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== COVID-19 origins ==
== COVID-19 origins ==
{{main|Investigations into the origin of COVID-19|COVID-19 lab leak theory}}
{{main|Investigations into the origin of COVID-19|COVID-19 lab leak theory}}
Chan became known during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] when she published a [[preprint]] with two Broad Institute colleagues in May of 2020, arguing that the virus was "pre-adapted" offering several theories as to why. One theory offered was a [[Laboratory safety|lab leak]], saying that the chance that a "non-engineered virus" could have "adapted to humans while being studied in a laboratory" and that it "should be considered, regardless of how likely or unlikely." The preprint was not formally accepted by a [[scientific journal]] but received a significant reception in the [[popular press]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Regalado |first1=Antonio |title=They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/25/1027140/lab-leak-alina-chan/ |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref name=BostonMag-2020-09>{{cite magazine |last1=Jacobsen |first1=Rowan |author-link=Rowan Jacobsen|title=Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab? |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/ |work=[[Boston Magazine]] |date=9 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Mary |title=A Different Theory of COVID-19’s Origin |url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/covid-lab-leak-theory-pandemic-research.html |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=Slate Magazine |date=13 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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Chan became known during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] for co-authoring [[preprint]]s and op-eds claiming the virus was "pre-adapted" to humans and suggesting COVID-19 could have [[COVID-19 lab leak theory|escaped from a laboratory]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Regalado |first1=Antonio |title=They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/25/1027140/lab-leak-alina-chan/ |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Mary |title=A Different Theory of COVID-19’s Origin |url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/covid-lab-leak-theory-pandemic-research.html |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=Slate Magazine |date=13 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Chan wrote opinion pieces on the subject with science journalist [[Matt Ridley]] in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-needs-a-real-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-19-11610728316|title=The World Needs a Real Investigation Into the Origins of Covid-19|first1=Alina|last1=Chan|first2=Matt|last2=Ridley|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=January 15, 2021|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/06/did-covid-19-virus-really-escape-wuhan-lab/|title=Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?|first1=Matt|last1=Ridley|first2=Alina|last2=Chan|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=February 6, 2021|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> Chan later signed open letters together with other scientists published in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'', calling for full and unrestricted international forensic [[Investigations into the origin of COVID-19|investigations into all possible origins of the virus]].<ref>https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20LETTER%20FINAL%20030421%20(1).pdf</ref><ref>https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/virus-inquiries-pandemic-origins/d7a097a4c758a65a/full.pdf</ref> Chan was one of 18 scientists who signed a letter in ''[[Science Magazine]]'' calling again for a credible investigation into the origins of the virus.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1|title=Investigate the origins of COVID-19|first1=Jesse D.|last1=Bloom|first2=Yujia Alina|last2=Chan|first3=Ralph S.|last3=Baric|first4=Pamela J.|last4=Bjorkman|first5=Sarah|last5=Cobey|first6=Benjamin E.|last6=Deverman|first7=David N.|last7=Fisman|first8=Ravindra|last8=Gupta|first9=Akiko|last9=Iwasaki|first10=Marc|last10=Lipsitch|first11=Ruslan|last11=Medzhitov|first12=Richard A.|last12=Neher|first13=Rasmus|last13=Nielsen|first14=Nick|last14=Patterson|first15=Tim|last15=Stearns|first16=Erik van|last16=Nimwegen|first17=Michael|last17=Worobey|first18=David A.|last18=Relman|date=May 14, 2021|journal=Science|volume=372|issue=6543|pages=694|via=science.sciencemag.org|doi=10.1126/science.abj0016|pmid=33986172|bibcode=2021Sci...372..694B|s2cid=234487267}}</ref> The letter called for a "proper investigation" into "both natural and laboratory spillovers" and was widely covered in the press and brought the debate on the possible lab origins of the virus into the mainstream.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/could-a-lab-leak-really-be-to-blame-for-covid19/news-story/c0e9f8e4272b3f9845a2f6409d266db8|archiveurl=http://archive.today/20210618035659/https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/could-a-lab-leak-really-be-to-blame-for-covid19/news-story/c0e9f8e4272b3f9845a2f6409d266db8|url-status=dead|first=Tom|last=Whipple|title=Could a lab leak really be to blame for Covid-19?|date=27 May 2021|work=[[The Australian]]|archive-date=2021-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/covid-lab-leak-theory-opinions-everywhere.html|title=Just Because We're Talking About the Lab Leak Theory Doesn't Mean It's Come True|first=Shannon|last=Palus|date=May 29, 2021|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/28/1001319014/many-scientists-still-think-the-coronavirus-came-from-nature|title=Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature|website=NPR.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory-science-scientists-rcna1191|title=The science around the lab leak theory hasn't changed. But here's why some scientists have.|website=NBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/559050-harvard-scientist-says-trump-hatred-motivated|title=Harvard scientist says Trump hatred motivated experts who denied Wuhan lab leak theory|first=Adam|last=Barnes|date=June 17, 2021|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How It Started, How It's Going |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-it-started-how-its-going |website=[[On the Media]] |publisher=WNYC Studios |language=en |date=May 21, 2021}}</ref>


