Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
| Pengarang | Alina Chan dan Matt Ridley |
|---|---|
| Diterbitkan | 16 November 2021 |
| Penerbit | HarperCollins |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0-063-13912-1 |
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 adalah sebuah buku tahun 2021 karya pakar biologi molekuler Kanada Alina Chan dan penulis sains Inggris Matt Ridley. Para pengarangnya mendeskripsikan penyelidikan terhadap asal usul Covid-19 terkini, mendokumentasikan upaya-upaya untuk mengungkap misteri tersebut. Buku tersebut menerima reaksi campuran.[1][2] Wall Street Journal menyebutnya sebagai "mungkin kasus paling komprehensif untuk teori kebocoran laboratorium yang saat ini tersedia".[3]
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Pells, Rachel (22 November 2021). "Covid lab-leak researcher is glad she challenged China's Wuhan 'cover up' despite death threats". iNews. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
Chan’s critics have multiplied – as have her supporters – with the publication of Viral ... The book has invoked mixed reactions.
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- Chivers, Tom (20 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review — Did Covid-19 leak from a Chinese lab?". The Times. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
These stories all seem to be real; I've followed up on all the ones I've mentioned and confirmed them... The book, fairly, does not conclude that the lab-leak hypothesis is definitely true, merely that it is highly possible, and I agree.
- Honigsbaum, Mark (15 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review – Was Covid-19 really made in China?". The Guardian. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
There is just one problem: nowhere do they present proof that Sars-CoV-2 was manufactured.
- Poole, Steven (9 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review: pushes the lab-leak theory behind Covid too hard". The Telegraph. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
Viral ... pretends to be agnostic between the two while pimping the lab-leak scenario for all it’s worth... This book shows well how coronaviruses spill over naturally between species all the time... One can agree ... with the book’s passionate argument for closer regulation of ... ‘gain-of-function research’.
- Ebben, Paula (16 November 2021). "MIT Scientist Discusses the Importance of Finding the Source of the COVID Pandemic". CBS Boston. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
The book makes the case for both possibilities: natural transfer of the virus from bats to mammals and then to humans, or from some sort of lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that spread to the community.
- Weissmueller, Zach (18 November 2021). "Was It a Lab Leak? The Mysterious Origin of COVID-19". Reason. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
Ridley [said], ‘Xi Jinping being a much more dictatorial and authoritarian ruler than his immediate predecessors, by 2019 it was more and more the case that scientists in laboratories ... were under orders not to communicate with the outside world about things that the regime might not want them to.’
- Hanage, William (14 November 2021). "Amid a muddled quest for covid's source, a crucial message". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
As Chan and Ridley state toward the end of the book, ‘Unfortunately, there are no enforceable international biosafety and biosecurity standards.’ Preach. This is an extremely important message that should not be lost amid the political firestorm over origins.'
- Hiltzik, Michael (15 November 2021). "These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses". Los Angeles Times. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
The Chinese are secretive about all things... The shame of ‘Viral’ is that it promotes a groundless theory that threatens to lead policymakers, as well as members of the public, down the wrong road, to humankind’s enduring detriment.
- Chivers, Tom (20 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review — Did Covid-19 leak from a Chinese lab?". The Times. Diakses tanggal 10 December 2021.
- ^ O'Neal, Adam (26 November 2021). "What Happened in Wuhan?". Wall Street Journal.
In ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,’ molecular biologist Alina Chan and author Matt Ridley assemble perhaps the most comprehensive case for the lab-leak theory currently available.
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