The virus has spread worldwide, infecting millions and causing incredible damage to public health and the economy. As of July 6, the coronavirus has infected 11,366,145 worldwide. It has also killed 532,644, according to John Hopkins University. Dr. Tom Jefferson, a senior associate tutor at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) in Oxford, believes that COVID-19 may have arisen due to environmental conditions. Dr. Jefferson believes that viruses often remain dormant throughout the world and emerge and disappear depending on the conditions of viral spread.
He added that he was skeptical that a case of the virus in the Falkland Islands came from China.
Speaking to the Telegraph, he said: “Where did SARS 1 go? It just disappeared, so we have to think about these things.
“We need to start investigating the ecology of the virus, understand how it originates and mutates.”
The first SARS outbreak suddenly stopped, was discovered in 2002 and was declared in July 2003 by the World Health Organization.
Its total death toll was 8,096, which COVID-19 exceeded on February 9.
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Oxford scientist suggested coronavirus did not start in China (Image: GETTY)
Dr. Tom Jefferson believes that the virus remains dormant and spreads due to changes in the environment. (Image: PA)
Dr. Jefferson continued: “I think the virus was already here, here it means everywhere.
“We may be seeing a latent virus that has been activated by environmental conditions.
“There was a case in the Falkland Islands in early February.
“Now where did that come from? There was a cruise ship going from South Georgia to Buenos Aires, and the passengers were examined and then, on day eight, when they started sailing to the Weddell Sea, they got the first case.
“Was it in thawed and activated prepared foods? “
Global cases of coronavirus as of July 5 (Image: Express)
UK coronavirus cases as of July 5 (Image: Express)
Jefferson added: “Strange things like this happened with the Spanish flu.
“In 1918, about 30 percent of Western Samoa’s population died of the Spanish flu, and they had had no communication with the outside world.
“The explanation for this could only be that these agents are not going anywhere.”
“They are always here and something turns them on, maybe human density or environmental conditions, and this is what we should be looking for.”
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Both Dr. Jefferson and Professor Car Henegehan wrote in the Telegraph calling for in-depth investigation into how the virus spreads through meat and food packing plants, as well as in shared toilets, which they believe could reveal information. important about new transmission routes.
Dr. Jefferson said: “We are doing a live review, extracting the environmental conditions, the ecology of these viruses that has been very little studied.
“There is a great deal of evidence that large amounts of the virus are in wastewater throughout the site, and an increasing amount of evidence that there is faecal transmission.”
“There is a high concentration where the wastewater is four degrees, which is the ideal temperature for it to stabilize and presumably activate.
“And meat packing plants are often at four degrees.”
Follow Spanish virologists who discover traces of coronavirus in wastewater collected in March 2019. (Image: PA)
Italian scientists also found the virus in the wastewater of Milan and Turin since mid-December. (Image: PA)
Dr. Jefferson concludes, “These clusters of isolated meat packaging and sprouts do not fit respiratory theory, but people who have not washed their hands properly.”
“These outbreaks should be properly investigated with people on the ground one by one.”
Follow Spanish virologists who discover traces of coronavirus in wastewater collected in March 2019.
Italian scientists also found the virus in the wastewater of Milan and Turin since mid-December.
It is a major break from the prevailing notion among scientists that the virus emerged in Wuhan, China, and then spread.
