Covid-19 Patients Zero In Wuhan Identified, Boosting Lab Leak Theory
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A report based on multiple anonymous sources inside the US government says that researchers working inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were the first to be infected with the virus that went on to trigger a pandemic and kill millions worldwide.
The report in Public cites "multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation" saying that Ben Hu, who led WIV's gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, was among the "patients zero" who contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus in November of 2019.
Sources told Public that Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu, all from WIV, are thought to be among the first infected with Covid-19.
If confirmed, the report would seem to disprove the long-held theory that the virus was not accidentally leaked from the Wuhan coronavirus lab, but instead emerged from a nearby wet market where exotic meats like pangolin are sold.
The so called "lab leak theory" was raised in the early days of the pandemic, but was often dismissed by officials, experts and members of the media.
Adding to the confusion, conflicting reports over the past few years have supported either the lab leak hypothesis and the narrative of a virus emerging zoonotically from the wet market.
The Public report carries the bylines of journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag.
"When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, "100%" it reads.
Representatives from WIV did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Representatives from WIV did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I'm fairly certain Sen Rand Paul has called and they won't be responding anytime soon.
Has anyone seem Dr Fauci lately?
20 million plus killed by negligence and covered up.
but hey, desantis said something I don’t like. He’s history’s greatest monster.
It is quite a sense of priorities they have.
It is quite a sense of priorities they have
China killed 4 times as many people as Hitler did during the Holocaust, again, and progressives have zero interest in it. Amazing.
Interesting article on Wuhan lab.
BOMBSHELL: COVID-19 developed by military at Wuhan lab – HotAir
"The UK’s Sunday Times, basically a centrist equivalent of The New York Times for Great Britain (The New York Times was actually named after the Times), has a bombshell report that COVID-19 was indeed engineered by the Chinese military using US funding. The US funding came through the EcoHealth Alliance."
Any questions?
It's truly bizarre how invested the elite media is in propping up Fauci, a true villain.
Was never a doubt that there was the possibility of development of the virus for nefarious reasons. But they screwed up and it got out prematurely without time for development of a vaccine...............
I wonder how many posters here were belittled and called conspiracy nuts for believing it came from the lab? Anybody who believed a bat and pangolin started it are beyond gullible.
What is absolutely a certainty is that China first hid the transmissibility of the virus and then provided incomplete data to the WHO.