2026-04-24 18:45:15 UTC / 路透社
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2026年4月24日 UTC下午6:45 更新于1小时前
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2021年12月27日，美国纽约曼哈顿一家临时新冠检测点，民众排队接受新冠病毒检测。路透社/吉娜·穆恩 资料图
巴塞罗那4月24日路透电 — 顶级医学期刊《柳叶刀》总编辑理查德·霍顿周五在接受路透社采访时表示，该刊将拒绝为美国参议院新冠疫情溯源调查提供证据。
“我们收到了出席参议院听证会作证的请求，我们不会这么做，”霍顿在巴塞罗那举办的路透医药活动上告诉路透社记者。
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霍顿表示，该刊不会与“攻击我们这个时代顶尖科学家的政府”合作，他援引了唐纳德·特朗普政府对美国前顶级卫生官员安东尼·福奇的对待方式，福奇曾主导美国新冠疫情应对工作。
福奇此后一直面临威胁，还遭到特朗普和共和党同僚的抨击。特朗普去年取消了福奇的联邦安保保护措施。
霍顿今年2月曾撰文称，《柳叶刀》在2025年12月收到请求，要求提供2018年至2022年间所有与冠状病毒相关的记录，包括电子邮件、笔记和研究报告。据其网站报道，《科学》期刊也收到了同样的要求。
霍顿所指的是美国参议员兰德·保罗发起的调查，该调查一直在关注美国对中国武汉一家病毒学实验室的资助，武汉是2020年新冠疫情首次暴发的城市。保罗担任国土安全与政府事务委员会主席。
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保罗的办公室未立即回应置评请求。
“他们仍在纠结武汉以及2019年末当地发生的情况，”霍顿说道。
世界卫生组织和大多数科学家都认为，病毒从自然环境溢出是此次疫情最有可能的起源。由于缺乏来自中国的数据，相关调查一直受阻，但美国情报部门去年表示，实验室泄漏可能是疫情起因。
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Lancet medical journal declined US Senate COVID origins ask
2026-04-24 18:45:15 UTC / Reuters
By Jennifer Rigby and Bhanvi Satija
April 24, 2026 6:45 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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People queue for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a popup COVID-19 testing site in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 27, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
BARCELONA, April 24 (Reuters) – Leading medical journal The Lancet will decline a request to provide evidence for a U.S. Senate inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its editor-in-chief Richard Horton told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
“We have received a request to go and give evidence at a Senate inquiry, which we’re not going to do,” Horton told Reuters at the Reuters Pharma event in Barcelona.
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Horton said that the journal would not engage “with an administration that has attacked some of the foremost scientists of our age”, citing the treatment by President Donald Trump’s administration of a former top U.S. health official, Anthony Fauci, who led the country’s COVID-19 response.
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He has faced threats since then as well as the ire of Trump and fellow Republicans. Trump cancelled Fauci’s federal security protection last year.
Horton wrote in February that the Lancet had been asked in December 2025 to provide all records relating to coronaviruses from 2018 to 2022, including emails, notes and studies. The journal Science was asked the same thing, according to a story on its website.
Horton was referring to an inquiry by U.S. Senator Rand Paul, who has been looking into U.S. funding provided to a virology lab in Wuhan, China, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020. Paul chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Paul’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“They’re still perseverating over Wuhan and what took place there in the latter part of 2019,” Horton said.
The World Health Organization and most scientists say a spillover from nature is the most likely cause for the pandemic. Investigations have been hampered by a lack of data from China, but U.S. intelligence services said last year that a lab leak was probably the cause.
Reporting by Jennifer Rigby and Bhanvi Satija in Barcelona; Editing by David Gregorio
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