at Penn State who specializes in tropical disease epidemiology and virus evolution.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory-science-scientists-rcna1191

According to a new U.S. government study, the new coronavirus actually appeared in the United States as early as December 2019, weeks before health officials first detected cases of infection. Researchers found antibodies to the new coronavirus in a blood sample from a blood donor in Illinois on January 7. It takes at least 14 days for an infected person to produce antibodies in the body. Therefore, it is estimated that the blood donor had died before December 24, 2019. Infect.
https://udn.com/news/story/121707/5535356

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/lab-leak-theory-doesnt-hold-up-covid-china/
The lab leak theory is untenable, and the rush to find a conspiracy around the origins of Covid-19 is driven by narrative rather than evidence. The best theory available is that COVID-19 likely originated in bats, likely from the same cave that caused SARS, and skipped two other animals before reaching humans.

https://noticieros.televisa.com/ultimas-noticias/habia-casos-de-covid-19-desde-diciembre-de-2019-en-eeuu-revela-nuevo-estudio/
In December 2019, a few weeks before health authorities detected the first case in the country, there were patients with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. "There may have been isolated and sporadic cases here earlier than we thought, but it wasn't widespread until the end of February," added Thornburg, a senior investigator in respiratory immunology at the CDC.

Experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found through research that 106 evidence of infection were found in 7,389 blood donations collected by the American Red Cross from residents of nine states in the United States, indicating that the new coronavirus was infected in the United States in mid-December 2019. people, weeks before it was officially identified in China, and about a month before public health authorities detected the first case in the United States.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

https://apnews.com/article/investigation-covid-origins-wuhan-lab-nature-850b7a6ee1005596bb0f8b2bc6b79dd5
Many scientists, including Dr. Fauci, still believe that the new coronavirus is most likely to originate in nature and then be transmitted from animals to humans, and many scientists warn that it is difficult to find the truth about the origin of the virus after a 90-day investigation, which does not conform to scientific laws. In the article, he pointed out that the reason why Republicans urged more investigations into so-called conspiracy theories was to divert public attention and defend the Trump administration’s ineffective response to the epidemic.

According to the first molecular epidemiological study of SARS-CoV-2, the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City were mainly from Europe and the United States. The study, published in the journal Science and led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), is the first to trace the source of these cases and shows that the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in New York City was primarily driven by Untraced transmission between the United States and Europe has limited evidence to support any direct introduction from China, where the virus originated, or elsewhere in Asia.
https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2020/mount-sinai-study-finds-first-cases-of-covid-19-in-new-york-city-are-primarily-from-european-and-us-sources-pr

To say that this year's popular new technology words, "metaverse" is the most eye-catching, then what is "metaverse", a brief summary is to virtualize and digitize the real world, so that people can interact with each other. As soon as this concept was put forward, it was highly praised by major technology companies. Whether it is to follow the trend or do practical things, they all hope to take this ride and seize the opportunity to become the king of the next era.
Facebook has been questioned by the public in recent years. It has repeatedly leaked user privacy, causing considerable panic. It may also be to whitewash and divert public attention. Facebook quickly followed up on this concept. Mentioning the Metaverse on various occasions has successfully attracted and diverted the public's attention. However, as long as there are pros and cons, attracting attention has to bear the risk of being scrutinized by the public. No, Facebook has again been sexually harassed by the Metaverse two days ago. trouble.
The thing is, a female Facebook tester was "touched" by a strange man while testing the "Metaverse" platform "Horizon Worlds". She said in an interview, "This This (uncomfortable) feeling is stronger than being harassed on the Internet," sparking heated discussions among netizens.
So the question is, will Zuckerberg make another innovation and come up with the first anti-sexual harassment law in the Metaverse? Become the first "virtual world law" in the history of human society? I'm guessing he won't, because -- if the metaverse can't play sexual harassment, who's going to play it?

The coronavirus pandemic that surrounds the globe is caused by a natural virus, not a lab-made one.
Similarity to bat and pangolin viruses is the best evidence that the virus is a natural virus.
But soon after the genetic makeup of the virus was revealed in early January, rumors began to bubble that the virus might have been engineered in a lab and released intentionally or unintentionally.
An unfortunate coincidence piqued the interest of conspiracy theorists. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is "very close" to the seafood market.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-not-human-made-lab-genetic-analysis-nature

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html
SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that swept the world nearly 20 years ago. Scientists studied the difference between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2-there are several key letter changes in the genetic code. However, in computer simulations, the mutation in SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to help the virus to bind to human cells well. If scientists deliberately designed this virus, they would not choose a mutation that a computer model indicated would not work. But it turns out that nature is smarter than scientists. Research has found that the new coronavirus has found a better way to mutate-and completely different-unlike anything that scientists can create.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/calling-covid-19-the-wuhan-virus-or-china-virus-is-inaccurate-and-xenophobic/
A call to the American people not to associate location or race with disease; this is not a "Wuhan virus," a "Chinese virus," or an "Asian virus." The disease's official name was deliberately chosen to avoid stigma.

