Did Covid-19 leak from a lab?
Episode description
Covid is back in the news - there is a new mutation of Omicron which is potentially more infectious than the last.
Some are sounding the alarm. We talk about whether you should be worried (spoiler -probably not). But while it's in the news we thought we'd examine a question long lurking at the sidelines of the Covid news story - where did it come from?
Is the lab leak theory increasingly credible? Plenty in Washington, including big elements of the Biden administration think so. And if it is - why are we not talking about it? What might be the biggest story of our time?
Lewis talks to a leading expert who sits on SAGE and a journalist who has done the running on the story from the very beginning.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Producers: Rory Symon and Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith