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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
AFTER ACTION REVIEW OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward
Final Report of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Committee on Oversight and Accountability
U.S. House of Representatives December 4, 2024
MAJOR FINDINGS:
- The NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
- The Constitution can't be suspended in times of crisis.
- COVID emerging from a lab leak is "not a conspiracy theory."
- EcoHealth and Dr. Peter Daszak should "never again" receive taxpayer funds.
- Public health officials have lost the trust of the people.
- Trump's Operation Warp Speed was a success.
- The COVID response was "rampant" with fraud, waste and abuse.
- "The prescription cannot be worse than the disease," lockdowns had horrific consequences.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04.2024-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT.pdf
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
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FILE - A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
BY DAKE KANG AND MARIA CHENG Updated 1:03 PM EDT, April 22, 2024
BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months.
The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country.
The investigation drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews that showed the freeze began far earlier than previously known and involved political and scientific infighting in China as much as international finger-pointing.
糯米团 @nuomt#每日开智 4/22/2024 路德时评
关于病毒来源，当时曾给中共站台的媒体风向开始转变
之前美联社，质疑病毒来自中共实验室，给自然学说站台 美联社记者姜大翼，也曾在闫博士推文底下发推：闫博士，你有证据吗？（其人在北京）
今天姜大翼在美联社写了：对Covid 19起源的探索如何变得具有政治毒性 很明显风向已经转变 但该篇内容只是一点点的转变，并没有说真正的了解多少 “美联社调查发现，尽管中国政府声明支持公开的科学调查，但从疫情爆发的头几周起，中国政府就冻结了国内外追踪病毒的努力。” “调查参考了数千页未公开的电子邮件和文件，以及数十次访谈”
英国议会已经作证了，中共如何买通WHO。所以这些媒体赶紧往回找，但又不敢写的太深入，假装分析来分析去 不管怎么说，可见中共是树倒猢狲散、墙倒众人推，大家都赶紧往其身上踩一脚
为什么美联社发布这一篇文章？ 因为美国国会接下来要对《科学》《柳叶刀》杂志开始质询，虽然有的人不敢来，但已经在调查了
4/22/2024 Luther Commentary
Regarding the origin of the virus, the media that had supported the CCP at the time began to change their tone
Previously, the Associated Press questioned whether the virus came from a Chinese laboratory and supported the theory of nature. Associated Press reporter Jiang Dayi also tweeted under Dr. Yan’s tweet: Dr. Yan, do you have any evidence? (He is in Beijing)
Jiang Dayi wrote in the Associated Press today: How the search for Covid 19's origins became politically toxic It's clear the wind has shifted, but the article only shifts slightly, and doesn't say how much is really known "An Associated Press investigation found that despite Chinese government statements supporting open scientific investigations, from the first weeks of the outbreak, the Chinese government froze efforts to track the virus at home and abroad." "The investigation drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, as well as dozens of interviews"
The British Parliament has already testified how the CCP bribed the WHO. So these media outlets are rushing to look back, but they dare not write too deeply, pretending to analyze it over and over again. In any case, it can be seen that the CCP is like monkeys scattering when a tree falls, and everyone is rushing to step on it.
Why did the Associated Press publish this article? Because the US Congress will start questioning Science and The Lancet. Although some people are afraid to come, they are already investigating.
https://twitter.com/nuomt/status/1782753700379062364
Chinese military’s work on marine toxins raising new fears of biological warfare weapons
Beijing's sea-based toxin research discussed for first time in State Department survey
EXCLUSIVE By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 23, 2024
China’s military is conducting research on sea-based neurotoxins, raising new fears among U.S. officials and analysts that Beijing is secretly developing deadly biological weapons for use in a future conflict.
Concerns about the marine toxin research were aired for the first time by the U.S. government earlier this month in the annual State Department arms control compliance report.
The report contended that China “continued to engage in biological activities with potential [biological weapons] applications, including possible development of toxins for military purposes, which raise concerns regarding its compliance with” the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), which went into effect in 1975 and was ratified by China in 1984.
China in the past was known to have developed germ weapons based on ricin, botulinum toxins, anthrax, cholera, plague and tularemia as part of a past biological arms program.
But the more recent disclosure of marine toxin work is the first time Beijing has been accused of conducting that type of strategic weapons research.
“The PLA’s research organizations have been conducting and directing military research related to dual-use marine toxins,” the report said.
The State Department also said China’s regular reports to other signatories of the BWC and Beijing’s own “confidence-building measures” failed to include information on the military marine toxin research.
• Bill Gertz can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.
Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/23/chinese-militarys-work-on-marine-toxins-raising-ne/
Research group used U.S. funds for dangerous virus experiments in China lab
EcoHealth chief Daszak faces sharp questioning amid controversy over COVID origins
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 1, 2024
AN EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE SURROUNDING ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.’s RESEARCH ACTIVITIES May 1, 2024
Interim Staff Report of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Committee on Oversight and Accountability
U.S. House of Representatives
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.05.01-SSCP-Report_FINAL.pdf
Virus hunter at center of ‘lab leak theory’ grilled by congressional committee
Posted: May 4, 2024 by Emily Kopp
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Wednesday about his coronavirus research collaboration situated at the epicenter of the worst pandemic in a century.
Daszak’s organization collaborated closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab complex specializing in bat-borne viruses, including SARS-related coronaviruses. The lab hosted one of the world’s largest coronavirus databases before the data was made inaccessible in the fall of 2019.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/ecohealth-daszak-grilled-by-subcommittee/
Classified docs 'credibly' suggest COVID originated from Wuhan lab leak, covered up by CCP: House Rep
COVID subcommittee is asking the State Department to declassify the records for the American people
By Brooke Singman Fox News Published May 7, 2024 6:30pm EDT
US shared ‘gobsmacking’ Covid lab leak file with UK
Evidence supporting theory was presented to Dominic Raab, then the Foreign Secretary – but ‘was ignored’
Tony Diver, US EDITOR4 May 2024 • 8:00pm
Related Topics Covid Inquiry, Coronavirus, Dominic Raab, Wuhan Institute of Virology, China
House panel seeks release of COVID-19 origin secrets
PrintBy Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
NEWS AND ANALYSIS:
Two classified State Department documents made public in part by a House subcommittee suggest that Chinese President Xi Jinping was involved in covering up the deadly COVID-19 outbreak.
The heavily censored reports sent from Taiwan to the State Department in July and August 2020 also provide new clues to the Chinese military’s role at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a location that at least two U.S. intelligence agencies believe was the origin of the pandemic.
The redacted State Department reports, once labeled “secret/sensitive” and “secret/noforn” (no foreign dissemination) — were made public by the House Government Oversight select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup has written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday asking that the full contents of the documents be made public.
The truth about Covid’s origins is finally coming out
Under questioning from Congress, two key figures have unwittingly strengthened the lab-leak theory.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/12/the-truth-about-covids-origins-is-finally-coming-out/
2024.05.28-BRW-Letter-to-NIH-Re.-FOIA_Redacted.pdf
The NIH-EcoHealth Alliance Cover-Up
By Roger Pielke Jr. The Honest Broker May 23, 2024
https://www.aei.org/articles/the-nih-ecohealth-alliance-cover-up/
POLITICS / MAY 28, 2024 JIMMY TOBIAS
At the NIH, a Scandal Grows Around an Official’s Evasion of Public Records Law
After a top aide to Anthony Fauci was grilled by Congress, questions emerge as to whether others may have sought to avoid transparency around the Covid epidemic.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nih-foia-covid-origins-morens-hearing/
It’s time for a COVID truth and reconciliation commission
By Peter Laffin May 29, 2024 6:00 am
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Wuhan Scientists ADMIT Unsafe Conditions in Lab, SECRET WARNINGS About Gain of Function: Report
The Hill Premiered Nov 27, 2023 WASHINGTON
Vanity Fair contributor Katherine Eban weighs in on her latest reporting on alleged U.S.-funded research in China, predating the Covid-19 pandemic. #NIH #coronavirus
Secret Warnings About Wuhan Research Predated the Pandemic
A series of previously unreported alarms and clashes over US-funded research in China reveal long-standing friction between two groups of government scientists: those who prioritize international collaboration, and those who are kept up at night by the idea that cutting-edge technologies could end up in the wrong hands.
BY KATHERINE EBAN NOVEMBER 21, 2023 Condé Nast.
"A six-month investigation by VF has found an almost decade-long trail of warnings issued by the Department of Energy to other government agencies, including the NIH, concerning the risk that US-funded biology research could be misused by overseas partners."
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Gosar Demands Biden Admin Explain WMD-Related Funding To Nonprofit Tied To Wuhan Lab
HENRY RODGERS CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT December 04, 2023 12:41 PM ET
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/04/paul-gosar-nih-wiv-ecohealth-funding/
NGO with Ties to Wuhan Lab Received over $50 Million from Federal Agencies since Pandemic, GOP Congressman Says
By DAVID ZIMMERMANN December 4, 2023 5:02 PM
Representative Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) demanded answers from four federal agencies concerning their ongoing funding of EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan lab-associated nongovernmental organization that has received upwards of $50 million in taxpayer money since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
'WHO has lost its independence, Indian govt should exit global health body'
Eminent British-Indian Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra has alleged that the World Health Organization (WHO) has completely lost its independence and suggested that the Indian government should ignore its advice on various issues and exit the global health body. Talking to a news agency, Malhotra, who gave a lecture at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on "The Corporate Capture of Medicine and Public Health" recently, also claimed that regulators do not independently evaluate data related to drugs.
