Curious Coincidence
This is a detective story that’s unsolved. Hosted by investigative reporter Antonio Regalado, Curious Coincidence dives into the mysterious origins of Covid-19 by examining the genome of the virus, the labs doing sensitive research on dangerous pathogens, and questions of whether a lab accident may have touched off a global pandemic.
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This is a detective story that’s unsolved. Hosted by investigative reporter Antonio Regalado, Curious Coincidence dives into the mysterious origins of Covid-19 by examining the genome of the virus, the labs doing sensitive research on dangerous pathogens, and questions of whether a lab accident may have touched off a global pandemic.
A five part investigation from MIT Technology Review.
Why we need to find the truth, and the “curious coincidence” that set off a battle over covid-19’s origin.
We Meet:
Peter Ben Embarek, WHO program manager and covid-19 origins mission leader
Jesse Bloom, virologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Alina Chan, postdoc, Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard
Natasha Loder, health policy editor with The Economist
Links:
On Finding Answers, by Natasha Loder on Substack
A group of self-appointed online investigators decide to investigate a Chinese lab. Their findings only deepen doubts.
We meet:
The Seeker, internet sleuth
Rowan Jacobsen, journalist
Links:
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy, MIT Technology Review
Credits:
Curious Coincidence was produced as part of MIT Technology Review's Pandemic Technology Project, which is supported in part by a grant from The Rock...
Lab accidents have caused disease outbreaks before, and accidents are more common - and kept more secret - than you think.
We Meet:
Alison Young, journalism professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and associate professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Links:
Biolabs in your backyard, USA Today
Scientists zero in on a market in the city of Wuhan as the place the pandemic started. But information on China’s wild-animal trade is hard to uncover.
We Meet:
Michael Standaert, freelance journalist based in China
Alex Crits-Christoph, bioinformatician, Johns Hopkins University
Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser
Ho-fung Hung, political economist, Johns Hopkins University
Links:
Is some knowledge too dangerous to possess? Covid-19 has put cutting-edge research on pandemic germs under the spotlight.
We Meet:
Rowan Jacobsen, journalist
Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and associate professor
Kevin Esvelt, professor and head of Sculpting Evolution Group, MIT Media Lab
Links:
Senator Paul and Dr. Fauci Clash Over Research Funding of Wuhan Lab, C-SPAN
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