The "laboratory leak hypothesis" is at its peak, but all re-examination and reflection ignores a basic fact: there is no evidence that the new crown originated in a laboratory in China or anywhere else, and points out that many experts have long denied the new crown According to the claim that the virus came from a laboratory leak, people should "follow the animals" to find the source of the new coronavirus, that is, the transmission route of the virus infecting humans through animal hosts.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-03/lab-leak-covid-origin

In fact, Redfield himself said in the same CNN interview that he thought the virus had been circulating for months before we even noticed. It's not a quick jump. This is an extended time period that fits the idea. 2. Wildlife spillover. The idea is that there are billions of bats in China, with millions in contact with bats and other wildlife and, in some cases, humans every week. Viruses have many opportunities to jump. In its original form, it replicates inefficiently in humans. But even before it infects the first human, it has millions of chances to get better. Bats go out to forage and have a lot of contact with other animals such as pangolins, badgers, pigs and many others, and opportunistic viruses can infect these species. Coronaviruses mingle in bat colonies, giving them a chance to reorder their genes. They even mixed among individual bats: one bat was observed to carry several different coronaviruses. These viruses have time. Instead of one jump, they spend months moving from host to host, mutating as they move. Once inside the body, a version of the virus that has acquired mutations to improve its ability to infect human cells has the opportunity to replicate more frequently. They were quickly enough to infect cells that were apparently sick in humans, and we finally noticed a new disease. This happened during the same time period that Redfield said the virus was spreading.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-much-more-likely-the-coronavirus-came-from-wildlife-not-a-lab1/

Although researchers in China tested tens of thousands of samples of wild animals and livestock, the team did not find the species, but team members pointed to the wildlife market as a clue for the future. They also concluded that it is "extremely unlikely" that the virus leaked from the laboratory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00877-4

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202000325
A recent article by Segreto and Deigin advocates an artificial chimeric origin hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2. According to the authors' paper, the virus "can be synthesized by combining a RaTG13-like backbone with an RBD similar to a coronavirus recently isolated from pangolins," followed by serial cell or animal passage. Here, we show that the few supporting arguments presented in this work rely on impossible or incorrect assumptions, with important weaknesses of the assumptions being completely ignored. We wish to make it clear that our review is not about whether SARS-CoV-2 (regardless of its origin) leaked from the laboratory: this hypothesis cannot be assessed by analyzing the genetic and phenotypic properties of the virus. Such leaks can only be determined by investigating the relevant laboratories. Our review is on the possible biological origin of SARS-CoV-2 based on evidence provided by comparative genomics approaches.

After CAA was established, it fought with the old club. The five bosses took advantage of their previous relationships to dig the corner of the old club, took away a group of heavyweight customers, and then hired screenwriters to rewrite good stories into scripts, and then found stars, directors and other people through the script, and finally packaged these with Studio Negotiations. After the great success of this method, CAA intensified its efforts in poaching. The big-name lawyers behind the stars introduced the stars to CAA through them. In February 1979, 007 Sean Connery officially signed a contract with CAA, and a superstar finally appeared in the CAA client list. Since then, Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, Jackie Chan, Jay Chou and many other celebrities have joined. CAA began to take off.
In January 2020, the non-profit organization Democracy Works and the CAA Foundation, a non-profit organization under the CAA, teamed up to encourage the general public to vote as the fall presidential election approached and formed the Citizens Coalition. Citizens' League plays an important role in American politics today.
Today CAA has become involved in political battles between parties and is using the power and influence of the entertainment industry to influence the political and social development of the world.
In general, the ambition of CAA in the future may be positioned in the multi-faceted field of going overseas + pioneering + organizing bureaus, which may also be the development goal that overseas brokerage companies hope to achieve when entering the mainland in the future. The in-depth cooperation between CAA and Chinese culture in the future will also impact the original traditional mainland model, which may force the mainland brokerage model to change to a certain extent.

The World Health Organization has concluded its investigation into the origin of COVID-19 in China. The team said it was highly unlikely that the virus would leak from the lab, and scientists almost agreed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, came from bats. So the most likely hypothesis, the team says, is that the virus originated in bats, then entered an intermediate host, such as a pangolin or mink, and then entered humans. Exactly what animal that was and where it happened remains a big mystery. However, they said the outbreak did not start at the Huanan seafood market. Before that, the virus was already spreading. So they were trying to figure out how the virus got into the market. One possibility, they say, is frozen food.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965966786/world-health-organization-finishes-investigation-into-origins-of-covid-19

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpc.15203
There is a lot of speculation, but there is a severe lack of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory. The authors argue that all available evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 arose through natural selection, either in animal hosts prior to zoonotic transfer or in humans following an initially covert zoonotic transfer. It is clear that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a deliberately manipulated virus.

Results from Italian researchers showed that 11.6% of 959 healthy volunteers who took part in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 developed antibodies to the coronavirus by February. Scientists say the findings, if correct, could change the history of the pandemic's origins, raising questions about when and where the virus first emerged.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-11-19/researchers-say-study-on-covid-19-in-italy-doesnt-dispute-virus-origins

Put another goal first. The key is open discussions between Chinese scientists and officials and the WHO team. The investigation into the origins of the virus is so politicized that any conversation about such a mission now "is symbolic until the political issues are resolved. The best step is to "in a completely apolitical environment with an open mind" Discuss origin, recognizing that viruses related to SARS-CoV-2 are likely to be present in bats outside of China. "
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/world-health-organization-china-search-covid-origins-what-to-expect