Metzl is currently a member of the World Health Organization’s advisory committee on developing global standards for governance and oversight of human genome editing as well as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a liberal think tank involved in foreign affairs.
On April 16, 2020, Metzl published an article in which he asserted “the most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis is an accidental leak from one of the Chinese virology institutes in Wuhan.”
Sources:
- February 3, 2021. Elizabeth Stauffer. “WHO Adviser: ‘85% Chance’ COVID Came from Lab.” The Western Journal.
https://www.westernjournal.com/adviser-85-sure-covid-came-lab/.
News. - “Jamie Metzl | Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Expert, Sci-Fi Novelist.”
https://jamiemetzl.com/.
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