Wuhan: conspiracy theses

The role of the Asian giant as a focus of the coronavirus with Wuhan as ground zero, has inflamed the US president to such an extent that he has accused the

Chinese government to deliberately manufacture the virus to create the global health disaster.

On the other hand, his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and his foreign minister, Wang Yi, have confirmed that the United States is in fact the source of the virus.

A year after the outbreak of the disease in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, no conspiracy theses about the manufacture of the pathogen in a laboratory have been proven.

Last March, Luc Montagnier, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, declared for a television channel his hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 had been created by manipulating the H.I.V. virus in some way.

At the end of April Li-Meng, a Hong Kong virologist from the School of Public Health, arrived in the United States seeking political asylum on the grounds that she was being persecuted to death by the Chinese authorities as she knew "the truth" about the coronavirus.

The researcher gave interviews to many American media outlets claiming that it was "artificially created by the Chinese government" to harm the world and that both the Chinese authorities and the WHO "hid the fact that it could be transmitted from person to person".

Neither Montagnier, whose work has been disqualified by the international scientific community, nor Li-Meng have been able to prove that the technique exists in 2020 to create SARS-CoV-2 in a laboratory without leaving the trace of the cut and paste in its genetic code which, by the way, was shared by Chinese scientists to the WHO and from there to the rest of the scientific community in other countries to study it and achieve placebos and immunizations.

There are many suspicions surrounding the virus, which is also seen as open competition between the West and the East to be the first to obtain a 100 per cent safe, effective and efficient vaccine.

 With no logical evidence to the contrary, the pandemic that will be unleashed in 2020 seems just another piece in a competitive puzzle in which the sheet of power is at stake.

According to the IMF, despite the global economic disaster China will achieve 1.9 per cent growth and in 2021 will rebound to a GDP of 8.2 per cent, basically because it has been several years since the Asian giant returned to the path of eight per cent growth.

The opposite is true of the United States; its GDP will fall by nearly 4.3% in 2020, while several European economies will record the worst figures: Spain will fall -12.8%; Italy -10.6%; France -9.8%, the United Kingdom -9.8% and Germany -6%.

In a few more days we will reach 31 December. We can only celebrate that one year after Wuhan, thanks to 21st century science, in record time there are several vaccines being applied to the population: in Russia, Sputnik V and in China, others made with the human flu adenovirus; the American Pfizer being used in the United Kingdom with the great achievement of the German laboratory BioNTech with absolutely state-of-the-art immunisation.

Some, simpler ones, such as AstraZeneca's one with Oxford University, made from a chimpanzee's flu adenovirus, will start to be used in India; while in Mexico the plan for vaccination against COVID with Pfizer is announced as well as the United States, Canada, Israel, Japan and the EU.

Between curfews, new containment, rapid antigen and detection tests, limited family reunion protocols, mobility restrictions and the implementation of an emergency regulation for the use of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, the world is in the final month of the year with a surprise, as well as a new strain of the pathogen in the UK.

Without a doubt, this has been the year of science, which proved the capacity to have vaccines in record time; and it leaves us as an inheritance a light of hope, for soon defeating the virus that one day left Wuhan...