- Updated On Dec 2, 2023 at 06:03 PM IST
Congress’ Defense Bill To Keep Funding For Org Tied To Wuhan Lab
JAKE SMITH CONTRIBUTOR
December 07, 202311:20 AM
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/07/congress-defense-bill-keep-funding-org-tied-wuhan-lab/
DEFUSE proposal
Contributed by Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)
OCR: Tesseract
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-proposal
ACTION REFERRAL MEMORANDUM
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-2-EHA-SUSP4D-ARM_05.15.2024_signed.pdf
Notice of Suspension and Proposed Debarment of EcoHealth Alliance, Inc
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-1-EHA-SUSP4D-Notice_5.15.2024_signed.pdf
AN EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE SURROUNDING ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.’s RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.05.01-SSCP-Report_FINAL.pdf
FAUCI's NIAID Shipped LIVE CORONAVIRUS STRAIN TO Montana In 2019, Tested On LIVE BATS: Report
The Hill WASHINGTON 11/2/2023
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss a new investigation on research allegedly conducted in a lab in Montana before the Covid-19 pandemic officially began. #Fauci #Coronavirus
By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:20 EDT, 31 October 2023 | UPDATED: 21:52 EDT, 31 October 2023
Blowing the COVID Cover-up Wide Open
A CIA whistleblower pulls back the curtain on COVID’s origins in the shadowy world of U.S. biodefense programs
BY ASHLEY RINDSBERG SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/blowing-covid-coverup-wide-open
Inside EcoHealth Alliance’s closed-door congressional testimony
Peter Daszak briefed Dr. Fauci after his 2021 visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
November 15, 2023 | 2:35 pm
https://thespectator.com/topic/inside-ecohealth-alliance-closed-door-congressional-testimony/
HSGAC Letter to HHS on NIH's Morens Nov 2023
Contributed by Paul Thacker
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24169364-hsgac-letter-to-hhs-on-nihs-morens-nov-2023
INVESTIGATION INTO THE REEDLEY BIOLAB
INVESTIGATION INTO THE REEDLEY BIOLAB: FINDINGS
On September 6, 2023, the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (“Select Committee”) issued its first subpoena as part of its ongoing investigation into the illegal facility that local authorities uncovered in Reedley, California. The subpoena, signed by the Chairman with an on-site visit by the Select Committee’s Chief Investigative Counsel and two investigative staffers, uncovered thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of photographs, and hours of video. This evidence, alongside interviews of local officials and other investigative steps, revealed troubling gaps in federal pathogen safeguards. These gaps allowed a wanted fugitive from Canada, who is a PRC national who had previously stolen millions of dollars of American intellectual property, to operate an illegal facility that contained “thousands of vials of potentially infectious agents” in Reedley, California.1 The Select Committee engaged in this investigation based on public requests and expressions of concern from both Republican and Democratic Members of Congress and in coordination with Congressman Jim Costa, who represents the district where Reedley is located.2 After the Select Committee issued the subpoena, Congressman Costa stated, “It is my hope that we work in a bipartisan, coordinated manner to fully understand the scope of this lab and prevent any future labs like this one from operating illegally in our communities.”3 The Select Committee shares these goals and drafted this report, in part, as an essential step towards accomplishing them. 4
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-15-Reedley-Report-1.10pm.pdf
Outline of Select Committee Investigation Findings on Biolab in Reedley, CA 11.15.23
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
American scientists misled Pentagon on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Posted: December 18, 2023 by Emily Kopp
A 2018 research proposal called DEFUSE called for synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic pathogen in a century. (Photo credit: Unsplash)
American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards from the Pentagon the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know.
A 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists, has stoked concern that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident.
It proposed engineering high-risk coronaviruses of the same species as SARS and SARS-CoV-2. Most worrying to some scientists: The proposal involved synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic pathogen in a century. Indeed, some scientists have likened DEFUSE to a blueprint for generating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/
March 20, 2024, 12:21 PM EDT
Senators to Study Covid Origins in Broader Biosecurity Probe
EXCLUSIVEEllen M. GilmerReporter
Bipartisan committee announces 'groundbreaking' probe into Covid origins in order to 'prevent past mistakes'...giving more credence to Covid lab leak theory
- Fifteen-member committee in the Senate will conduct the investigation
- Rand Paul, Kentucky senator, said it was 'well past time' for the probe
- READ MORE: Data reveals startling number of accidents at US labs
By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:46 EDT, 20 March 2024 | UPDATED: 17:01 EDT, 20 March 2024
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13220019/probe-covid-origins-lab-leak.html
Is this the smoking gun for the Covid lab leak? Blueprint for creating a 'SARS-CoV' virus with an altered spike protein in Wuhan was published in 2018, bombshell new records show
- American and Chinese scientists proposed experimenting with spike proteins
- Ultimately, it was not selected for a grant and the project did not move forward
- READ MORE: Sen Rand Paul goes nuclear over 'Covid cover-up'
By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:27 EST, 19 December 2023 | UPDATED: 13:52 EST, 20 December 2023
Dangerous research. (Permission to use this cartoon is granted with attribution.) Andrew Tuntable EMail: ATuntable@gmail.com
Twitter: @atuntable
Summary of Evidence Origin Of Covid
Below is a summary, the evidence. More details about each point and links to research papers can be found in [Detailed Evidence].
10 Key Facts
- Wuhan is 1500 km from the relevant bats.
There are some bats near Wuhan, but they have not been found to be infected with coronaviruses. Wuhan was considered a very unlikely location for a wildlife spillover in recent studies. [Geography]. - No intermediate animal source has been found.
A search of of over 80,000 animals has proven fruitless. The intermediate sources for SARS-1 (civets) and MERS (camels) were found within a few months. [Natural-Precursors] - No evidence that the Huanan “wet” seafood market was not just a super spreader.
Most environmental samples were human, and no infected animals have been found. Samples were collected in January 2020, weeks after the initial outbreak. All but one Sample was Lineage B, not the ancestral Lineage A. Neither bats nor pangolins were traded in the market. Detailed distance analysis is of limited value in a city with a modern subway. [Wuhan-Seafood]. - The virus arose suddenly, fully functional, without an adaption period.
A virus usually takes time to adapt to a new species, during which time it is not very infectious, as happened with SARS-1 and MERS. Covid-19 appeared very suddenly without any history, and was more adapted to humans than any other animal. [Natural Precursors] - Recent advances in technology enable complex genetic engineering.
It is now possible to “3D print” a complete virus just from a computer file. Viruses can be developed in genetically engineered “humanized” mice. The Wuhan Institution of Virology have published their excellent results enhancing other coronaviruses virulence and transmissible. [Reverse Genetics] - The Novel Furin Cleavage Site appears engineered.
SARS-CoV-2 is extremely infectious because of a “Furin Cleavage Site” that is not present in other closely related coronaviruses. Its encoding strongly suggests that it was engineered and is not natural. [Furin Cleavage Site] - The DARPA DEFUSE proposal to add a Furin Cleavage Site.
The WIV and the Eco Health Alliance submitted a grant proposal to engineer a Furin Cleavage Site into a Coronavirus in exactly the place that SARS-CoV-2 has one. [DEFUSE Proposal] - The Wuhan Institute of Virology known to have poor biosafety.
The WIV conducted coronavirus research at the grossly inadequate biosecurity level 2, not high security space-suited BSL-4 . US government and Chinese reports had raised concerns about their biosecurity practices in 2017.[Biosecurity at the WIV] - Laboratory leaks are not uncommon.
There have been many documented leaks of dangerous pathogens from both China and western countries, such as a recent leak of SARS-2 from Taiwan. [Laboratory-Leaks] - Removed database and destroyed evidence.
The WIV removed a public database of their viruses in September 2019, which probably contained the direct precursor to SARS-CoV-2. In February 2020 the Chinese government forbade Chinese academics from publishing about the virus. The USA government also refuses to release important unclassified information. [Database Removal and Obfuscation]
https://originofcovid.org/summary-of-evidence/
Fauci’s returning to Congress — will he continue his COVID coverup?
By Social Links forJames BovardPublished Jan. 4, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
Open access Published: 26 May 2017
Detection of alpha- and betacoronaviruses in rodents from Yunnan, China
Virology Journal volume 14, Article number: 98 (2017) Cite this article 9538 Accesses 38 Citations 109 Altmetric Metrics
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-017-0766-9
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images.
HOME DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES BIOSECURITY NIH TO TERMINATE PART OF ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE GRANT AFTER ITS WUHAN PARTNERS REFUSE TO DELIVER INFORMATION ON CORONAVIRUS STUDIES Biosecurity
NIH to terminate part of EcoHealth Alliance grant after its Wuhan partners refuse to deliver information on coronavirus studies
By Matt Field, August 24, 2022
Scientists at the center of the ‘lab leak’ controversy met with NIH, Fauci
Posted: January 6, 2024 by Emily Kopp
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/daszak-shi-visits-nih-fauci/
Scientists at the center of the “lab leak” controversy visited Anthony Fauci’s institute at the National Institutes of Health in 2017 to discuss their research — just months before NIH lifted a pause on high-risk virology, and two years before a novel coronavirus emerged near their lab in Wuhan.
Wuhan Institute of Virology Senior Scientist Shi Zhengli passed a security screening to visit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases staffers in June 2017, where she gave a presentation about novel coronaviruses, emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show.
Shi is known internationally as the “Bat Lady” for her work with bats and their coronaviruses. Though ostensibly a civilian lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has conducted research projects “for defensive and biosecurity needs of the military” since at least 2017, according to U.S. intelligence.
FEBRUARY 2024 SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra
Tech Commentary by James B. Meigs
I thought I was done with writing about Covid-19. But Covid-19 isn’t done with me—or with any of us.
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/likely-lab-leak-covid-cassandra/
Chinese lab crafts mutant COVID-19 strain with 100% kill streak in ‘humanized’ mice: ‘Surprisingly’ rapid death
By Katherine Donlevy Published Jan. 16, 2024 Updated Jan. 17, 2024, 7:26 a.m. ET
Chinese scientists 'create' a mutant coronavirus strain that attacks the BRAIN and has a 100% kill rate in mice - as they admit there's a 'risk it spills over to humans'
- Eight rodents infected with the pathogen 'surprisingly' died within eight days
- Critics of the study said: 'This madness must be stopped before [it is] too late'
- READ MORE: World leaders meet to thrash out plan to protect against 'Disease X'
By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:59 EST, 16 January 2024 | UPDATED: 16:34 EST, 16 January 2024
The Harvard connection
Was a Fauci-endorsed Chinese donation part of the lab-leak cover up?
May 26, 2022 | 2:37 pm
On the morning of Sunday February 2, 2020, Anthony Fauci, then in the middle of putting together America’s pandemic response, received an unusual email with a highly unusual request. The email, revealed as part of a tranche of FOIA documents requested by the Intercept, was from George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School. “Alan Garber, Harvard’s provost, and I met yesterday with a team led by Jack Xia, the CEO of China’s Evergrande Company, and Dr. Jack Liu, Evergrande’s chief health officer,” Daley wrote. Addressing the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as “Tony,” he asked for “whatever information you are willing to share on your current efforts to coordinate a response.”
https://thespectator.com/topic/fauci-harvard-and-the-ccp/
The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies
Shame on all the federal employees who covered up these facts about COVID-19
By Sen. Rand Paul Fox News Published April 9, 2024 5:00am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/great-covid-cover-up-shocking-truth-about-wuhan-15-federal-agencies
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Secret Warnings About Wuhan Research Predated the Pandemic
A series of previously unreported alarms and clashes over US-funded research in China reveal long-standing friction between two groups of government scientists: those who prioritize international collaboration, and those who are kept up at night by the idea that cutting-edge technologies could end up in the wrong hands.
BY KATHERINE EBAN NOVEMBER 21, 2023 Condé Nast.
"A six-month investigation by VF has found an almost decade-long trail of warnings issued by the Department of Energy to other government agencies, including the NIH, concerning the risk that US-funded biology research could be misused by overseas partners."
Wuhan was thrust into global prominence after the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019. Picture: Getty Images
US intelligence official linked to WHO was critical in downplaying Covid lab leak theory during Joe Biden's 90-day probe into virus origins
An intelligence agency official with a background at the World Health Organization was involved in downplaying the lab leak theory during Joe Biden’s 90-day probe into the origins of Covid-19.
