Apr 15, 2020 03:56 AM
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/04/13/bes...-lab-14712
EXCERPT: . . . As the weeks and months have gone by, however, circumstantial evidence is piling up that the virus actually came from the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory. Once again, it is not a biological weapon. Instead, it appears that Chinese scientists were studying a novel virus they found, and it accidentally infected a worker and "escaped" from the lab... (MORE - details)
Increasing confidence' China blamed coronavirus on wet market to deflect from Wuhan lab escape: Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...ape-report
EXCERPT: There is "increasing confidence" that China blamed a wet market in Wuhan to deflect how the novel coronavirus originated in a nearby government laboratory, according to a new report. [...] the breach came not as part of an effort to construct a bioweapon, but rather as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to show its abilities to study and fight viruses was comparable to those of the United States.
The unnamed sources were not identified, and it is not immediately clear whether they were intelligence officials or other members of the Trump administration. [...] they were briefed on China’s initial efforts to cover up the outbreak and had reviewed pertinent documents. One such source suggested this could be the “costliest government cover-up of all time.”
The report said the virus was first transmitted from bat to human, and “patient zero” was a lab employee who was accidentally infected before spreading the disease outside the lab. Records outlining initial reactions at the lab as well as early attempts to contain the virus are said to exist. Sources also characterized the World Health Organization as being part of a cover-up from the very beginning.
“Multiple sources are telling [...] that the United States now has high confidence that, while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus, it emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan, that, because of lax safety protocols, an intern was infected, who later infected her boyfriend, and then went to the wet market in Wuhan, where it then began to spread,” Roberts said.
[...] A Washington Post piece this week reported that two years ago, U.S. embassy officials in China raised concerns about biosecurity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s first biosafety level 4 lab, which researches infectious diseases, including coronaviruses from bats... (MORE - details)
EXCERPT: . . . As the weeks and months have gone by, however, circumstantial evidence is piling up that the virus actually came from the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory. Once again, it is not a biological weapon. Instead, it appears that Chinese scientists were studying a novel virus they found, and it accidentally infected a worker and "escaped" from the lab... (MORE - details)
Increasing confidence' China blamed coronavirus on wet market to deflect from Wuhan lab escape: Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...ape-report
EXCERPT: There is "increasing confidence" that China blamed a wet market in Wuhan to deflect how the novel coronavirus originated in a nearby government laboratory, according to a new report. [...] the breach came not as part of an effort to construct a bioweapon, but rather as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to show its abilities to study and fight viruses was comparable to those of the United States.
The unnamed sources were not identified, and it is not immediately clear whether they were intelligence officials or other members of the Trump administration. [...] they were briefed on China’s initial efforts to cover up the outbreak and had reviewed pertinent documents. One such source suggested this could be the “costliest government cover-up of all time.”
The report said the virus was first transmitted from bat to human, and “patient zero” was a lab employee who was accidentally infected before spreading the disease outside the lab. Records outlining initial reactions at the lab as well as early attempts to contain the virus are said to exist. Sources also characterized the World Health Organization as being part of a cover-up from the very beginning.
“Multiple sources are telling [...] that the United States now has high confidence that, while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus, it emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan, that, because of lax safety protocols, an intern was infected, who later infected her boyfriend, and then went to the wet market in Wuhan, where it then began to spread,” Roberts said.
[...] A Washington Post piece this week reported that two years ago, U.S. embassy officials in China raised concerns about biosecurity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s first biosafety level 4 lab, which researches infectious diseases, including coronaviruses from bats... (MORE - details)