New US Report Links Covid-19 Origin to Lab Leak
US lawmakers have determined that the virus originated from a research facility in China, while also alleging that officials are disseminating misinformation. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Lawmakers have reached the conclusion that the virus likely originated from a research facility in China, accusing officials of disseminating misinformation.
The US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has released a 520-page report, following a two-year investigation, stating that Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The investigation found that the virus exhibited a biological characteristic that is not found in nature, and data suggested that all Covid-19 cases originated from a single introduction to humans, bolstering the theory of a lab leak.
The report asserts that the Chinese government, certain agencies within the US government, and some members of the international scientific community “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.”
Initially detected in Wuhan in December 2019, the coronavirus rapidly spread across the globe, resulting in over 7 million fatalities.
The report indicates that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China's leading research facility for coronaviruses, “has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.” It claims that researchers at the lab “were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.” According to the report, “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, there were theories suggesting that the virus originated from a Chinese wet market, known for selling meat, fish, produce, and exotic animals in often unsanitary conditions.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump alleged, without evidence, that the virus stemmed from a Chinese lab, a claim that Beijing characterized as a political maneuver aimed at enhancing Trump's appeal among Republican voters.
In a heated exchange, then-Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian promoted an unsupported conspiracy theory, alleging that the virus might have been introduced to China by the US military.
In 2021, Trump stated that China should pay reparations for its involvement in the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that if the global damage was accurately assessed, the cost could exceed $60 trillion.
That same year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and faced significant criticism for his pandemic response, declared that the suggestion that lab research caused the Covid-19 pandemic was “unconscionable” and “molecularly impossible.”
The Select Committee’s report also criticized the actions of officials, stating, “members and staff have exposed high-level corruption in America’s public health system, confirmed the most likely origin of the pandemic, held COVID-19 bad actors publicly accountable, fostered bipartisan consensus on consequential pandemic-era issues.”
Alejandro Jose Martinez for TROIB News
The US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has released a 520-page report, following a two-year investigation, stating that Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The investigation found that the virus exhibited a biological characteristic that is not found in nature, and data suggested that all Covid-19 cases originated from a single introduction to humans, bolstering the theory of a lab leak.
The report asserts that the Chinese government, certain agencies within the US government, and some members of the international scientific community “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.”
Initially detected in Wuhan in December 2019, the coronavirus rapidly spread across the globe, resulting in over 7 million fatalities.
The report indicates that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China's leading research facility for coronaviruses, “has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.” It claims that researchers at the lab “were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.” According to the report, “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, there were theories suggesting that the virus originated from a Chinese wet market, known for selling meat, fish, produce, and exotic animals in often unsanitary conditions.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump alleged, without evidence, that the virus stemmed from a Chinese lab, a claim that Beijing characterized as a political maneuver aimed at enhancing Trump's appeal among Republican voters.
In a heated exchange, then-Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian promoted an unsupported conspiracy theory, alleging that the virus might have been introduced to China by the US military.
In 2021, Trump stated that China should pay reparations for its involvement in the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that if the global damage was accurately assessed, the cost could exceed $60 trillion.
That same year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and faced significant criticism for his pandemic response, declared that the suggestion that lab research caused the Covid-19 pandemic was “unconscionable” and “molecularly impossible.”
The Select Committee’s report also criticized the actions of officials, stating, “members and staff have exposed high-level corruption in America’s public health system, confirmed the most likely origin of the pandemic, held COVID-19 bad actors publicly accountable, fostered bipartisan consensus on consequential pandemic-era issues.”
Alejandro Jose Martinez for TROIB News
