You can throw your fear-driven conjecture about the deadly COVID-19 disease just by talking to Dr. Kendra Phelps.
Thanks to the upcoming documentary “Virus Hunters,” which premieres on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. on National Geographic, I recently had a most enlightening Zoom chat with the pretty bat surveillance specialist about zoonotic viruses (those that jump from animals to humans), bats (one of her fields of expertise) and the Philippines as a potential hotspot for another disease outbreak.
To get the “elephant in the room” out of the way, I asked Kendra about the conspiracy theory being floated around that the coronavirus was developed in a laboratory in China. Is there a…
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