Did COVID-19 originate in a laboratory? To answer that question, let’s look back to the early days of the pandemic and see what some of Anthony Fauci’s inner circle said privately about the origins of the virus — discussions that were only made possible through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Just disclosed.
Evolutionary biologist Christian Andersen wrote”, “A lab escape version of this scenario is all too likely because they are already doing this type of work and the molecular data is completely consistent with this scenario.
Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin emphasize Given the scale of the bat coronavirus research conducted in Wuhan, China, there is “a nightmare of circumstantial evidence that needs to be evaluated” regarding the possibility of inadvertent releases.
Virologist Bob Gary explain At the time, “I really can’t think of a logical natural situation when you get a bat virus or a COVID-19 virus that’s very similar to it, where you insert exactly 4 amino acids, 12 nucleosides acid, and all of these have to be added at the same time to get this functionality, I just can’t figure out how this is actually accomplished. according to For Gary, “given what we know about the progress of functional studies in Wuhan, it’s not crazy to think that this could happen.”
Even Ralph Baric, a world-renowned gain-of-function researcher and collaborator of Dr. Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, admit“so [the Wuhan Institute of Virology has] They have tons of viruses in their labs. So, you know, proximity is an issue. this is a problem.
Federal court order shows Fauci himself privately admit Just days before he commissioned the Proximal Origins paper, he was concerned about the gain-of-function study in Wuhan and “mutations in the virus that suggested it might be engineered.”
Despite these misgivings in private, publicly these so-called experts and their allies dismissed the lab leak theory as a conspiracy. Within days, Andersen, Lipkin and Gary put the finishing touches on what would become one of the most spectacular comebacks in recent history.
In their recent paper, these scientists Summarize“We believe any type of lab-based scenario is unreasonable.” Media pundits repeated the claim, while social media platforms censored discussions about lab leaks, flagged them as misinformation, and suppressed Public discussion about the origins of the virus.
The cover-up goes beyond public statements. Federal agencies and key officials withheld and continue to withhold critical information from Congress and the public.
For example, David Morens of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Deleted email It may have contained valuable insights into early discussions about how and where the virus originated, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has failed to comply with a law unanimously passed by Congress to declassify information about the origins of COVID-19. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and NIH have not yet provided documents related to the gain-of-function study that Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and I requested nearly a year ago. Just last week, a House committee released its findings that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health deliberately and chronically deceived the committee about certain gain-of-function research practices funded by those agencies.
Thanks to the brave whistleblowers, we learned The EcoHealth Alliance partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research to make the virus more dangerous. In the fall of 2019, it was revealed that three scientists working at the Wuhan institute developed coronavirus-like symptoms. A proposal to military research agency DARPA would insert a furin cleavage site very similar to COVID-19’s into a bat coronavirus, a modification expected to make the virus more deadly.
These findings provide important evidence about the origins of COVID-19. In fact, both FBI and Department of Energy It has now been concluded that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory.
The American people deserve full transparency about the origins of COVID-19. The pandemic has killed millions and paralyzed the global economy. Our federal and state governments are using this pandemic as a reason to deny Americans their civil liberties and liberties. Children miss out on important developmental opportunities, families lose their jobs, and businesses are forced to close.
Today’s Committee of the Whole hearing is the first of its kind in the Senate and is a critical step in getting answers to the American people’s questions about the origins of COVID-19. The next step is to have government officials testify publicly before our committees, and I look forward to working with Chairman Peters to hold hearings.
Understanding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is not just about assigning responsibility, but learning from what happened so that we can prevent future more deadly pandemics and the negative social consequences associated with them. My goal is to uncover the truth and put in place the necessary safeguards to prevent a tragedy of this magnitude from happening again.
