March
19, 2024
The
U.S. government funded and supported a program of dangerous laboratory research
that may have resulted in the creation and accidental laboratory release of
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gravediggers
bury the body of a man suspected of having died of Covid-19 in the
cemetery of Vila Alpina, east side of São Paulo, Brazil, on April 3,
2020. That morning alone, five similar burials were held while about 150
graves were open in expectation of more victims of the new coronavirus.
(Gustavo Basso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)