Like blurry shapes in a swirling kaleidoscope that suddenly stops, three critical pieces of the pandemic puzzle came into focus this week.

First is the publication on 6 December of an explosive account of The Truth about Wuhan by Dr Andrew Huff, former vice president, from 2014 to 2016, of the EcoHealth Alliance (EA), the dodgy New York-based not-for-profit that funnelled millions of dollars from the US Department of Defense and Dr Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).