Sharri Markson Sky News host November 27, 2023 - 6:00PM
糯米团 @nuomt 历史时刻：2020年7月10日，闫博士@DrLiMengYAN1 在福克斯FOX的首次专访 里面提到了路德社@lude_media 历史性的1.19节目！ 这期专访现在看依然震撼！ 距离这次专访播出，已经过去了1235天，这个世界改变了吗？留给人类的时间还足够吗？ Translated from Chinese by https://translate.google.com/
Historical moment: Dr. Yan
s first interview on FOX on July 10, 2020 It mentioned the historic 1.19 program of Lutheran Society
! This interview is still shocking when I read it now! 1,235 days have passed since this interview was broadcast. Has the world changed? Is there still enough time left for humanity?
https://twitter.com/nuomt/status/1729248396333199575
Chef Eric @mingleili2距离闫博士首次参加Fox news节目已经过去1235 天了！ 闫博士是第一个向世界说新冠会大流行！而且通过值得信赖的路德社向世界公布！闫博士的生命受到了习共的威胁！还有她爱人的追杀！几年下来，她说的一切都得到了验证！如今在中国疫情再一次袭来！留给我们的时间真的不多了！Translated from Chinese by https://www.google.com/
It has been 1,235 days since Dr. Yan participated in the Fox News program for the first time! Dr. Yan was the first to tell the world that the new coronavirus would become a pandemic! And announce it to the world through the trustworthy Lutheran News Agency! Dr. Yan’s life has been threatened by the Xi Communist Party! And her lover is chasing her! After a few years, everything she said has been verified! Now the epidemic is striking again in China! There really isn’t much time left for us!
https://twitter.com/mingleili2/status/1729263760425287708
China covered up the origins of Covid. It’s time the Inquiry asked why
Beijing’s lies denied the world a chance to stop the spread, costing millions of lives. We deserve to know the truth
MATT RIDLEY 28 November 2023 • 2:45pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/28/gove-covid-inquiry-man-made-china-wuhan/
December 14, 2023 updated 16 Dec 2023 12:18am
Covid-19 origins: A media conspiracy of silence
Why did so many journalists dismiss as a conspiracy the idea Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan?
By Jim Edwards
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/wuhan-lab-leak-journalists-media/
What the House investigation into COVID-19 origins has turned up after one year
by Gabrielle M. Etzel, Healthcare Reporter December 27, 2023 03:00 AM
China continues experiments with 'lethal' COVID strain; experts raise alarm: ‘This madness must be...’
17 Jan 2024, 09:26 AM Livemint
FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
Posted: January 18, 2024 by Gary Ruskin
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/USGS-DEFUSE-2021-006245-Combined-Records_Redacted.pdf
Senior US journalist attacks leading scientists for ‘misleading’ him over Covid lab-leak theory
Former New York Times reporter said he became sceptical of hypothesis involving Wuhan laboratory after virologists said it wasn’t possible
Susie Coen, US CORRESPONDENT 26 March 2024 • 7:54pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/03/26/new-york-times-donald-mcneil-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Fauci Diverted US Government Away From Lab Leak Theory Of Covid’s Origin, Sources Say Fauci allegedly attacked lab leak theory at meetings at CIA, the State Department, and the White House
by @shellenberger @mtaibbi @galexybrane
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1707077052795670538
The former director of the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, visited CIA headquarters to “influence” its review of COVID-19 origins, the House Oversight Committee reported yesterday.
Published: Sep 26, 2023
Wenstrup Reveals New Allegations that Dr. Fauci Potentially Influenced CIA COVID-19 Origins Investigation
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) revealed new allegations that Dr. Fauci went to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters to “influence” its COVID-19 origins investigation. This revelation comes on the heels of recently acquired whistleblower testimony alleging that the CIA potentially skewed its COVID-19 origins review by offering six analysts significant financial incentives to conclude that the result of its investigation was inconclusive. Dr. Fauci’s questionable presence at the CIA, coupled with recently uncovered evidence that he, Dr. Fauci, “prompted” the drafting of “Proximal Origin” — the infamous paper that was used to attempt to “disprove” the lab leak theory — lends credence to heightened concerns about the promotion of a false COVID-19 origins narrative by multiple federal government agencies.
Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright
29 million killed. 25 trillion dollars lost. Due--almost certainly--to the actions of four sociopaths who placed their career interests over the lives and interests of 7.9 billion: Zhengli Shi, Peter Daszak, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins.10:55 AM · Sep 28, 2023·
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1707408744361922731
3 possibilities exist:
1. Fauci convinced the CIA to dishonestly obscure the lab origin of COVID.
2. The CIA convinced Fauci to obscure the lab origin of COVID. Or
3. An outside entity or person with unlimited monetary resources convinced Fauci to influence the CIA to obscure the lab origin of COVID. One thing is for certain, Fauci did not visit the CIA to seek the truth but to facilitate and further the cover-up.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/fauci-secretly-went-to-cia-hq-to-influence-covid-19-origins-probe-house-republican-alleges/…5:49 AM · Sep 28, 2023
Scientists linked to Wuhan lab accused of performing dangerous experiments that could cause leak
A team from the University of North Carolina published a paper detailing how they had synthesised a Mers-like bat virus
BySarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR27 September 2023 • 7:53pm
Scientists linked to Wuhan bat researchers have been accused of performing dangerous experiments on a Mers-like virus that could spark a pandemic.
A team from the University of North Carolina published a paper in Science Advances on Wednesday detailing how they had synthesised a Mers-like bat virus, and used it to infect human cells and humanised mice.
Mers is one of the deadliest viruses, killing around 35 per cent of people that it infects.
The team includes Professor Ralph Baric and Trevor Scobey who worked with Professor Shi Zhengli, of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, before the pandemic creating chimeric viruses by inserting spike proteins from bat viruses into the original Sars virus.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Fauci was told of NIH ties to Wuhan lab’s novel coronaviruses by January 2020
Posted: September 5, 2023 by Emily Kopp
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-nih-wuhan-coronaviruses/
DIA-Response-to-23-cv-02936.pdf
Defense Intelligence Agency about the origins of COVID.
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DIA-Response-to-23-cv-02936.pdf
IC ASSESSMENTS ON COVID-19 ORIGINS
DECLASSIFIED by DNI Haines on 23 June 2023
This report responds to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which called for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to declassify information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic
WUHAN LAB Thursday, September 07, 2023
Fauci was told of funding for coronavirus research in Wuhan in January 2020, emails show
by Gabrielle M. Etzel, Healthcare Reporter September 06, 2023 02:33 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/fauci-funding-for-coronavirus-wuhan-january
US quietly shuts down $125million USAID project to find novel viruses in Asia and Africa due to fears it could ignite a pandemic
- Officials are shuttering the project three years before it was meant to end
- The US-backed research has been criticized over the safety of the project
- READ MORE: Millions of US tax dollars STILL being sent to 27 Chinese labs
By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:00 EDT, 7 September 2023 | UPDATED: 15:49 EDT, 7 September 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12491751/USAID-125million-project-pandemic.html
The US quietly terminates a controversial $125m wildlife virus hunting programme amid safety fears
BMJ 2023; 382 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2002 (Published 07 September 2023)Cite this as: BMJ 2023;382:p2002
- David Willman, investigative journalist
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p2002
A Mysterious Lab Is Shutting Down. It’s the End of an Era for Biosecurity.
The Covid Cover-up
Health authorities and policymakers squandered public trust by lying to the American people.
Eye on the News / Health Care, Politics and law
Oct 01 2023
In July 2020, Anthony Fauci got into a heated exchange with Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul during a Senate committee hearing. At the time, the question of whether the Covid-19 virus might have leaked from a Wuhan, China, laboratory was considered a conspiracy theory by most health officials and media outlets. But a few independent scientists and reporters kept investigating the possibility. A particularly troubling question was whether the U.S. government might have funded “gain-of-function” research that had made a naturally occurring virus more infectious. Fauci had supported such research in the past. And, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a key branch of the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health, he was involved in distributing millions of dollars in grants to virus researchers around the world. In a hearing several months earlier, Fauci had denied that the NIH ever funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-covid-coverup
Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof?
By JIM GERAGHTY June 19, 2023 9:24 AM
Global Engagement Center Special Report: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment
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Global Engagement Center Special Report: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment
Every country should have the ability to tell its story to the world. However, a nation’s narrative should be based on facts and rise and fall on its own merits. The PRC employs a variety of deceptive and coercive methods as it attempts to influence the international information environment. Beijing’s information manipulation spans the use of propaganda, disinformation, and censorship. Unchecked, the PRC’s efforts will reshape the global information landscape, creating biases and gaps that could even lead nations to make decisions that subordinate their economic and security interests to Beijing’s.
PRC Information Manipulation
The PRC spends billions of dollars annually on foreign information manipulation efforts.2 Beijing uses false or biased information to promote positive views of the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). At the same time, the PRC suppresses critical information that contradicts its desired narratives on issues such as Taiwan, its human rights practices, the South China Sea, its domestic economy, and international economic engagement. More broadly, the PRC seeks to cultivate and uphold a global incentive structure that encourages foreign governments, elites, journalists, and civil society to accept its preferred narratives and avoid criticizing its conduct.
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NIH's silence on Fauci aide 'extremely concerning': Congress threatens subpoena
by Gabrielle M. Etzel, Healthcare Reporter October 05, 2023 05:15 PM
Published: Oct 12, 2023
Wenstrup to Hold Hearing on COVID-19 Biosafety and Biosecurity Failures
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity Standards: Protecting Against Future Pandemics” to evaluate the effectiveness of existing biosafety and biosecurity practices in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss future policy improvements. Current standards for high-risk laboratories in the U.S. and abroad are confusing, overlapping, and often require individual facilities and scientists to police themselves. In addition, this hearing will examine the conflicting oversight mechanisms and federal guidelines that control laboratory activity funded by the U.S. government.
Published: Oct 18, 2023 WASHINGTON
Hearing Wrap Up: High-Risk Laboratories Need Updated Biosafety and Biosecurity Standards, COVID-19 Exacerbated Shortcomings
Testimony of Jaime M. Yassif, Ph.D. Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative Before the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Hearing on “Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity Standards: Protecting Against Future Pandemics” Wednesday, October 18, 2023
REVEALED: Anthony Fauci-run lab in MONTANA experimented with coronavirus strain shipped in from Wuhan a year BEFORE Covid pandemic began
- The NIH infected 12 bats with a SARS-like coronavirus in 2018
- The virus was shipped from Wuhan to an NIH lab in Montana
- READ MORE: Fauci warns he has nightmares about 'next inevitable pandemic'
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PUBLISHED: 16:20 EDT, 31 October 2023 | UPDATED: 21:52 EDT, 31 October 2023
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Published: Sep 12, 2023
Testimony From CIA Whistleblower Alleges New Information on COVID-19 Origins
WASHINGTON — Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to change their position on COVID-19’s origin. The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. The CIA, then however, allegedly offered financial incentives to six of the experts involved in the investigation to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin.
CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower
By Josh ChristensonPublished Sep. 12, 2023, 10:38 a.m. ET
CIA whistleblower claims agency 'BRIBED' their own analysts to say COVID did NOT come from Wuhan: Bombshell Republican report exposes alleged virus origins cover-up
- Six of seven members on a CIA Covid Discovery Team were given 'significant monetary incentive to change their position,' according to a whistleblower
- The CIA ultimately refused to make a formal assessment on Covid's origins, even with low confidence
By MORGAN PHILLIPS, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:19 EDT, 12 September 2023 | UPDATED: 13:43 EDT, 12 September 2023
CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak theory, anonymous whistleblower claims
Agency denies allegation as congressional panel demands information from CIA probe into pandemic’s start
- 12 SEP 2023 5:35 PM ET BYJON COHEN
- A majority of U.S. intelligence agencies has so far concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic mostly likely started when SARS-CoV-2 jumped from an infected animal host into people; a wildlife market in Wuhan, China, has received intense attention from researchers as the potential source. But the Department of Energy and FBI so far have favored the so-called lab-leak hypothesis, even though none of the agencies has expressed high confidence in their conclusions on COVID-19’s origin. CIA, for example, had reportedly said it was “unable to determine” whether SARS-CoV-2 made a direct jump from animals to humans—or came from a lab.
The House China Select Committee issued its first ever subpoena as it investigates a Chinese-owned lab in California.
Local, state and federal agencies have been investigating the lab that produced pregnancy and coronavirus tests to sell online.
OLIVIA BEAVERS 09/13/2023, 9:00AM ET
The House China Select Committee issued its first ever subpoena last week, as it took its investigation into a Chinese-owned lab in California to the next level.
China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules
Wuhan Institute of Virology broke rules with experiments that increased viral activity more than tenfold, says health department
BySarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR24 September 2023 • 3:15pm
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has failed to cooperate with US investigators CREDIT: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
The Chinese laboratory suspected of leaking coronavirus has been stripped of United States government funding for 10 years after conducting dangerous experiments that increased the potency of coronaviruses before the pandemic....
Published: Sep 26, 2023
Wenstrup Reveals New Allegations that Dr. Fauci Potentially Influenced CIA COVID-19 Origins Investigation
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) revealed new allegations that Dr. Fauci went to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters to “influence” its COVID-19 origins investigation. This revelation comes on the heels of recently acquired whistleblower testimony alleging that the CIA potentially skewed its COVID-19 origins review by offering six analysts significant financial incentives to conclude that the result of its investigation was inconclusive. Dr. Fauci’s questionable presence at the CIA, coupled with recently uncovered evidence that he, Dr. Fauci, “prompted” the drafting of “Proximal Origin” — the infamous paper that was used to attempt to “disprove” the lab leak theory — lends credence to heightened concerns about the promotion of a false COVID-19 origins narrative by multiple federal government agencies.
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Lab Leak Theory STILL Called ‘Misinformation’ By Establishment Scientists: Robby Soave
Robby Soave weighs in on a JAMA study in which scientists still refer to the lab leak theory as "misinformation."
Fauci was told of NIH ties to Wuhan lab’s novel coronaviruses by January 2020
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Posted: September 5, 2023 by Emily Kopp
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-nih-wuhan-coronaviruses/
Pentagon Forms Council to Assess Biothreats, Coordinate Response
August 17, 2023 at 10:04 AM EDT
Opinion In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet.
By the Editorial Board| August 22, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT
In January 2020, the system failed as the virus spread. This can be gleaned from documents and interviews conducted by Chinese journalists. They managed to capture a revelatory picture of the struggle by doctors and hospitals despite China’s strict limits on news reporting and its system of censorship. Gilles Demaneuf of the research group DRASTIC, which has been probing the origins of the virus, has compiled and translated these materials in a 193-page report he has shared with the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens. The report was made available to us. The findings are augmented by disclosures from U.S. Right to Know, a freedom-of-information group, and news accounts and congressional investigations in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/22/wuhan-doctors-pandemic-china-coverup/
MUDDY WATERS THE ORIGINS OF COVID-19 REPORT
April 17, 2023 PREPARED BY: DR.BOB KADLEC, BOB FOSTER, AND 117th GOP HELP COMMITTEE STAFF
https://www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/MWG-FDR-Document-04-11-23-EMBARGOED.pdf
FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
Posted: July 27, 2023 by Gary Ruskin
Limitations of the official 2019 Wuhan cases based on Primary Sources
Gilles Demaneuf ‘Paris Group’ and DRASTIC member - ‘Paris Group’ Presentation July 2023 (v1.1) Latest version available at https://bit.ly/IssuesEarlyWuhanCases https://bit.ly/PDF_IssuesWithEarlyWuhanCases
Gravitas: China's Covid Secret: Wuhan lab's deadly bioweapon experiment
WION Jun 12, 2023 #China #WION
Was the Wuhan virus pandemic a result of Chinese military's persuasion of bioweapons? A new report reveals that China was mixing two of the deadliest coronaviruses inside the Wuhan lab shortly before the outbreak. Molly Gambhir tells you more. #China #Wuhancovid #WION
Fauci was told of NIH ties to Wuhan lab’s novel coronaviruses by January 2020
Posted: September 5, 2023 by Emily Kopp
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-nih-wuhan-coronaviruses/
JUST IN: Rand Paul Asks Samantha Power: 'Did USAID Fund Coronavirus Research In Wuhan China?'
Forbes Breaking News Apr 26, 2023
At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned USAID Administrator Samantha Power. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Rep. McCormick on the COVID Origins Controversy
Rich McCormick Jul 11, 2023
It is increasingly likely that Covid originated in a Wuhan lab, where US tax dollars were used in cooperation with China to conduct experiments, from which it accidentally escaped containment to wreak havoc on the world. Saying this would get you censored and deplatformed a couple years ago. Any apologies from the media and politicians who silenced people?
Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover Up
SubjectInvestigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover UpDateJuly 11, 2023Time10:00 amPlace2154 Rayburn House Office BuildingSelect Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Witnesses and testimonies:Dr. Kristian Andersen
Professor, Scripps Research
Dr. Robert Garry
Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-proximal-origin-of-a-cover-up/
HOUSE REPUBLICANS ACCIDENTALLY RELEASED A TROVE OF DAMNING COVID DOCUMENTS
New documents show a scientist calling a lab leak “highly likely” — after drafting a paper claiming the opposite.
Ryan Grim July 12 2023, 5:18 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic@COVIDSelect·22h
Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and the co-authors of "Proximal Origin" suppressed and vilified the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis in favor of their preferred, coordinated narrative. ICYMI
Read our recent report detailing this alarming cover up: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Final-Report-6.pdf…4614128013.9K
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic@COVIDSelect
Transcribed interviews with every U.S.-based contributor to "Proximal Origin"
Dr. Kristian Andersen: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.06.16-Andersen-Transcript.pdf…
Dr. Robert Garry: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.06.09-Garry-Transcript-.pdf…
Dr. Ian Lipkin: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.04.06-Lipkin-Transcript.pdf…
Dr. Michael Farzan: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.04.21-Farzan-Transcript.pdf…2:46 PM ·
https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1679200700394270734
PERSPECTIVE
COVID propaganda vs. reality
US flying blind amid warnings of new COVID-19 surge
By multiple early indications, the United States has entered yet another surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, with wastewater levels, emergency room visits for COVID-19 and test positivity rates all on the rise across much of the country.
Between June 24 and July 12, the Biobot wastewater tracker showed a 46 percent increase nationally, concentrated in the South and on the coasts. According to one infectious disease modeler, these wastewater levels translate to roughly 280,000 Americans presently being infected with COVID-19 each day and rising.
INVESTIGATION
“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
BY KATHERINE EBAN MARCH 31, 2022
No evidence to support Covid lockdowns in Scotland during pandemic says new report
Nicola Sturgeon introduced a raft of stringent restrictions in Scotland but a new report for the Scottish Covid Inquiry suggests there was 'insufficient or no evidence' to suggest that lockdowns, social distancing and face masks had any impact on slowing the spread of the virus Comments21
ByDavid WalkerPolitics reporter
- 16:44, 14 JUL 2023
- UPDATED16:46, 14 JUL 2023
BuzzFeed-v.-HHS-20-cv-2704-2.17.22-Partial-Production_Redacted-part-2.pdf
NEW Emails EXPOSE Fauci's Lab Leak Disinformation Campaign, Report: Michael Shellenberger
The Hill Premiered Jun 30, 2023 #Fauci #covidorigins
Twitter files author Michael Shellenberger weighs in on recent leaked NIH emails. #Fauci #covidorigins
By Richard A. Muller | Commentary
‘The CT machines were crashing’: Interview with Wuhan doctor reveals early COVID cases were suppressed
Posted: July 10, 2023 by Emily Kopp
In an interview with a Chinese news outlet obtained by U.S. Right to Know, a frontline doctor in Wuhan reveals in new detail how some of the earliest COVID-19 cases were undercounted — spanning from pressure by authorities to limit positive tests, CT machines overheating from too many lung scans, and pressure to not create a paper trail.
Few were better positioned to observe the stark difference between the growing crisis and authorities’ assurances that the virus was not spreading than a radiologist reviewing CT scans of patients’ lungs at one of the first Wuhan hospitals to detect the new disease.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/wuhan-doctor-early-covid-cases-suppressed/
RESEARCH Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Notice of Award Issue Date: 05/27/2014
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES Grant Number: 1 RO 1 Al 110964-01 FAIN: R01Al110964
Principal lnvestigator(s): PETER DASZAK,PHD Project Title: Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence
It’s not just the office people don’t want to go to: COVID looks to have permanently severed something as school attendance plummets and keeps dropping
BYBIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 11, 2023 at 8:20 AM EDT
https://fortune.com/2023/08/11/school-chronic-absence-record-rates-skyrockets-kids-stay-home/
The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out
COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Should Not Be Ruled Out Says Former Head Of China’s CDC
Forbes Breaking News May 30, 2023
The former head of China’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said the theory that the coronavirus may have leaked from a lab should not be ruled out, BBC News reported, in an apparent divergence from the Chinese government’s vocal opposition to any suggestion that the pandemic may have originated from a lab. READ MORE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladity...
Covid: Top Chinese scientist says don’t rule out lab leak
By John Sudworth & Simon MaybinBBC News
The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has told BBC News.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65708746
Don’t rule out lab leak as possible origin of COVID-19, Chinese scientist says
By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 30, 2023
A top Chinese virologist says that a lab leak scenario should not be discounted as a possible origin of COVID-19.
George Gao, the former director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Protection, told the BBC that another branch of the Chinese government had investigated the lab leak theory for COVID-19.
“They haven’t found wrongdoing,” Mr. Gao said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/30/dont-rule-out-lab-leak-possible-origin-covid-19-ch/
Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Should Not Be Ruled Out Says Former Head Of China’s CDC
Siladitya Ray Forbes StaffCovering breaking news and tech policy stories at Forbes. May 30, 2023,02:50am EDT
Updated May 30, 2023, 03:44am EDT
TOPLINE
The former head of China’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said the theory that the coronavirus may have leaked from a lab should not be ruled out, BBC News reported, in an apparent divergence from the Chinese government’s vocal opposition to any suggestion that the pandemic may have originated from a lab.
