Despite the weight of evidence indicating a natural transmission of COVID-19, the U.S. government won’t let go of the conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a lab. The White House recently said it was "deeply disappointed" in China's decision to reject a proposal to have the WHO return to Wuhan for a second-phase study into the coronavirus origins. What progress has been made on COVID origin-tracing? And why is scientific work now so highly politicized?

To talk more about the origin-tracing of COVID-19, we've invited Einar Tangen, Independent Current Affairs Commentator; Dr. Alan Whiteside, OBE, CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy; and Wu Zhiwei, Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Reseach, Medical School of Nanjing University.