Christian Drosten is defending himself legally against a Hamburg professor and the magazine “Cicero”. It’s about the accusation that he misled the public about the origin of the corona virus. Report of a rumour.
On the morning of February 1, 2020, it is a Saturday, the head of virology at the Charité University Clinic in Berlin, Christian Drosten, a surprise call. On the phone is Jeremy Farrar, the professor of tropical medicine and Director of the “Wellcome Trust”, one of the world’s largest health foundations. Farrar is an institution in the health scene, now he sounds a little breathless. There are indications that the virus that has just been discovered does not come from nature at all. It could have been artificially made. Farrar is aware of an e-mail recently written by the Danish-American molecular biologist Kristian Andersen: Andersen and his colleagues believe that a small part of the genome is “incompatible with the expectations of evolutionary theory”. Someone must have lent a hand there. The suspicion is outrageous.