https://www.scmp.com/rss/509465/feed Charles Schmidt is a recipient of the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award. His work has appeared in Science, Nature Biotechnology, Scientific American, Discover Magazine and The Washington Post, among other publications. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, caught his eye. It was early January 2020, and Petrovsky, an immunologist, was on holiday in Keystone, Colorado, which is where he goes most years with his family to flee the searingly hot summers at home in South Australia. He was soon struck by an odd discrepancy in how the pneumonia cases were portrayed. Chinese authorities and... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3126760/could-coronavirus-have-come-lab-theory-was-too?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3126760/could-coronavirus-have-come-lab-theory-was-too?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:15:06 +0000