Wie immer hervorragend aufgearbeitet, leider drehen ziemlich viele Menschen grad tierisch am Rad weil die vollkommn den mainstreammedien blind vertrauen und unsere Rgeierung framed unwahrscheinlich, man bekommt ĂŒber die ĂR auch gar nicht mit was die aktion wir machen auf im Ausland fĂŒr Wellen schlĂ€gt.
Hoff
Huhu, du musst aber fairer Weise auch sagen das Finnland und Norwegen fast den gesamten Zeitraum alle Aussengrenzen geschlossen hatte, sich praktisch abgeriegelt hatte... alles Gute fĂŒr Euch!
Ein groĂes Dankeschön an euch, fĂŒr die tolle Aufarbeitung der Zahlen. Herzlichen GlĂŒckwunsch fĂŒr Bodo, Gottes Segen, Gesundheit und Liebe. Möge er heute Familie und Freunde um sich haben. Und ganz viel Kraft tanken. Alles Liebe fĂŒr euch
Hallo in die Runde, ich habe das "GlĂŒck" dem Wahnsinn in D, hier in Finnland zu entgehen. Die Regierung gibt Empfehlungen aus und keine Verbote in Verbindung mit BuĂgeldern etc. Wer bspw. Mundschutz tragen möchte, trĂ€gt ihn und wer nicht, auch gut. Nichtsdestotrotz wird hier die GehirngewĂ€sche via Medien auch ordentlich betrieben. Die Impfung auch als "Segen" propagiert. In unserem Umfeld sind die Leute entspannt und wissen um den Vorteil, weit weg vom "Mikrobenwahnsinn" zu sein. Lasst euch nicht "unterkriegen", die Tage von Merkill und Konsorten sind gezĂ€hlt!ll Es kann nur besser werden!!! đ
WHO inspector caught on camera revealing coronavirus manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic
Video shows scientist mention coronavirus experimentation in Wuhan lab weeks before pandemic
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By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2021/01/18 00:31
Vincent Racaniello (left), Peter Daszak (right). (YouTube, TWiV 615 screenshot)
Vincent Racaniello (left), Peter Daszak (right). (YouTube, TWiV 615 screenshot)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) â Video taken just days before the start of the coronavirus pandemic shows a current World Health Organization (WHO) inspector discuss the testing of modified coronaviruses on human cells and humanized mice in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), just weeks before the first cases of COVID-19 were announced in the city of Wuhan itself.
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In a video that was originally taken on Dec. 9, 2019, three weeks before the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announced an outbreak of a new form of pneumonia, virologist Vincent Racaniello interviewed British zoologist and president of EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak about his work at the nonprofit to protect the world from the emergence of new diseases and predict pandemics. Since 2014, Daszak's organization has received millions of dollars of funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which it has funneled to the WIV to carry out research on bat coronaviruses. In the first phase of research, which took place from 2014 to 2019, Daszak coordinated with Shi Zhengli, (çłæŁéș), also known as "Bat Woman," at the WIV on investigating and cataloging bat coronaviruses across China. EcoHealth Alliance received US$3.7 million in funding from the NIH for this research and 10 percent was channeled to the WIV, reported NPR. The second, more dangerous phase, which started in 2019, involved gain-of-function (GoF) research on coronaviruses and chimeras in humanized mice from the lab of Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina.
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Funding for the program was withdrawn by the NIH under the Trump administration on April 27 amid the pandemic. At the 28:10 mark of the podcast interview, Daszak states that researchers found that SARS likely originated from bats and then set out to find more SARS-related coronaviruses, eventually finding over 100. He observed that some coronaviruses can "get into human cells in the lab," and others can cause SARS disease in "humanized mouse models." He ominously warned that such coronaviruses are "untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals [antibodies] and you canât vaccinate against them with a vaccine." Ironically, he claims that his team's goal was trying to find the next "spillover event" that could cause the next pandemic, mere weeks before cases of COVID-19 were beginning to be reported in Wuhan. When Racaniello asks what can be done to deal with coronavirus given that there is no vaccine or therapeutic for them, Daszak at the 29:54 mark appears to reveal that the goal of the GoF experiments was to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine for many different types of coronaviruses. Based on his response, it is evident that just before the start of the pandemic, the WIV was modifying coronaviruses in the lab. "You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily." What he then mentioned has become the telltale trait of SARS-CoV-2, its spike protein: "Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk." Daszak mentions the WIV's collaboration with Baric: "and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC [University of North Carolina] to do this." As has been suggested by proponents that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera made in a lab, he speaks of inserting the spike protein "into a backbone of another virus" and then doing "some work in the lab." Providing evidence of the creation of chimeras for the sake of a vaccine, he states "Now, the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but letâs try to insert these other related diseases and get a better vaccine.â Based on Daszak's statements, it appears that just before the start of the pandemic, the WIV was using GoF experiments with chimeras in an attempt to create a vaccine. These experiments appeared to have included infecting mice genetically modified to express the human ACE2 protein with these chimeras. In a presentation titled "Assessing Coronavirus Threats," which was delivered four years before the pandemic in 2015, Daszak points out that experiments involving humanized mice have the highest degree of risk. Demonstrating his close ties with the WIV, he also listed the lab as a collaborator at the end of the presentation. WHO inspector caught on camera revealing coronavirus manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic (Assessing Coronavirus threats, Peter Daszak image) Controversially, Daszak has been included among a team of experts from the WHO that has finally been allowed by Beijing to investigate the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19, over a year after it started. Scientists such as Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, are condemning Daszak's participation due to conflicts of interest "that unequivocally disqualify him from being part of an investigation of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic," reported the Daily Mail. In light of the WHO's trip to Wuhan, a researcher who goes by the pseudonym Billy Bostickson and his colleagues at DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical
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Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19) have created a petition demanding that the international investigation team answer 50 key questions about the outbreak in Wuhan. Among the questions is a request to access to the facility's database and laboratory records, which are supposed to go back 20 years and include a look at its safety procedures, safety audit reports, and safety incident reports.
He ominously warned that such coronaviruses are "untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals [antibodies] and you canât vaccinate against them with a vaccine." Ironically, he claims that his team's goal was trying to find the next "spillover event" that could cause the next pandemic, mere weeks before cases of COVID-19 were beginning to be reported in Wuhan. When Racaniello asks what can be done to deal with coronavirus given that there is no vaccine or therapeutic for them, Daszak at the 29:54 mark appears to reveal that the goal of the GoF experiments was to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine for many different types of coronaviruses. Based on his response, it is evident that just before the start of the pandemic, the WIV was modifying coronaviruses in the lab. "You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily." What he then mentioned has become the telltale trait of SARS-CoV-2, its spike protein: "Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk."
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Daszak mentions the WIV's collaboration with Baric: "and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC [University of North Carolina] to do this." As has been suggested by proponents that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera made in a lab, he speaks of inserting the spike protein "into a backbone of another virus" and then doing "some work in the lab." Providing evidence of the creation of chimeras for the sake of a vaccine, he states "Now, the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but letâs try to insert these other related diseases and get a better vaccine.â Based on Daszak's statements, it appears that just before the start of the pandemic, the WIV was using GoF experiments with chimeras in an attempt to create a vaccine. These experiments appeared to have included infecting mice genetically modified to express the human ACE2 protein with these chimeras. In a presentation titled "Assessing Coronavirus Threats," which was delivered four years before the pandemic in 2015, Daszak points out that experiments involving humanized mice have the highest degree of risk. Demonstrating his close ties with the WIV, he also listed the lab as a collaborator at the end of the presentation. WHO inspector caught on camera revealing coronavirus manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic (Assessing Coronavirus threats, Peter Daszak image) Controversially, Daszak has been included among a team of experts from the WHO that has finally been allowed by Beijing to investigate the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19, over a year after it started. Scientists such as Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, are condemning Daszak's participation due to conflicts of interest "that unequivocally disqualify him from being part of an investigation of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic," reported the Daily Mail. In light of the WHO's trip to Wuhan, a researcher who goes by the pseudonym Billy Bostickson and his colleagues at DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19) have created a petition demanding that the international investigation team answer 50 key questions about the outbreak in Wuhan. Among the questions is a request to access to the facility's database and laboratory records, which are supposed to go back 20 years and include a look at its safety procedures, safety audit reports, and safety incident reports.
