{"id":131,"date":"2025-09-16T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:00:24","slug":"mysteries-about-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/2025\/09\/16\/mysteries-about-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries about COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Laura K<\/strong><strong>ahn<\/strong> <em data-start=\"2051\" data-end=\"2099\">\u201cunpacks the mysteries of COVID-19\u2019s origins,\u201d<\/em> which refers to scientific uncertainties about exactly how SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans, <em data-start=\"2193\" data-end=\"2235\">a real and ongoing topic in epidemiology<\/em>. Scientists worldwide continue to debate the details of the pandemic\u2019s early evolution because direct evidence from the first weeks of late 2019 remains limited. Investigators consider various possibilities, including natural spillover from wildlife and other hypotheses, but <em data-start=\"2510\" data-end=\"2553\">no definitive conclusion has been reached<\/em>. While Dr. Kahn\u2019s book contributes to this scholarly discussion, it <em data-start=\"2622\" data-end=\"2669\">does not promote fringe conspiracy narratives, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/meetings-events\/meetings\/\"><strong>please join us at our October meeting<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1159 Annandale is pleased to have Dr. Laura H. Kahn, a credentialed public health expert, not a conspiracy theorist, whose work focuses on zoonotic diseases (infections that spread from animals to humans), public health policy, and the One Health approach, which looks at the link between human, animal, and environmental health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2025\/12\/2025-Laura-Kahn.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}