英媒：新冠病毒起源于武汉科学家与解放军合造生化武器
2023.06.12 13:27 ET
中科院武汉病毒研究所
British media: The new crown virus originated from Wuhan scientists and the People's Liberation Army to create biochemical weapons
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/cm1-06122023123412.html
Scientists, Governments COVER-Up Lab Leaks ALL THE TIME: Investigative Journalist on Covid’s Origins
Scientists, governments cover-up lab leaks all the time: Investigative journalist on Covid’s origins
TOP NIH OFFICIAL ADVISED COVID SCIENTISTS THAT HE USES PERSONAL EMAIL TO EVADE FOIA
David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the NIH, told prominent scientists discussing Covid’s origins that he would delete emails.
Jimmy Tobias June 29 2023, 2:30 p.m.
A TOP ADVISER to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health admitted that he used a personal email account in an apparent effort to evade the strictures of the Freedom of Information Act, according to records obtained by congressional investigators probing the origin of Covid-19. The official also expressed his intention to delete emails in order to avoid media scrutiny.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/covid-nih-personal-email-foia/
OPINION ZEYNEP TUFEKCI
The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid’s Origins
June 21, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opinion/covid-lab-leak-origins.html
U.S. spy agencies remain divided on whether the Covid-19 virus passed to humans via an infected animal or laboratory accident.
DECLASSIFIED by DNI Haines on 23 June 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (U) This report responds to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which called for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to declassify information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines the IC’s understanding of the WIV, its capabilities, and the actions of its personnel leading up to and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological facilities in Wuhan other than the WIV. A classified annex to this report includes information that was necessary to exclude from the unclassified portion of this report in order to protect sources and methods, but the information contained in the annex is consistent with the unclassified assessments contained in this report. (U) This report was drafted by the National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation and coordinated with the IC.
Has COVID’s Patient Zero Finally Been Named?
A major revelation about researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology emerged this week. We still can’t say we’re any closer to the truth.
By Daniel Engber JUNE 23, 2023, 7 AM ET
HEALTH
Enough Gaslighting. We Absolutely Need to Know Where COVID Came From | Opinion
NATHAN J. ROBINSON , EDITOR IN CHIEF OF CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE ON 6/27/23 AT 7:00 PM EDT
Senate full document
Dr. John Campbell Apr 19, 2023
Lab leak, US senate report https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new... The 300-page report, released to Axios Pandemic, most likely "research-related incident" in Wuhan WIV may have begun developing two Covid vaccines in November 2019 "means SARS-CoV-2 would have been present at the WIV before the known outbreak of the pandemic." Theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market, no longer deserved "presumption of accuracy" Advocates of natural transmission theory, "must provide clear and convincing evidence" for their argument. "The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident, that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research." Only one place, only one time Richard Burr report from last October https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media... FBI Director Christopher Wray (Feb 2023) "most likely" resulted from a potential lab leak in Wuhan Department of Energy Full 300 page document https://www.documentcloud.org/documen... MWG executive summary, April 16 2023 https://www.documentcloud.org/documen... Epidemiology Favors (Early) Mid October-Early November Emergence China’s official position is that the COVID-19 outbreak began no earlier than December 8, 2019. An increase in adult Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) accompanied by negative results, statistically significantly higher than reported in the previous 5 years Eyewitness accounts, media reports, epidemiological modeling and additional academic studies, car parking, internet searches October to November 2019 The disease worsened in November.” Several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, loss of smell and ground-glass opacities in his lungs Precedent of Zoonotic Spillovers & Likelihood of an Animal Origin Failed animal-to-human transmissions, or “dead-end” spillovers, typically leave behind serological evidence. It would be expected that environmental samples collected from wet markets that were positive for SARS-CoV-2 would likely show evidence of animal genetic adaptation. China CDC Analyzed 1,380 samples, environment (923) animals (457) 73 SARS-CoV-2 positive environmental samples. None of the samples taken from the 18 animal species found in the market were positive for SARS- CoV-2. The three live viruses were sequenced, 99.980% to 99.993% similarity with human isolates Unlike the 2003 SARS outbreak, H7N9 influenza, (China March 2013) Multiple independent viral introductions, time and place China, no infection or positive serological sample(s) of any susceptible animal prior to the recognized outbreak. Plausibility of a Research-related Incident & Laboratory-acquired infections Professor Yusen Zhou of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) filed a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on February 24, 2020 “uncertainties” surrounding the death of Prof Zhou, (died spring 2020) Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) might have been selling laboratory animals for human consumption WIV, experimenting on palm civets (29 per month were sold at the 17 wet markets in Wuhan) (January 3, 2020, a professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing was sentenced for corruption, and for selling animals and animal products after laboratory experiments) Summation of Events Leading to the Pandemic EcoHealth Alliance with the WIV, Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses These experiments could create chimeric SARS-related viruses with Furin cleavage sites unknown in nature Wuhan scientists filed 13 patents to improve biosecurity in the six months before the pandemic E.g maintaining airtight seals on doors, ways of improving sterilisers and air filters Scientists were working with centrifuges that could have sprayed the virus into the air On November 19, 2019, Wuhan scientists were to attend mandatory biosecurity training Taught by official from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Session followed by remedial biosafety training course for WIV researchers Wuhan officials carried out an emergency airport drill on Sept 18, 2019, to identify passengers infected with novel coronavirus China’s National People’s Congress drafted legislation to strengthen the management of laboratories Pandemic may have been started by two spillover events, two weeks apart, minor genetic differences in early circulating strains, suggesting two lineages Mid-October to mid-November 2019 WIV collected 20,000 bat and animal samples by 2019, but did not disclose all of the viruses Before 2019, the WIV published sequences in a public database, taken offline in September 2019
Muddy Waters Group Investigation Executive Summary..
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23780776-mwg-fdr-document-04-16-23
Chinese Lab Developed COVID-19 Virus, Senate Report Claims
BY TYLER DURDENWEDNESDAY, APR 19, 2023 - 06:20 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chinese-lab-developed-covid-19-virus-senate-report-claims
An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic Interim Report
Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff October 2022
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/report_an_analysis_of_the_origins_of_covid-19_102722.pdf
Why would our government keep awarding contracts to EcoHealth Alliance?
They used taxpayer dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
April 22, 2023 | 10:15 pm SCIENCE & TECH
https://thespectator.com/topic/government-contracts-ecohealth-alliance-covid-pandemic-wuhan/
"Something Clearly Went Wrong" - Fauci & Friends Desperately Try To 'Close The Book' On COVID
BY TYLER DURDENSATURDAY, APR 29, 2023 - 05:00 PM
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com,
If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them.
While fingers are pointed at Trump and Fauci, the virus was an unbeaten foe.
Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen ‘thrown to his death’ at Wuhan lab for leaking COVID lab information
Glen OwenDaily MailJune 18, 2023 3:29AM
Paul: We Know That First Days of the Pandemic Fauci ‘Orchestrated an Elaborate Cover-Up’
TABLETOP EXERCISE Event 201
This training tabletop exercise is based on a fictional scenario. The inputs experts used for modeling the potential impact were fictional. It is a teaching and training resource for public health and government officials.
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out
Lab Leak 100%? Covid ‘Patients Zero’ Were WUHAN LAB Docs Doing GAIN-OF-FUNCTION: Shellenberger
Twitter files author Michael Shellenberger discusses new reporting on "patients zero." #covid19 #pandemic About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers.
DOCUMENTS LINK POTENTIAL COVID PATIENT ZERO TO U.S.-FUNDED RESEARCH IN WUHAN
New reporting, attributed to U.S. government sources, identified a coronavirus researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in November 2019.
Ryan GrimJune 17 2023, 9:34 a.m.
ONE OF THE first Wuhan researchers reportedly sickened with Covid in fall 2019, Ben Hu, was getting U.S. financial support for risky gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the transparency advocacy organization White Coat Waste Project.
The funding came in three grants totaling $41 million, doled out by USAID and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, the agency then headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Hu is listed as an investigator on the grants.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/covid-origin-wuhan-patient-zero/
It’s becoming undeniable: COVID came from a Chinese lab
By Post Editorial BoardJune 17, 2023 7:46pm Updated
Rand Paul@RandPaul"Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus."Quote TweetMichael Shellenberger@shellenberger·Jun 13 After years of official claims to the contrary, strong new evidence suggests the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a Chinese lab. According to multiple sources, the researchers who led gain-of-function research, which increases infectiousness, were the first to be infected.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1669023284212506632
DRASTIC Founder Renounces Lab Leak Theory of COVID’s Origins
The testimony of DRASTIC founder J.J. Couey provides powerful firsthand insight into the perpetuation of the lab leak theory as a controlled opposition narrative.
MICHAEL P SENGER DEC 8, 2022
https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/drastic-founder-renounces-lab-leak
State Department cables: Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted classified research
Posted: June 14, 2023 by Emily Kopp
Three previously unreleased State Department cables obtained by U.S. Right to Know include new information about classified research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
One cable alleges evidence of connections between China’s biotechnology sector and the People’s Liberation Army, including “cyber evidence” of “PLA shadow labs at WIV,” the PLA’s involvement with the construction of the lab and subsequent presence there, and “WIV personnel with possible PLA ties.”
A second cable appears to address the blurring of civilian and military research — specifically Beijing’s emphasis on “military-civil fusion,” or MCF — in the world of biotech.
A third cable details the way in which Beijing authorities, rather than local apparatchiks, censored the spiraling pandemic in critical early days, with devastating consequences: “Initial Outbreak Could Have Been Contained in China if Beijing Had Not Covered It Up,” it reads.
The cables were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department.
The cables may represent some of the research that informs a 2021 statement from the State Department that “the WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.”
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/cables-wuhan-institute-of-virology-classified-research/
Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study
Posted: August 9, 2022 by Emily Kopp
A prominent scientist who has denounced a congressional investigation into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan Institute of Virology gain-of-function work flagged by congressional investigators.
Peter Hotez, dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, has been a fierce critic of potential hearings next year into a possible lab origin of COVID-19 and whether the National Institutes of Health prematurely discredited the hypothesis.
Hotez decried the hearings as nothing less than “a plan to undermine the fabric of science in America” in a viral tweet thread last week. Hotez also dismissed as an “outlandish conspiracy” the possibility that a lab accident sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, Hotez’s own 2012 to 2017 NIH grant for the development of a SARS vaccine had the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,” in addition to a possible zoonotic spillover of the virus.
“A COMPLEX AND GRAVE SITUATION”
“A COMPLEX AND GRAVE SITUATION” This report draws on numerous sources published in English and Chinese to examine the posture taken by the authorities of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) toward biosecurity, biosafety, and public health starting from 2018 until 2021. Its primary focus is on tracing the authorities’ response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as it progressed from a localized outbreak to a national epidemic to a full-fledged pandemic.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Senator Rubio is grateful for the staff, fellows, and outside experts who worked for countless months to connect the dots. A special thanks goes to the Project 2049 Institute, an organization co-founded by former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Randall G. Schriver. Schriver and his team, including Ian Easton, Alice Cho, and Kendal Walker, provided invaluable technical assistance on the compilation and review of this report.
