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The Sunday London Times, out today, has a long, long article about the origins of the covid-19 virus in the lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Its conclusions are unqualified.
Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began.
Investigators who scrutinised top-secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.
There is no published information on the work because it was done in collaboration with researchers from the Chinese military, which was pursuing bioweapons.
The institute was engaged in increasingly risky experiments on coronaviruses it gathered from bat caves in southern China. Initially, it made its findings public and argued the associated risks were justified because the work might help science develop vaccines.
This changed in 2016 after researchers discovered a new type of coronavirus in a mineshaft in Mojiang in Yunnan province where people had died from symptoms similar to Sars.
Rather than warning the world, the Chinese authorities did not report the fatalities. The viruses found there were transported to the Wuhan institute and the work of its scientists became classified.
The classified program was to make the mineshaft viruses more infectious to humans.
They believe this led to the creation of the Covid-19 virus, and that it leaked into the city of Wuhan after a laboratory accident.
Precautions at the WIV lab were known to be inadequate:
The US embassy found out about the experiments in Wuhan and sent diplomats with scientific expertise to inspect the institute in January 2018. They observed “a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory”.
The London Times report also documents dishonesty within the scientific community that was being funded by the U.S. government.
The Wuhan lab created a coronavirus that was vastly more dangerous than Covid-19, which fortunately has not yet escaped.
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Note well: Has not YET escaped.
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Around the same time, the Wuhan institute took another perilous leap forward with its work on the most dangerous coronavirus experiment ever undertaken. The scientists selected three lab-grown mutant viruses which had all been shown to infect human cells. These mutants were then injected into the noses of albino mice with human lungs.
The aim was to see whether the viruses had the potential to spark a pandemic if they were fused together, as they might do naturally in a bat colony. The original WIV1 virus was injected into another group of mice as a comparison.
The mice were monitored in their cages over two weeks. The results were shocking. The mutant virus killed 75 per cent of the rodents and was three times as lethal as the original WIV1. In the early days of the infection, the mice’s human-like lungs were found to contain a viral load up to 10,000 times greater than the original WIV1 virus.
The scientists had created a highly infectious super-coronavirus with a terrifying kill-rate that in all probability would never have emerged in nature. The new genetically modified virus was not Covid-19 but it might have been even more deadly if it had leaked.
But the lethality of this virus was not disclosed.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/case-closed-it-was-a-lab-leak.php