In January and February 2021, Chan wrote two [[op-ed]]s with [[science journalist]] [[Matt Ridley]] in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', criticising the [[WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2]] for not investigaitng.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-needs-a-real-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-19-11610728316|title=The World Needs a Real Investigation Into the Origins of Covid-19|first1=Alina|last1=Chan|first2=Matt|last2=Ridley|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=January 15, 2021|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/06/did-covid-19-virus-really-escape-wuhan-lab/|title=Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?|first1=Matt|last1=Ridley|first2=Alina|last2=Chan|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=February 6, 2021|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
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Chan and Ridley authored a book entitled ''Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19'', published by HarperCollins in November 2021.<ref name="MIT-TechReview-2021-06"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Honigsbaum|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Honigsbaum|date=2021-11-15|title=Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review – was Covid-19 really made in China?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/15/viral-by-alina-chan-and-matt-ridley-review-was-covid-19-really-made-in-china|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-17|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hiltzik|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Hiltzik|date=2021-11-15|title=These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-15/these-authors-wanted-to-promote-the-lab-leak-theory-of-covids-origin-instead-they-exposed-its-weaknesses|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-17|website=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

Chan later signed two open letters together with other scientists published in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'', calling for full and unrestricted international forensic [[Investigations into the origin of COVID-19|investigations into all possible origins of the virus]].<ref>https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20LETTER%20FINAL%20030421%20(1).pdf</ref><ref>https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/virus-inquiries-pandemic-origins/d7a097a4c758a65a/full.pdf</ref>

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Chan was one of 18 scientists who signed a letter in ''[[Science Magazine]]'' calling again for a credible investigation into the origins of the virus.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1|title=Investigate the origins of COVID-19|first1=Jesse D.|last1=Bloom|first2=Yujia Alina|last2=Chan|first3=Ralph S.|last3=Baric|first4=Pamela J.|last4=Bjorkman|first5=Sarah|last5=Cobey|first6=Benjamin E.|last6=Deverman|first7=David N.|last7=Fisman|first8=Ravindra|last8=Gupta|first9=Akiko|last9=Iwasaki|first10=Marc|last10=Lipsitch|first11=Ruslan|last11=Medzhitov|first12=Richard A.|last12=Neher|first13=Rasmus|last13=Nielsen|first14=Nick|last14=Patterson|first15=Tim|last15=Stearns|first16=Erik van|last16=Nimwegen|first17=Michael|last17=Worobey|first18=David A.|last18=Relman|date=May 14, 2021|journal=Science|volume=372|issue=6543|pages=694|via=science.sciencemag.org|doi=10.1126/science.abj0016|pmid=33986172|bibcode=2021Sci...372..694B|s2cid=234487267}}</ref> The letter called for a "proper investigation" into "both natural and laboratory spillovers" and was widely covered in the press and brought the debate on the possible lab origins of the virus into the mainstream.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/could-a-lab-leak-really-be-to-blame-for-covid19/news-story/c0e9f8e4272b3f9845a2f6409d266db8|archiveurl=http://archive.today/20210618035659/https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/could-a-lab-leak-really-be-to-blame-for-covid19/news-story/c0e9f8e4272b3f9845a2f6409d266db8|url-status=dead|first=Tom|last=Whipple|title=Could a lab leak really be to blame for Covid-19?|date=27 May 2021|work=[[The Australian]]|archive-date=2021-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/covid-lab-leak-theory-opinions-everywhere.html|title=Just Because We're Talking About the Lab Leak Theory Doesn't Mean It's Come True|first=Shannon|last=Palus|date=May 29, 2021|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/28/1001319014/many-scientists-still-think-the-coronavirus-came-from-nature|title=Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature|website=NPR.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory-science-scientists-rcna1191|title=The science around the lab leak theory hasn't changed. But here's why some scientists have.|website=NBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/559050-harvard-scientist-says-trump-hatred-motivated|title=Harvard scientist says Trump hatred motivated experts who denied Wuhan lab leak theory|first=Adam|last=Barnes|date=June 17, 2021|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How It Started, How It's Going |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-it-started-how-its-going |website=[[On the Media]] |publisher=WNYC Studios |language=en |date=May 21, 2021}}</ref>