For more than a year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemicâs origin, choosing instead to devote enormous resources to deceit and disinformation. Nearly two million people have died. Their families deserve to know the truth. Only through transparency can we learn what caused this pandemic and how to prevent the next one.
The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virusâknown as SARS-CoV-2âwas transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
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The virus could have emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, spreading in a pattern consistent with a natural epidemic. Alternatively, a laboratory accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure included only a few individuals and was compounded by asymptomatic infection. Scientists in China have researched animal-derived coronaviruses under conditions that increased the risk for accidental and potentially unwitting exposure. The CCPâs deadly obsession with secrecy and control comes at the expense of public health in China and around the world. The previously undisclosed information in this fact sheet, combined with open-source reporting, highlights three elements about COVID-19âs origin that deserve greater scrutiny: 1. Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV): The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengliâs public claim that there was âzero infectionâ among the WIVâs staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one.The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019. Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their previously unreported illness. 2. Research at the WIV: Starting in at least 2016 â and with no indication of a stop prior to the COVID-19 outbreak â WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar). The WIV became a focal point for international coronavirus research after the 2003 SARS outbreak and has since studied animals including mice,
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bats, and pangolins.The WIV has a published record of conducting âgain-of-functionâ research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the COVID-19 virus, including âRaTG13,â which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.WHO investigators must have access to the records of the WIVâs work on bat and other coronaviruses before the COVID-19 outbreak. As part of a thorough inquiry, they must have a full accounting of why the WIV altered and then removed online records of its work with RaTG13 and other viruses. 3. Secret military activity at the WIV: Secrecy and non-disclosure are standard practice for Beijing. For many years the United States has publicly raised concerns about Chinaâs past biological weapons work, which Beijing has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with Chinaâs military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.The United States and other donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV. Todayâs revelations just scratch the surface of what is still hidden about COVID-19âs origin in China. Any credible investigation into the origin of COVID-19 demands complete, transparent access to the research labs in Wuhan, including their facilities, samples, personnel, and records. As the world continues to battle this pandemic â and as WHO investigators begin their work, after more than a year of delays â the virusâs origin remains uncertain. The United States will continue to do everything it can to support a credible and thorough investigation, including by continuing to demand transparency on the part of Chinese authorities.
Alles schön und gut. Die dargebotene Menge fÀllt jedoch unter SPAM. Was ich sagen wollte: Finnen sind fitter als der Rest der Welt. Sport, Eisbaden, Sauna. Geringe Bevölkerungsdichte, etc.
