Claim: An old Chinese news story from 2013 reveals coronaviruses can be human-made.
Fact-check: Misleading: This 2013 article refers to MERS, not COVID-19, and did not say coronaviruses are human-made | annie lab
Verdict: misleading. the virus that the news article referred to was mers-cov, not covid-19 virus. the article has nothing to do with the current covid-19 pandemic. also, the study mentioned in the news does not conclude coronaviruses can be human-made.
Organisation: annie lab
Author: Gigi Tang 鄧曉賢
Date published: 2021-06-29T08:15:47