Covid-19: How a group of amateur investigators pushed the lab-leak theory
- Posted on February 18, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Covid-19: How a group of amateur investigators pushed the lab-leak theory

For the past five years, DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in a Chinese laboratory. Once branded as conspiracy theorists, they now have the attention of the World Health Organization and the US government.