Anita IsÀnnÀinen
Schöne Werbung fuer FIđ. Hier in FI hst es zwar nur Empfehlungen gegeben wegen Maskenpflicht, die Leute haben aber durch das Brainwashing im TV und sonstiger MSM immer mehr freiwillig die Masken aufgesetzt. In Schulen usw werden auch immer mehr Massnahmen in Richtung Maskenball durchgefuehrt was nach den offiziellen Zahlen der THL (=wie RKI) keinen Sinn mehr macht. Die 10 Personen Begrenzungen richtet hier auch alle Berufsgruppen mit Publikum zugrunde. Manche Leute wissen gar nicht, dass es nur Empfehlungen sindđł Viele PflegekrĂ€fte und auch Leute zB in den SupermĂ€rkten werden schon lĂ€nger unter Druck gesetzt, dass sie die Grippeimpfung nehmen sollen. Lehrer und Schulen werden. jetzt zunehmend unter KarantĂ€ne gesetzt. Das Katz und Maus-Spiel mit den Demos hat hier jetzt auch angefangen. Fuer Morgen ist Demo in Helsinki angemeldet aber nicht nur eine,sondern viele, weil jeder in seine Gruppe nur die 10 Leut mitnehmen darf(die duerfen sich aber gegenseitig austauschen und in andere Gruppen wechseln sofern es halt immer nur 10 Leute sindđ) und die Polizei war der Meinung dass auf den grossen kansallistori (dort gibt es uebrigens ein Schild zur Meinungsfreiheit) nur 12 der 10erGruppen passen, so dass die Demos jetzt fuer viele Orte in der NĂ€he angemeldet sind. Mal sehen was da morgen dann passiert. Beim letzten Mal hat die Polizei dchon mal Leute (den Organisierer und such jemanden mit Journalidtenausweis)kurzweilig festgenommen. (30.1.) Die Skizentren sind hingehen vollđ€weil der Klimawandel ausgeblieben ist und wir hier wieder normalen Winter mit Schnee haben. Hier sieht es also nur teilweise besser aus, was die unsinnigen Massnahmen betrifft. Hier haben wir in der Zwischenzeit auch Gruppen die sich um die GegenaufklĂ€rung kuemmern zB koronarealistit. com und vapaudenpuolesta.fi (= uebersetzt: "fuer die Freiheit").
WHO inspector caught on camera revealing coronavirus manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic
Video shows scientist mention coronavirus experimentation in Wuhan lab weeks before pandemic
166924
By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2021/01/18 00:31
Vincent Racaniello (left), Peter Daszak (right). (YouTube, TWiV 615 screenshot)
Vincent Racaniello (left), Peter Daszak (right). (YouTube, TWiV 615 screenshot)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) â
Video taken just days before the start of the coronavirus pandemic shows
a current World Health Organization (WHO) inspector discuss the testing
of modified coronaviruses on human cells and humanized mice in the
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), just weeks before the first cases of
COVID-19 were announced in the city of Wuhan itself.
Dec. 9, 2019, three weeks before the Wuhan Municipal Health
Commission announced an outbreak of a new form of pneumonia,
virologist Vincent Racaniello interviewed British zoologist and
president of EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak about his work at the
nonprofit to protect the world from the emergence of new diseases and
predict pandemics. Since 2014, Daszak's organization has received
millions of dollars of funding from the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH), which it has funneled to the WIV to carry out research
on bat coronaviruses. In the first phase of research, which took
place from 2014 to 2019, Daszak coordinated with Shi Zhengli, (çłæŁéș),
also known as "Bat Woman," at the WIV on investigating and
cataloging bat coronaviruses across China. EcoHealth Alliance
received US$3.7 million in funding from the NIH for this research and
10 percent was channeled to the WIV, reported NPR. The second, more
dangerous phase, which started in 2019, involved gain-of-function
(GoF) research on coronaviruses and chimeras in humanized mice from
the lab of Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina.
administration on April 27 amid the pandemic. At the 28:10 mark of
the podcast interview, Daszak states that researchers found that SARS
likely originated from bats and then set out to find more
SARS-related coronaviruses, eventually finding over 100. He observed
that some coronaviruses can "get into human cells in the lab,"
and others can cause SARS disease in "humanized mouse models."
He ominously warned that such coronaviruses are "untreatable
with therapeutic monoclonals [antibodies] and you canât vaccinate
against them with a vaccine." Ironically, he claims that his
team's goal was trying to find the next "spillover event"
that could cause the next pandemic, mere weeks before cases of
COVID-19 were beginning to be reported in Wuhan. When Racaniello asks
what can be done to deal with coronavirus given that there is no
vaccine or therapeutic for them, Daszak at the 29:54 mark appears to
reveal that the goal of the GoF experiments was to develop a
pan-coronavirus vaccine for many different types of coronaviruses.
