* Scientific journal admits it ‘was an error on our part’ to erroneously link the pathogen with Wuhan and China
* ‘It would be tragic if stigma, fuelled by the coronavirus, led Asia’s young people to retreat from international campuses,’ it says
British scientific journal Nature has apologised for associating Covid-19 with China in its reporting, saying that early coverage of the global health crisis by itself and other media had led to racist attacks on people of Asian descent around the world.
In an article published on Tuesday, the publication said that the World Health Organisation’s announcement on February 11 that the official name for the pneumonia-like virus would be Covid-19 had been an implicit reminder to “those who had erroneously been associating the virus with Wuhan and with China in their news coverage – including Nature”.
“That we did so was an error on our part, for which we take responsibility and apologise,” it said.
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WNU Editor: This is not the first time that Nature has rushed to the defense of China. Nature magazine has been pushing back on claims that the Covid-19 coronavirus was engineered in China's Wuhan secret National Biosafety Lab .... The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 (Nature Magazine). Many are also accusing Nature magazine's parent company of censoring articles that China disapproves of .... ‘An Unacceptable Breach of Trust’ (Inside Higher Ed).
Update: For more on how did the Covid-19 coronavirus come into being, go here .... Did China Unleash A Bio-Weapon Upon The World? (April 5, 2020).
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