COVID-19: Weapon, accident or an administration gone batty?

by Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D. and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.  For a moment, let’s suppose that the novel coronavirus was produced by a lab in Wuhan as a biological weapon, as some in the Trump Administration have alleged. In that fictional scenario, we have nothing to fear from utterly inept Chinese military planners:  They’d have developed a malign microbe that strikes mainly at old and sick people, not the healthy, young people who fight wars and power economies. Smart medical warriors all know that there are already bugs in nature that don’t require any engineering that target the strong and youthful. …
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