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/COVID-Origins-Full-Report-EMBARGOED.pdf
COVID-19 Most Likely Emerged From Wuhan Lab, Rubio Report Says
Chinese scientists expressed concern about lab leaks as early as 2017, the report states
Joseph Simonson May 17, 2023
Cancer mystery as cases rise among younger people around the world
The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn't entirely clear, but it may be due to some aspects of modern life
By Clare Wilson
29 March 2023
Covid Hearing Highlights How Politics DELAYED Origin Investigations: Report
The Hill #covid19 #covidorigins #lableak• #covid19 #covidorigins #lableakJournalist Emily Kopp on the House's second hearing on the origins of Covid-19 held yesterday. #covid19 #covidorigins #lableak
BREAKING NEWS: Jim Jordan Grills Ex-DNI Why Fauci Quashed Lab Leak Theory
Forbes Breaking News Apr 18, 2023
At today's House Select Committee on the Coronavirus hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) questioned witnesses about the lab leak theory.
Biotech-WARS™ BiotecWARS™ BiotechSTORM™
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
JUST IN: Rand Paul Directly Confronts Antony Blinken About COVID-19 Research Funding Records
Forbes Breaking News Mar 22, 2023
At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about records on COVID-19 research funding.
Speaking from personal experience, if you ask a life science professor what they think of this exchange, they will respond in a quick and dismissive manner with one or more of the statements below (or derivatives of these statements). (1) "I don't know what you are talking about" (2) "I haven't paid attention to all that" (3) "I don't have time for politics" (4) "was this that Republican witch hunt?"Quote Tweet
https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1640767765530247171
Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson·
Mar 27Biden Sec. of State Antony Blinken SOILS his pants after Rand Paul GRILLS him like skewer for covering up COVID origins
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1640414217575493635
https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1640767765530247171
Discovery of a novel merbecovirus DNA clone contaminating agricultural rice sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China
View ORCID ProfileAdrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang, Steven E. Massey, View ORCID ProfileYuri Deigin, View ORCID ProfileLouis R. Nemzer, View ORCID ProfileSteven C. Quaydoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.12.528210
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Classified report reignites debate over COVID origins
CBS News Feb 27, 2023
An Energy Department classified report has concluded with "low confidence" that it is plausible COVID-19 accidentally leaked out of a laboratory in China. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane and CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang join "Red and Blue" to discuss the ramifications of the finding.
John Kirby Warns 'Not a Consensus' on COVID Origins Following Report
BY ANDREW STANTON ON 2/27/23 AT 6:02 PM EST
Kirby's remarks come after the Department of Energy reportedly concluded the virus most likely stemmed from a lab leak in Wuhan.
The real Covid conspiracy
Supine scientists such as Jeremy Farrar are being let off the hook
BY IAN BIRRELL March 11, 2023
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-real-covid-conspiracy/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Gravitas: Wuhan Lab Leak theory resurfaces
WION Feb 27, 2023 #Gravitas #Covid19
The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that COVID-19 most likely emerged from a Chinese research lab leak. The origin story has gone from "conspiracy theory" to a government debate. Molly Gambhir reports.
#Gravitas #Covid19 #WuhanLabLeak
Treason of the Science Journals
How Anthony Fauci manufactured consensus on the origins of COVID-19 with the help of science writers and the media
BY ASHLEY RINDSBERG MARCH 08, 2023
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/treason-science-journals
Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is interviewed by CBS News about the Trump administration’s response to the global coronavirus outbreak outside the White House on March 12, 2020
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
- WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY
Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says
Energy Department’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence
By Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel Feb. 26, 2023 7:00 am ET
A campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, in 2020.PHOTO: HECTOR RETAMAL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.
The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.
The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.
The Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak, according to a classified intelligence report
wsj.com
WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
The Energy Department joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was...
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1629851338069667841
Each new revelation is a reminder of how little is actually known.
DANIEL ENGBER FEBRUARY 28, 2023, 12:08 AM ET
We’re still pretending to know things about COVID that we don’t.
Regardless of whether Covid-19 escaped from a research facility, another deadly virus very well might.
By The Editorial Board | Review & Outlook
Where the World’s at in the Hunt for the Origins of Covid-19
FBI Director Wray Says Covid-19 Likely Came From Chinese Lab
Other US agencies have come to different conclusions from the FBI on how the pandemic began.
Gilles Demaneuf Apr 27, 2022
BSL Laboratories in Wuhan and their roles in coronaviruses research
A study by the DRASTIC collective
Overview:
In 2019 in Wuhan, there were nine sites with biosafety laboratories of level 2 (BSL-2) and above, including six sites with BSL-3 laboratories and one site with a BSL-4 laboratory.
This number is not abnormal for a city of about 10 million inhabitants. However, the creation of these labs is recent. The constructions of the BSL-3 laboratories in Wuhan have been, and still is, the subject of significant and rapid development.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
The failure to investigate the origins of the virus, not No 10 parties, is the real Covid scandal
What was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology must be examined openly and thoroughly
ROSS CLARK 24 November 2022 • 1:42pm
Avery large scandal has emerged relating to Covid-19, and this time it doesn’t involve a single Downing Street party. Emails have emerged which show that government scientists and other prominent figures in the field of genetics had their suspicions back at the beginning of 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 may have had a laboratory origin — but that rather than share their suspicions with the world they were happy to go along with efforts to effectively suppress this theory....
Top British scientist who publicly dismissed Covid lab leak theory had privately condemned 'Wild West' research being carried out in Wuhan
- Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, admitted to fears the virus might have been tied to research taking place in city where it first appeared
- Emails also show Anthony Fauci was alarmed by unusual feature of coronavirus
- He advised colleagues that they might need to tip off the FBI and MI5
- Revelations are latest development in mystery of how the pandemic was caused
By IAN BIRRELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 06:54 EST, 24 November 2022 | UPDATED: 10:35 EST, 24 November 2022
Watch: Fauci Again Defends Chinese Lockdowns
BY TYLER DURDENTUESDAY, NOV 29, 2022 - 03:00 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
Anthony Fauci once again defended brutal Chinese lockdowns, admitting that the Communist government is forcefully locking people inside buildings but adding that if it means people get vaccinated then he is “okay” with it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-fauci-again-defends-chinese-lockdowns
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
kanekoa.substack.com@KanekoaTheGreat
And here's Fauci announcing the NIH lifted its funding pause on gain-of-function research on January 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1608355782223093760
And here's a 2016 speech by Fauci's conduit to the Wuhan lab explaining exactly how the lab would make Covid.
twitter.com/davidsacks/sta…1:54 AM · Dec 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1608328412262719490
Nice to see #ExposeFauci getting new attention! 250k+ views in last few hours. All eyes on Fauci right now #FauciFiles @elonmusk
From Eric Spracklen 6:37 PM · Dec 28, 2022
https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1608245734318424065
‘Very Suspicious:’ Chinese Virologist Casts Doubt on Timing of CCP’s U-turn on Zero-Covid
By Dorothy Li and Steve Lance January 9, 2023 Updated: January 10, 2023
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
JUST IN: Rand Paul Directly Confronts Top Biden Official On Funding Virus Studies In China
Forbes Breaking News Feb 9, 2023
At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Covid could have started earlier than thought
Nov 1, 2022 Just when did the covid virus start spreading around the world? Senator’s report on viral origins (Richard Burr) https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media... Section III China’s early COVID-19 Vaccine Development versus the U.S. Operation Warp Speed Full genetic sequence, SARS-CoV-2 First posted, global virus database, January 11, 2020 Chinese professor, violated government restrictions Then Vaccine developers inserted viral genome into cells to produce viral proteins Preclinical animal toxicity Safety and efficacy studies Human clinical safety and efficacy trials Commercial scale vaccine production. Operation Warp Speed Pre OWS work started on January 11, 2020 E.g. Adenovirus vector vaccines The AstraZeneca-Oxford, went from sequence to phase I clinical trials in 103 days (Ebola platform) J and J was 185 days Three adenovirus vector vaccines Pfizer trail started 7th May 2020 Another Chinese vaccine was patented on 24th February 2020 (Brigadier General Yusen Zhou, Academy of Military Medical Sciences) Question Did Chinese researchers have access to the genomic sequence before January 11, 2020? If so, how far in advance of January 11, 2020? MEP Cristian Terhes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTgD... In the case of Pfizer Submitted a clinical trial that started in 14th January 2020 Three days later Pfizer already started a test for these vaccines Moderna Trials since 2017 https://www.modernatx.com/en-US/about... https://apnews.com/article/fact-check... https://www.riotimesonline.com/wp-con... https://patentimages.storage.googleap... Virus shares a sequence of 19 nucleotides with Moderna genome Part of spike protein Coincidence or not a coincidence? (Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Uracil)
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Lab leak conspiracy theory
Dr. John Campbell Nov 24, 2022
I feel let down and apologise if I have misled anyone https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la... We are public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. https://www.nature.com/articles/S4159...
Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. Conclusion Obtaining related viral sequences from animal sources would be the most definitive way of revealing viral origins. (Fully formed or evolutionary intermediate) UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory - weeks after being told it might be true Sir Patrick Vallance among scientists behind paper that stifled debate into the origins of the virus https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZz9...
Top scientists including Sir Patrick Vallance, Were warned that virus could have evolved in lab animals Collaborated in above paper Debate therefore stifled To date Proximal origins paper Accessed more than 5.7 million times and cited in 2,627 subsequent papers. Emails from early 2020 FoI request, James Tobias, freelance journalist Authors held lengthy discussions with experts, Sir Patrick and Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust Warned WIV had been carrying out research on bat-coronaviruses, at worrying levels of biosecurity. Research to alter Sars-like bat coronaviruses had been taking place for many years in Wuhan (not mentioned in paper) Sir Jeremy Farrar, (Wellcome) Wuhan was like the "Wild West". Prof Kristian Andersen, Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California (lead author) had earlier told colleagues that features of the virus looked as if they’d been engineered in a lab. (No mention of this was made in the paper) Dr Jeremy Farrar, (Wellcome) It is important that we understand how all pathogens emerge so that we can prevent future pandemics as the efforts to gather evidence continue, it is important to stay open-minded Serial passaging Would cause the virus to contain o-glycans The second notable feature of SARS-CoV-2 is a polybasic cleavage site (RRAR) at the junction of S1 and S2 Prof Ron Fouchier, Dutch virologist (from another e mail chain) It is good that this possibility was discussed in detail with a team of experts. However, further debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from active duties, and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular February 8th e mail Prof Edward Holmes (one of the authors) Ever since this outbreak started there have been suggestions that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, if only because of the coincidence of where the outbreak occurred and the location of the lab. I do a lot of work in China and I can tell you a lot of people there believe this and believe they are being lied to Prof Kristian Andersen, February 8th (Lead author) Passage of Sars-live coronaviruses have been going on for several years and more specifically in Wuhan under BSL-2 conditions BSL-2 laboratories are used to study moderate-risk infectious agents or toxins such as salmonella. Serious diseases should be handled in BSL-3 or 4 labs. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) Importing bat coronaviruses from areas of China which hold the closest viruses to Covid-19 Had also applied for funding to manipulate viruses by inserting a furin cleavage site (FCS) The email chain Involved Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an organisation which was funding research at the Wuhan lab. Senate report on viral origins the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of a research-related incident https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media... https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/new-evi... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Dec. 20, 2019 to Jan. 18, 2020 Searches for flu-like symptoms Differs from Previous Natural Zoonotic Spill overs Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Lack of intermediate bats to humans Influenza H7N9 (2019) multiple independent introductions across multiple locations Geographically disparate, independent spill overs of H7N9
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
UNCLASSIFIED UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE MINORITY UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of the SECOND INTERIM REPORT ON THE ORIGINS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Part I:
• The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the country, with almost every household feeling its effects. The United States’ death toll from this virus has surpassed one million people. Although concrete data is hard to lock down, millions of Americans are suffering from the long-term effects directly attributed to this virus. COVID-19 has also negatively affected communities, especially our school systems. It is becoming increasingly clear that school-age children face major educational hurdles because of long-term school closures. The American public deserves answers to every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic, including how this pandemic started and specifically whether it was a natural occurrence or was the result of a lab-related event. This Committee is uniquely positioned to assist in answering the questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19. This unclassified report attempts to add to the discourse of COVID-19 origins with the understanding that information held by the United States Intelligence Community (IC) that has yet to be shared with this Committee could be useful in making a final determination of the question of whether the origin of this pandemic was natural or lab-related.