Based on his response, it is evident that just before the start of
the pandemic, the WIV was modifying coronaviruses in the lab. "You
can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily." What he then
mentioned has become the telltale trait of SARS-CoV-2, its spike
protein: "Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the
coronavirus, zoonotic risk." Daszak mentions the WIV's
collaboration with Baric: "and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC
[University of North Carolina] to do this." As has been
suggested by proponents that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera made in a lab,
he speaks of inserting the spike protein "into a backbone of
another virus" and then doing "some work in the lab."
Providing evidence of the creation of chimeras for the sake of a
vaccine, he states "Now, the logical progression for vaccines
is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going
to use pandemic SARS, but letâs try to insert these other related
diseases and get a better vaccine.â Based on Daszak's statements,
it appears that just before the start of the pandemic, the WIV was
using GoF experiments with chimeras in an attempt to create a
vaccine. These experiments appeared to have included infecting mice
genetically modified to express the human ACE2 protein with these
chimeras. In a presentation titled "Assessing Coronavirus
Threats," which was delivered four years before the pandemic in
2015, Daszak points out that experiments involving humanized mice
have the highest degree of risk. Demonstrating his close ties with
the WIV, he also listed the lab as a collaborator at the end of the
presentation. WHO inspector caught on camera revealing coronavirus
manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic (Assessing Coronavirus threats,
Peter Daszak image) Controversially, Daszak has been included among a
team of experts from the WHO that has finally been allowed by Beijing
to investigate the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19, over a year
after it started. Scientists such as Richard Ebright, a molecular
biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, are condemning
Daszak's participation due to conflicts of interest "that
unequivocally disqualify him from being part of an investigation of
the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic," reported the Daily Mail.
In light of the WHO's trip to Wuhan, a researcher who goes by the
pseudonym Billy Bostickson and his colleagues at DRASTIC
(Decentralized Radical
COVID-19) have created a petition demanding that the international
investigation team answer 50 key questions about the outbreak in
Wuhan. Among the questions is a request to access to the facility's
database and laboratory records, which are supposed to go back 20
years and include a look at its safety procedures, safety audit
reports, and safety incident reports.
He ominously warned that such
coronaviruses are "untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals
[antibodies] and you canât vaccinate against them with a vaccine."
Ironically, he claims that his team's goal was trying to find the
next "spillover event" that could cause the next pandemic,
mere weeks before cases of COVID-19 were beginning to be reported in
Wuhan. When Racaniello asks what can be done to deal with coronavirus
given that there is no vaccine or therapeutic for them, Daszak at the
29:54 mark appears to reveal that the goal of the GoF experiments was
to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine for many different types of
coronaviruses. Based on his response, it is evident that just before
the start of the pandemic, the WIV was modifying coronaviruses in the
lab. "You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily."
What he then mentioned has become the telltale trait of SARS-CoV-2,
its spike protein: "Spike protein drives a lot of what happens
with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk."
