Blame

When the world is engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic, three scientists who long predicted its arrival must battle not only the virus but also a wave of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political blame that threatens to eclipse the truth. They are:

Zhengli Shi, head of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

Peter Daszak, British zoologist and president of EcoHealth Alliance, and

Linfa Wang, also known as Batman, a professor in zoonotic diseases and bat immunology and former Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

This is their story. Part investigation, part thriller, Blame investigates the relationship between science, politics and the media.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Followed by a discussion with Niamh Griffin, Health Correspondent at the Irish Examiner, and

Dr Kelly Dean, Principal Investigator in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at University College Cork.

This screening is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Ireland.