Did a Pandemic Really Begin in Wuhan?

Thomas Verduyn has written a startling, shocking essay for Panda that revisits Wuhan at the beginning of 2020.

We all recall the shock and awe delivered to us. A new kind of respiratory disease emerging from a ‘wet market’. People dying on the streets. Bodies piling up. Hospitals full.

And then a hard lockdown. And then a ringing endorsement from the WHO…