Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton has repeated an unfounded conspiracy theory that has spread from the small town of China to right-wing media in the United States: the new coronavirus originates from a biochemical laboratory in high security in Wuhan, China. city at the center of the epidemic.
Cotton suggested in a Sunday television interview on Fox News that a lack of information about the origins of the virus, which causes COVID-19 disease, raised more questions than answers.
“We don’t know where it came from, and we have to get to the bottom of it,” Cotton said on Sunday Morning Futures. He then raised the possibility that the virus came from a “super level 4 biosafety laboratory”. These laboratories are used for research into potentially fatal infectious diseases.
“Now we have no evidence that this disease originated there, but due to the duplicity and dishonesty of China from the start, we should at least ask the question to see what the evidence says , and China is not currently providing evidence on this issue “at all,” he added.
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