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Since August, Chinese state media and officials have propagated a wave of disinformation suggesting that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic could have been engineered in the United States.It’s part of a continuing attempt to distract from questions about why the virus was first detected in China, and whether it could have originated naturally there or from Chinese biolabs in Wuhan.The new push resurrects unsupported innuendo that the novel coronavirus may have originated from the U.S. Army’s biolab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. But it now goes further, casting doubt on the work of a top coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Ralph Baric, a member of the United States’ National Academy of Sciences, has researched coronaviruses for more than 30 years. According to his UNC profile page, some of Baric’s research has been used to develop new drugs to treat deadly coronavirus infections like COVID-19.Over the years, the profile says, Baric has warned that the emerging coronaviruses represent a significant and ongoing global health threat
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