Sikandar Azam, PhD,vMD 🇵🇰🇯🇵
sikandarazam.bsky.social
Sikandar Azam, PhD,vMD 🇵🇰🇯🇵
@sikandarazam.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Infectious Diseases | Respiratory Viruses 🌬 | Evolution & Transmission | Phylodynamics & Epidemiology 🌐 | Bayesian Inference 🦠🧬🧮 Tohoku University Japan
Reposted by Sikandar Azam, PhD,vMD 🇵🇰🇯🇵
Our understanding of the origin of COVID-19 is increasingly being polluted by conspiracy theories. Many, presented in OpEds in places like the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.

It's time to drop the nonsense and refocus on the science - it's long overdue and the data is in.

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/31/h...
How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic | CNN
The public discourse around the origin of the pandemic has increasingly been shaped by political agendas and conspiratorial narratives. Some of this has vilified experts who have studied this question...
edition.cnn.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM