The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• ² University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ³ Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
• ⁷ Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹¹ University of Pittsburgh, Center for Vaccine Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹² Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
• ¹³ Oregon Health and Science University, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Beaverton, Oregon, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Institute for Molecular Virology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• ¹⁷ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ¹⁹ Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• ²² The Ohio State University, Center for Retrovirus Research and Infectious Disease Institute, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• ²³ Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• ²⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ²⁵ Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.
• ²⁶ Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
• ²⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ²⁸ University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• ²⁹ University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine, Saskatoon, Canada.
• ³⁰ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• ³² Oregon State University, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
• ³³ Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
• ³⁴ Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.