• In direct contrast to media skepticism in the early days of the pandemic, the scientific community now largely accepts as feasible that the COVID-19 pandemic may have emerged from a lab-related event involving Chinese scientists experimenting with coronaviruses. Scientists have called for additional investigations and broader government cooperation to address the issue. Since the People’s Republic of China has not been transparent in sharing information, the IC is uniquely situated to provide relevant information. However, the IC has thus far failed to inform the public and failed to keep its Congressional oversight committees fully informed about what it knows. The IC owes the American people greater transparency on the information it already has and must be fully transparent to those in Congress with oversight responsibility.
• Based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The IC has failed to adequately address this information. The Committee has not seen any indications that the Chinese military intentionally released SARS-CoV-2.
• Omissions in the IC’s declassified version of its Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (Updated Assessment) were misleading on key issues. One of the IC’s three primary tasks in its 90-day assessment of the virus’s origins was to evaluate the virus’s potential connections to biological weapons programs. The declassified report claimed the IC was able to reach “broad agreement” that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon. Despite the fact the IC relayed its confidence levels for nearly every other assessment in the declassified report – low confidence, moderate confidence, etc. – the IC failed to disclose to the public its confidence level regarding this bioweapons assessment.
* The IC’s declassified version also withheld other key information from the public that was in the classified version. The Committee believes that this vital information could have been included in the declassified version without harming national security. In fact, these omissions likely skewed the public’s understanding of key issues. The IC should be transparent regarding what it does or does not know regarding the relationship between the PLA’s Fifth Institute of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), which China has publicly admitted conducts bioweapons research and coronavirus experiments, and the WIV, particularly during 2019.
• In addition to the problems with the IC’s declassified version of the Updated Assessment, the classified version provided to Congress omits additional vital information and dismisses important intelligence in a cursory manner. The IC also failed to correct claims in the classified Updated Assessment when additional clarifying and important information became available, information that undermined a key assertion in the report.
• The IC has failed to comply with numerous requests for more information on these issues. The Committee will continue to press the IC to share the information it has and to explain why information was omitted from the declassified and classified reports
.• Members will seek to declassify the full classified version of our investigative report on this matter. Regardless, the IC should, on its own, declassify and release to the public all relevant information it may have about: the AMMS and biological weapons; the history of China’s biological weapons plans and proposals; the nature and timing of experiments by military scientists at the WIV in 2019; and Fifth Institute scientist General Zhou Yusen, who has since died under questionable circumstances.
https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_unclass_summary_-_covid_origins_report_.pdf
Alina Chan@Ayjchan
The Republicans are saying there is classified intel that a scientist PLA General, who collaborated with WIV, died under questionable circumstances after filing for a patent on a COVID-19 vaccine in an "improbably fast timeline". https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_unclass_summary_-_covid_origins_report_.pdf…12:12 PM · Dec 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1603800320940933121
Virology in Peril and the Greater Risk To Science Published 15 December 2022
JULY 12, 2022|JUDICIAL WATCH
Judicial Watch: NIH Records Reveal FBI Inquiry of Wuhan Grant
Records Show Fauci Agency ‘Gain-of-Function’ Concerns about Wuhan Lab Going Back to 2016
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 1651 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealing an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/nih-fbi-inquiry-of-wuhan-grant/
https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-nih-records-reveal-fbi-inquiry-of-wuhan-grant/
The records also show EcoHealth Alliance’s legal team suggesting that a records request for data on their bat coronavirus research in Wuhan be denied because of the January 6 disturbance.
Judicial Watch obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-00696)).
US Senate, lab origin most likely
Oct 31, 2022 Senate report on COVID coronavirus origins the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of a research-related incident https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media... Dec. 20, 2019 to Jan. 18, 2020 Searches for flu-like symptoms Cases probably started mid October, 2019 Analysis of Natural Zoonotic Origins Hypothesis Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Lack of intermediate bats to humans Virus likely needed to circulate in an intermediate host An animal virus must evolve to gain human infecting potential Closest virus is in horseshoe bats residing in Southern China or Southeast Asia Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Differs from Previous Natural Zoonotic Spill overs Lack of dead ends spill over events, no epidemiological train in animals or humans Influenza Infected poultry and birds always found H7N9 (2019) multiple independent introductions across multiple locations Geographically disparate, independent spill overs of H7N9 Avian Influenza had circulated in bird populations, time and several provinces in China before the first known human infections SARS epidemic At least five independent spill overs of the SARS virus into humans Live animal markets followed by human to human E.g. Guangdong Province, November 2002 to January 2003 SARS, later on in 2003 – 2004 Additional independent subsequent spill over infections in humans Civets identified within 6 months Early SARS viral samples from humans contained genetic mutations that reflected prior circulation and adaptation in palm civets In total contrast Chinese government, asserted that the COVID-19 originated from a natural zoonotic transmission occurring at the Huanan market Geo-temporal spread of COVID-19 in China, December 31, 2019 to February 11, 2020 Earliest identified SARS-CoV-2 well-adapted for human-to-human transmission Early SARS-CoV-2 variants had little genetic diversity, 2 nucleotides out of 29,900 (Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Uracil) No evidence of previous intermediate host circulation Genetic similarity between the environmental samples and human viral samples, supports the likelihood that the virus found at the Huanan Seafood Market was shed by humans Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, to address pandemic preparedness and response programs Interim report, to examine the two prevailing theories of origin Last fifteen months Reviewed several hundred scientific studies, interviewed several dozen subject matter experts, analyzed previous reports and studies. The lack of transparency and collaboration from government and public health officials in the People’s Republic of China with respect to the origins of SARS-CoV-2 prevents reaching a more definitive conclusion. I hope this report will guide the World Health Organization and other international institutions Introduction Challenging Since January 3, 2020, People’s Republic of China (PRC) have prohibited sharing or publishing any information on SARS-CoV-2 without state review and approval. Establishing timeline, is difficult Mid October, 2019
An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interim Report Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff October 2022
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/report_an_analysis_of_the_origins_of_covid-19_102722.pdf
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic Interim Report
Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff
October 2022
Conclusion
As noted by the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, the COVID19 Lancet Commission, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence 90-Day Assessment on the COVID-19 Origins, more information is needed to arrive at a more precise, if not a definitive, understanding of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how the COVID-19 pandemic began.225 Governments, leaders, public health officials, and scientists involved in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and working to prevent future pandemics, must commit to greater transparency, engagement, and responsibility in their efforts.
Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy. The following are critical outstanding questions that would need to be addressed to be able to more definitively conclude the origins of SARS-CoV-2:
What is the intermediate host species for SARS-CoV-2? Where did it first infect humans?
Where is SARS-CoV-2’s viral reservoir?
How did SARS-CoV-2 acquire its unique genetic features, such as its furin cleavage site?
Advocates of a zoonotic origin theory must provide clear and convincing evidence that a natural zoonotic spillover is the source of the pandemic, as was demonstrated for the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak. In other words, there needs to be verifiable evidence that a natural zoonotic spillover actually occurred, not simply that such a spillover could have occurred.
An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic Interim Report
Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff
October 2022
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/report_an_analysis_of_the_origins_of_covid-19_102722.pdf
US Senate, lab origin most likely
Dr. John Campbell Oct 31, 2022
Senate report on COVID coronavirus origins the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of a research-related incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJt5jC5gbY
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Boston University develops more lethal COVID strain to study omicron
Oct 18, 2022 ABC7
Boston University researchers say they've developed a new, more lethal strain of COVID that killed 80% of the mice infected with it. Researchers say their study will help them better understand the omicron variant and come up with new treatments.
...Gain-Of-Function Experiments At Boston University Create A Deadly New Covid-19 Virus. Who
HEALTHCARE Forbes Steven Salzberg Contributor Oct 24, 2022,07:30am EDT
News that Boston University created a lethal COVID strain ‘sensationalized’ and misrepresented, microbiologist says
- Updated: Oct. 18, 2022, 12:47 p.m.| Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 10:19 a.m.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. (NIAID/TNS) TNSTNS
By Ryan Mancini | RMancini@masslive.com
Boston University is defending its research after a report studying the COVID-19 omicron variant’s lower severe infection rate was met with criticism among news outlets and one of its financial backers.
Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron
Da-Yuan Chen, Devin Kenney, Chue Vin Chin, Alexander H. Tavares, Nazimuddin Khan, Hasahn L. Conway, GuanQun Liu, Manish C. Choudhary, Hans P. Gertje, Aoife K. O’Connell, Darrell N. Kotton, Alexandra Herrmann, View ORCID ProfileArmin Ensser, John H. Connor, Markus Bosmann, Jonathan Z. Li, Michaela U. Gack, Susan C. Baker, Robert N. Kirchdoerfer, Yachana Kataria, Nicholas A. Crossland, Florian Douam, Mohsan Saeeddoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full
CBS-Boston via Yahoo News
Boston University says COVID strain created in lab is not more dangerous
CBS-Boston via Yahoo News
Boston University refutes report that lab created dangerous COVID strain
War Of Words: Experts Slam Boston University For Developing New COVID Strain; School Denies...
Mashable· The horror of the coronavirus continues, with terrifying news from Boston University in the United...
NIH investigates Boston University COVID experiments amid controversy
CBS News· The National Institutes of Health is now examining whether experiments performed at Boston ...
Federal Gov’t Is Not Happy With Boston University’s Lab-Made COVID Strain
The Daily Beast· “This research made the virus replicate less dangerous,” the school said in a statement, refuting...
