Radio & television
WUR professor Wim van der Poel in Dutch broadcast program ‘Met het oog op Morgen’
The Dutch radioprogram ‘Met het oog op Morgen’ asked Wim van der Poel, professor of Zoonotic and Emerging diseases at Wageningen University & Research, to comment on the hearings of Anthony Fauci in the US Senate that took place on 3 June. Fauci was again questioned by the Senate committee about the corona pandemic.
At the time of the corona pandemic, Fauci was United States’ medical adviser to the White House. One of the components of the questioning that took place on 3 June was again the suspicion that the coronavirus may have escaped from a laboratory in China. US researchers, under the responsibility of Fauci, may have contributed to this. According to WUR professor Van der Poel, Fauci was able to refute this well during the interrogations and stuck to a factual response to the questions.
The WUR professor described in the radio interview that the origin of the coronavirus is still best explained by a relationship with Chinese markets where live animals are traded. ‘This can’t be proven with 100 percent certainty as we do not have samples that are conclusive about the situation before the pandemic’, explained the WUR professor.
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