Coronavirus He has been arrested and there are many theories of where could arise the pandemic COVID-19
Reuters
Tonte the expansion of the coronavirus in the world, the work for the finding of a possible vaccine continue to forced marches, and all research is still pointing to the same direction: how did the COVID-19, the virus that has already infected more than a million people in the world and continues to add more losses of lives.
The first reports indicated that the COVID-19 appeared at a food market of the city of Wuhan (China) for a bat. However, there are theories conspiradoras that point to the american scientist, Charles Lieber as the manager to create and spread the virus.
The rumor puts the scientific, of 60 years, have created the coronavirus, and he was sold to China. In the last hours is circulating a video in the nets on his arrest for being responsible for the spread of the coronavirus, but it is a false information. This expert in nanotechnology has been arrested, but has nothing to do with the COVID-19. However, there are those who say that Charles Lieber it is a spy chinese and that with the creation of this virus was destabilize the united States.
Charles Lieber he was the director of the department of chemical biology of the Harvard University, specialized in nanoscience between the years 1991 and 2011. In 2013 he became a ‘Scientist, Strategic Technology University of Wuhan (WUT) participating in the program ‘Thousand Talents Program’ (The Plan of Thousand Talents), one of the plans of recruitment of foreign researchers in a hidden way. However, in 2018, Lieber admitted that I never participated in that Plan.
To Lieber he is accused of lying about its links with the chinese government, which funded his research in the field of nanotechnology. The office american points out that it would have participated in the ‘Plan of Thousand Talents’ carried out in China, whose purpose was to recruit foreign researchers while you were receiving federal funds americans for their studies.
‘The New York Times’ published the american scientist received each month up to $ 50,000 as salary and 150,000 per year in quality costs on the part of the University of Wuhan. Also received a million and a half dollars the chinese university and the Government of Beijing to build a laboratory in Wuhan. At the same time, his research team at Harvard had received 15 million from the National Institute of american Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense since the year 2008.
His arrest by alleged theft of intellectual property is part of the operating american of chinese scientists working in the universities of the united States or are visiting the country, but not by the creation of a virus. Today it is not confirmed if the origin of the coronavirus whether natural or human, although the investigations point to the first.
