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COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Exposes Lack of Checks on 'Fact-Checkers'

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 3. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

By Marisa Herman | Wednesday, 26 May 2021 07:05 AM EDT

For the past year, anyone who suggested the COVID-19 virus wreaking havoc on humanity originated anywhere except in a bat – or perhaps an “intermediate host” like a pangolin – was ridiculed, shouted down, and completely dismissed by the Internet’s army of so-called “fact-checkers.”

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