with Baric: "and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC [University of
North Carolina] to do this." As has been suggested by proponents
that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera made in a lab, he speaks of inserting
the spike protein "into a backbone of another virus" and
then doing "some work in the lab." Providing evidence of
the creation of chimeras for the sake of a vaccine, he states "Now,
the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop
a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but letâs
try to insert these other related diseases and get a better vaccine.â
Based on Daszak's statements, it appears that just before the start
of the pandemic, the WIV was using GoF experiments with chimeras in
an attempt to create a vaccine. These experiments appeared to have
included infecting mice genetically modified to express the human
ACE2 protein with these chimeras. In a presentation titled "Assessing
Coronavirus Threats," which was delivered four years before the
pandemic in 2015, Daszak points out that experiments involving
humanized mice have the highest degree of risk. Demonstrating his
close ties with the WIV, he also listed the lab as a collaborator at
the end of the presentation. WHO inspector caught on camera revealing
coronavirus manipulation in Wuhan before pandemic (Assessing
Coronavirus threats, Peter Daszak image) Controversially, Daszak has
been included among a team of experts from the WHO that has finally
been allowed by Beijing to investigate the origin of the outbreak of
COVID-19, over a year after it started. Scientists such as Richard
Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey,
are condemning Daszak's participation due to conflicts of interest
"that unequivocally disqualify him from being part of an
investigation of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic," reported
the Daily Mail. In light of the WHO's trip to Wuhan, a researcher who
goes by the pseudonym Billy Bostickson and his colleagues at DRASTIC
(Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19)
have created a petition demanding that the international
investigation team answer 50 key questions about the outbreak in
Wuhan. Among the questions is a request to access to the facility's
database and laboratory records, which are supposed to go back 20
years and include a look at its safety procedures, safety audit
reports, and safety incident reports.
(CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough
investigation of the COVID-19 pandemicâs origin, choosing instead to
devote enormous resources to deceit and disinformation. Nearly two
million people have died. Their families deserve to know the truth. Only
through transparency can we learn what caused this pandemic and how to
prevent the next one.
The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when,
or how the COVID-19 virusâknown as SARS-CoV-2âwas transmitted initially
to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through
contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a
laboratory in Wuhan, China.
from human contact with infected animals, spreading in a pattern
consistent with a natural epidemic. Alternatively, a laboratory
accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure
included only a few individuals and was compounded by asymptomatic
infection. Scientists in China have researched animal-derived
coronaviruses under conditions that increased the risk for accidental
and potentially unwitting exposure. The CCPâs deadly obsession with
secrecy and control comes at the expense of public health in China
and around the world. The previously undisclosed information in this
fact sheet, combined with open-source reporting, highlights three
elements about COVID-19âs origin that deserve greater scrutiny: 1.
Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV): The U.S.
government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the
WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of
the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common
seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of
WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengliâs public claim that there was
âzero infectionâ among the WIVâs staff and students of
SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.Accidental infections in labs have
caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere,
including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people,
killing one.The CCP has prevented independent journalists,
investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing
researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of
2019. Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include
interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their
previously unreported illness. 2. Research at the WIV: Starting in at
least 2016 â and with no indication of a stop prior to the COVID-19
outbreak â WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13,
the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its
closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar). The WIV became a focal
point for international coronavirus research after the 2003 SARS
outbreak and has since studied animals including mice,
published record of conducting âgain-of-functionâ research to
engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or
consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the
COVID-19 virus, including âRaTG13,â which it sampled from a cave
in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like
illness.WHO investigators must have access to the records of the
WIVâs work on bat and other coronaviruses before the COVID-19
outbreak. As part of a thorough inquiry, they must have a full
accounting of why the WIV altered and then removed online records of
its work with RaTG13 and other viruses. 3. Secret military activity
at the WIV: Secrecy and non-disclosure are standard practice for
Beijing. For many years the United States has publicly raised
concerns about Chinaâs past biological weapons work, which Beijing
has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear
obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.Despite the WIV
presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has
determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret
projects with Chinaâs military. The WIV has engaged in classified
research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the
Chinese military since at least 2017.The United States and other
donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV
have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research
funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV.
Todayâs revelations just scratch the surface of what is still
hidden about COVID-19âs origin in China. Any credible investigation
into the origin of COVID-19 demands complete, transparent access to
the research labs in Wuhan, including their facilities, samples,
personnel, and records. As the world continues to battle this
pandemic â and as WHO investigators begin their work, after more
than a year of delays â the virusâs origin remains uncertain. The
United States will continue to do everything it can to support a
credible and thorough investigation, including by continuing to
demand transparency on the part of Chinese authorities.