In that hearing, Dr. Daszak said he had worked with Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, dubbed the "Bat Woman" for her role in researching bat coronaviruses, but he rejected the accusation that the Wuhan lab spawned the pandemic virus.
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Mr. Daszak said “substantial evidence” shows that COVID emerged naturally from an animal host and insisted there was “zero evidence it emerged from a lab.”
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