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Chan and Ridley authored a book entitled ''[[Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19]]'', published by [[HarperCollins]] in November 2021.<ref name="MIT-TechReview-2021-06"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Honigsbaum|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Honigsbaum|date=2021-11-15|title=Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review – was Covid-19 really made in China?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/15/viral-by-alina-chan-and-matt-ridley-review-was-covid-19-really-made-in-china|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-17|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hiltzik|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Hiltzik|date=2021-11-15|title=These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-15/these-authors-wanted-to-promote-the-lab-leak-theory-of-covids-origin-instead-they-exposed-its-weaknesses|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-17|website=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref>


Chan participated in a debate on COVID-19 origins organized by ''[[Science magazine]]'', which included scientists [[Linfa Wang]], [[Michael Worobey]], and [[Jesse Bloom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=‘Lab-leak’ and natural origin proponents face off—civilly—in forum on pandemic origins |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/lab-leak-and-natural-origin-proponents-face-civilly-forum-pandemic-origins |website=www.science.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Karel |first1=Daniel |title="Lab leak" or natural spillover? Leading scientists debate COVID-19 origins |url=https://www.salon.com/2021/10/09/lab-leak-or-natural-spillover-leading-scientists-debate-19s-origins/ |access-date=24 November 2021 |work=Salon |date=9 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nast |first1=Condé |title=The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory |url=https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory |access-date=24 November 2021 |work=The New Yorker |date=12 October 2021}}</ref>
Chan participated in a debate on COVID-19 origins organized by ''[[Science magazine]]'', which included scientists [[Linfa Wang]], [[Michael Worobey]], and [[Jesse Bloom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=‘Lab-leak’ and natural origin proponents face off—civilly—in forum on pandemic origins |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/lab-leak-and-natural-origin-proponents-face-civilly-forum-pandemic-origins |website=www.science.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Karel |first1=Daniel |title="Lab leak" or natural spillover? Leading scientists debate COVID-19 origins |url=https://www.salon.com/2021/10/09/lab-leak-or-natural-spillover-leading-scientists-debate-19s-origins/ |access-date=24 November 2021 |work=Salon |date=9 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nast |first1=Condé |title=The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory |url=https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory |access-date=24 November 2021 |work=The New Yorker |date=12 October 2021}}</ref>

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Alina Chan
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology, cell engineering, gene therapy
InstitutionsBroad Institute

Alina Chan is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is a postdoctoral fellow. During the COVID-19 pandemic she became known for questioning the prevailing consensus regarding the origins of the virus and arguing that a laboratory escape scenario should be investigated.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Chan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Singaporean parents. Her family returned to Singapore shortly after, where she grew up. She returned to Canada after high school to study biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of British Columbia, where she earned a PhD.[1] She then joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral scholar, later joining the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.[1][2]

COVID-19 origins

Main articles: Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and COVID-19 lab leak theory

