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Kaushik Basu

Kaushik Basu

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Kaushik Basu, a former chief economist of the World Bank and chief economic adviser to the Government of India, is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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    Did US Biotechnology Help to Create COVID-19?

    Neil L. Harrison & Jeffrey D. Sachs

    Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the search for the origins of the virus has been hampered by politics. But there must be a full investigation into the possibility that the virus emerged from a laboratory using US-developed techniques.

     call for an investigation into research practices that could have led to the coronavirus's emergence in China.
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