Chan became known during the COVID-19 pandemic when she published a preprint with two Broad Institute colleagues in May of 2020, arguing that the virus was "pre-adapted" offering several theories as to why. One theory offered was a lab leak, saying that the chance that a "non-engineered virus" could have "adapted to humans while being studied in a laboratory" and that it "should be considered, regardless of how likely or unlikely." The preprint was not formally accepted by a scientific journal but received a significant reception in the popular press.[5][3][6]

In January and February 2021, Chan wrote two op-eds with science journalist Matt Ridley in the Wall Street Journal and in The Daily Telegraph, criticising the WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2 for not investigaitng.[7][8]

Chan later signed two open letters together with other scientists published in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, calling for full and unrestricted international forensic investigations into all possible origins of the virus.[9][10]

Chan was one of 18 scientists who signed a letter in Science Magazine calling again for a credible investigation into the origins of the virus.[11] The letter called for a "proper investigation" into "both natural and laboratory spillovers" and was widely covered in the press and brought the debate on the possible lab origins of the virus into the mainstream.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

Chan and Ridley authored a book entitled Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, published by HarperCollins in November 2021.[2][18][19]

Chan participated in a debate on COVID-19 origins organized by Science magazine, which included scientists Linfa Wang, Michael Worobey, and Jesse Bloom.[20][21][22]

References

  1. ^ a b c Rabin, Roni Caryn (24 August 2021). "Caught in the Crossfire over Covid's Origins". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b c Regalado, Antonio (25 June 2021). "They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab". MIT Technology Review.
  3. ^ a b Jacobsen, Rowan (9 September 2020). "Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?". Boston Magazine.
  4. ^ Harris, Mary (13 April 2021). "A Different Theory of COVID-19's Origin". Slate Magazine.
  5. ^ Regalado, Antonio. "They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  6. ^ Harris, Mary (13 April 2021). "A Different Theory of COVID-19's Origin". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  7. ^ Chan, Alina; Ridley, Matt (January 15, 2021). "The World Needs a Real Investigation Into the Origins of Covid-19". Wall Street Journal – via www.wsj.com.
  8. ^ Ridley, Matt; Chan, Alina (February 6, 2021). "Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  9. ^ https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20LETTER%20FINAL%20030421%20(1).pdf
  10. ^ https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/virus-inquiries-pandemic-origins/d7a097a4c758a65a/full.pdf
  11. ^ Bloom, Jesse D.; Chan, Yujia Alina; Baric, Ralph S.; Bjorkman, Pamela J.; Cobey, Sarah; Deverman, Benjamin E.; Fisman, David N.; Gupta, Ravindra; Iwasaki, Akiko; Lipsitch, Marc; Medzhitov, Ruslan; Neher, Richard A.; Nielsen, Rasmus; Patterson, Nick; Stearns, Tim; Nimwegen, Erik van; Worobey, Michael; Relman, David A. (May 14, 2021). "Investigate the origins of COVID-19". Science. 372 (6543): 694. Bibcode:2021Sci...372..694B. doi:10.1126/science.abj0016. PMID 33986172. S2CID 234487267 – via science.sciencemag.org.
  12. ^ Whipple, Tom (27 May 2021). "Could a lab leak really be to blame for Covid-19?". The Australian. Archived from the original on 2021-06-18.
  13. ^ Palus, Shannon (May 29, 2021). "Just Because We're Talking About the Lab Leak Theory Doesn't Mean It's Come True". Slate Magazine.
  14. ^ "Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature". NPR.org.
  15. ^ "The science around the lab leak theory hasn't changed. But here's why some scientists have". NBC News.
  16. ^ Barnes, Adam (June 17, 2021). "Harvard scientist says Trump hatred motivated experts who denied Wuhan lab leak theory". The Hill.
  17. ^ "How It Started, How It's Going". On the Media. WNYC Studios. May 21, 2021.
  18. ^ Honigsbaum, Mark (2021-11-15). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review – was Covid-19 really made in China?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Hiltzik, Michael (2021-11-15). "These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "'Lab-leak' and natural origin proponents face off—civilly—in forum on pandemic origins". www.science.org.
  21. ^ Karel, Daniel (9 October 2021). ""Lab leak" or natural spillover? Leading scientists debate COVID-19 origins". Salon. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  22. ^ Nast, Condé (12 October 2021). "The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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