OCTOBER 25, 20227:44 AM UPDATED 9 HOURS AGO
Fact Check-Boston University hybrid COVID virus kills 80% of mice, not people
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-boston-virus-idUSL1N31Q0ZK
Boston University COVID researchers combine omicron spike protein with original virus, test strain on mice
RICK SOBEY BOSTON HERALD UPDATED OCTOBER 18, 2022 12:59 PM
Read more at: https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article267486713.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article267486713.html
A pandemic worse than COVID-19? Boston University researchers create new, more lethal coronavirus strain in lab
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This is the most shocking news for a world that has lost so much to a pandemic that we are battling for the third year in a row.
EcoHealth Alliance and Boston University Awarded $1 Million to Predict and Prevent Future Pandemics
NEW YORK – 30, AUGUST, 2022 – EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), in partnership with Boston University, was awarded a $1 million Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase I (PIPP) grant by the National Science Foundation. The team of scientists will strategize methods of early infectious disease detection and intervention.
“EcoHealth has championed analytical approaches to predicting pandemics for the last 25 years. This new collaboration with global leaders at BU & our own leaders in emerging disease research takes our work to the next level” said EcoHealth Alliance President, Dr. Peter Daszak.
New Lab-Made Covid-19 Coronavirus At Boston University Raises Questions Forbes
Boston University COVID researchers combine omicron spike protein with original virus, test strain
Wall Street Silver@WallStreetSilv·Oct 17
When and where will they "accidentally" release it…?
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1582063733488001025
Top NIH director admits Boston lab that created new COVID strain did NOT clear research with agency... and only learned of details on DailyMail.com
- Dr Emily Erbelding, a director at NIAID, said she was unaware of specific details of the research
- She claims to have only found out the experiments may have involved enhancing pathogens on Monday
- Grants totalling $1.1million from NIAID are listed as having helped fund the research at Boston University
- But a spokesman today said they were included as a 'courtesy' and not funded by the government agency
- They said this meant Boston University did not need to clear the research with NIAID officials
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:06 EDT, 18 October 2022 | UPDATED: 17:17 EDT, 18 October 2022
A senior US health official today admitted that controversial Covid manipulation research carried out in a laboratory in Boston was not authorized — despite being funded by taxpayer money.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed yesterday that a team from Boston University had developed a hybrid Covid virus — combining the Omicron and original Wuhan strains — which had an 80 per cent lethality rate.
Public records indicate it was partly paid for using a grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the federal government's main research agencies.
The above passage from the paper shows that the research used money from NIAID and NIH grants. It was funded by Boston University, which they said meant they did not need to contact NIAID to get clearance for the work
In the new research , which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron's spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells. It has always been present but it has become more evolved over time. Omicron has dozens of mutations in its spike protein that made it so infectious. Researchers attached Omicron's spike protein to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. The researchers looked at how mice fared under the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant
Outcry as British researcher is given ANOTHER US grant to investigate COVID - despite fears his initial work at Wuhan lab triggered pandemic: Peter Daszak is paid $650,000 to study bat coronaviruses - and 'assess their ability to infect humans'
- The EcoHealth Alliance was awarded a new $650,000, 5-year grant in August
- The funding will see the group study coronaviruses and bats in southeast Asia
- It's the same type of research that many believe is linked to Covid's origin
- The EcoHealth Alliance was previously known to use the Wuhan Institute of Virology in its research
By PAUL FARRELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:55 EDT, 3 October 2022 | UPDATED: 11:24 EDT, 3 October 2022
The Lancet Opens Pandora's Box, Suggests COVID Could Have Originated In US Labs
BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, SEP 15, 2022 - 02:40 PM
After providing a platform for a massive 'Natural Origins' Covid-19 disinformation campaign by EcoHealth Alliance head Peter Daszak, The Lancet appears to have done a 180 - suggesting Covid-19 may have originated "in US laboratories engaged in the laboratory manipulation of SARS-CoV-like viruses," among other possibilities.
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
https://covid19commission.org/
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The World Needs to Know What Happened at the Wuhan Lab
Was the coronavirus manipulated to infect humans? If so, that will inform our response.
By Robert Redfield and Marc Siegel Aug. 15, 2021 3:34 pm ET
US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019.
CHINA Zachary Stieber Aug 20, 2022
Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight. Current Affairs
filed 02 August 2022 in THE VIRUS
Peter Daszak Awarded Another $650,000 to Study Bat Coronaviruses and ‘Assess Their Ability to Infect Humans’
The fundamental hypocrisy of the biomedical security state on the subject of Covid's origins
Outcry as British researcher is given ANOTHER US grant to investigate COVID - despite fears his initial work at Wuhan lab triggered pandemic: Peter Daszak is paid $650,000 to study bat coronaviruses - and 'assess their ability to infect humans'
- The EcoHealth Alliance was awarded a new $650,000, 5-year grant in August
- The funding will see the group study coronaviruses and bats in southeast Asia
- It's the same type of research that many believe is linked to Covid's origin
- The EcoHealth Alliance was previously known to use the Wuhan Institute of Virology in its research
By PAUL FARRELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:55 EDT, 3 October 2022 | UPDATED: 11:24 EDT, 3 October 2022
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Amid false Russian allegations of US “biolabs” in Ukraine, it’s worth asking: What is a bioweapon?
By Matt Field | March 25, 2022
The origins of SARS-CoV-2: still to be determined
By Laura H. Kahn | March 10, 2022
https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/the-origins-of-sars-cov-2-still-to-be-determined/
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story.
The accident and a subsequent cover-up have renewed relevance as scientists search for the origins of Covid-19.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/europe/coronavirus-lab-anthrax.html
We Study Virus Evolution. Here’s Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going.
March 28, 2022
By Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, Tyler Starr and Nathaniel Lash
Dr. Cobey studies the interaction of immunity, virus evolution and transmission at the University of Chicago. Dr. Bloom and Dr. Starr study virus evolution at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Mr. Lash is a graphics editor for Opinion.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/28/opinion/coronavirus-mutation-future.html
Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
Home Coronavirus Excess mortality
by Charlie Giattino, Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell
We update this page each week with the latest available data on excess mortality. Last updated: 29 March 2022
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
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Lab viral origins report
Sep 15, 2022 Dr. John Campbell
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic, 14th September 2022 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la... https://covid19commission.org Viral origins The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains unknown. There are two leading hypotheses: that the virus emerged as a zoonotic spillover from wildlife or a farm animal, possibly through a wet market, in a location that is still undetermined; or that the virus emerged from a research-related incident, during the field collection of viruses, or through a laboratory-associated escape. No independent, transparent, and science-based investigation has been carried out regarding the bioengineering of SARS-like viruses that was underway before the outbreak of COVID-19. The laboratory notebooks, databases, email records, and samples of institutions involved in such research have not been made available to independent researchers. Independent researchers have not yet investigated the US laboratories engaged in the laboratory manipulation of SARS-CoV-like viruses, nor have they investigated the details of the laboratory research that had been underway in Wuhan. US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has resisted disclosing details of the research on SARS-CoV-related viruses that it had been supporting, providing extensively redacted information only as required by Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. In brief, there are many potential proximal origins of SARS-CoV-2, but there is still a shortfall of independent, scientific, and collaborative work on the issue. The search for the origins of the virus requires unbiased, independent, transparent, and rigorous work by international teams in the fields of virology, epidemiology, bioinformatics, and other related fields, and supported by all governments. In the absence of an unbiased, independent, and rigorous search for a natural origin by a multidisciplinary team of experts alongside an unbiased, independent, and rigorous investigation of the research-related hypotheses, the public's trust in science will be imperilled, with potentially grave long-term repercussions. It is therefore crucial to investigate all hypotheses fully, not only to ascertain the source of the pandemic and to protect against future emerging infectious diseases, but also to ensure the integrity of science itself. The perceived lack of transparency to date by leading scientific agencies and laboratories is troubling and needs to be addressed. Strategies to prevent research-related releases should include stronger international and national oversight of biosafety, biosecurity, and biorisk management, including the strict regulation of gain of function research of concern. When investigating the origins of any novel pathogen, potential hypotheses should not be prematurely rejected to ensure that time-sensitive data— such as early case information and laboratory records—are collected.
The Lancet Opens Pandora's Box, Suggests COVID Could Have Originated In US Labs
BY TYLER DURDENTHURSDAY, SEP 15, 2022 - 02:40 PM
After providing a platform for a massive 'Natural Origins' Covid-19 disinformation campaign by EcoHealth Alliance head Peter Daszak, The Lancet appears to have done a 180 - suggesting Covid-19 may have originated "in US laboratories engaged in the laboratory manipulation of SARS-CoV-like viruses," among other possibilities.
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
Read our final report here: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/covid19
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission is an interdisciplinary initiative encompassing the health sciences, business, finance, and public policy.
The work of the Commission has four main themes:
- Recommendations on how to best suppress the epidemic.
- Addressing the humanitarian crises arising from the pandemic.
- Addressing the financial and economic crises resulting from the pandemic.
- Rebuilding an inclusive, fair, and sustainable world.
The work of the Commission will be supported by twelve Task Forces, in areas ranging from vaccine development, to humanitarian relief strategies, to safe workplaces, to global economic recovery.
https://covid19commission.org/
https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/covid19
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prof Jeffrey D Sachs, PhD
- Prof Salim S Abdool Karim, MBChB PhD
- Prof Lara Aknin, PhD
- Joseph Allen, DSc
- Kirsten Brosbøl, MA
- Francesca Colombo, MSc
- et al.
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Published:September 14, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01585-9
Executive summary
As of May 31, 2022, there were 6·9 million reported deaths and 17·2 million estimated deaths from COVID-19, as reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME; throughout the report, we rely on IHME estimates of infections and deaths; note that the IHME gives an estimated range, and we refer to the mean estimate). This staggering death toll is both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels. Too many governments have failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency, too many people—often influenced by misinformation—have disrespected and protested against basic public health precautions, and the world's major powers have failed to collaborate to control the pandemic.The multiple failures of international cooperation include (1) the lack of timely notification of the initial outbreak of COVID-19; (2) costly delays in acknowledging the crucial airborne exposure pathway of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and in implementing appropriate measures at national and global levels to slow the spread of the virus; (3) the lack of coordination among countries regarding suppression strategies; (4) the failure of governments to examine evidence and adopt best practices for controlling the pandemic and managing economic and social spillovers from other countries; (5) the shortfall of global funding for low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), as classified by the World Bank; (6) the failure to ensure adequate global supplies and equitable distribution of key commodities—including protective gear, diagnostics, medicines, medical devices, and vaccines—especially for LMICs; (7) the lack of timely, accurate, and systematic data on infections, deaths, viral variants, health system responses, and indirect health consequences; (8) the poor enforcement of appropriate levels of biosafety regulations in the lead-up to the pandemic, raising the possibility of a laboratory-related outbreak; (9) the failure to combat systematic disinformation; and (10) the lack of global and national safety nets to protect populations experiencing vulnerability.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01585-9/fulltext
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What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
Western experts are blinded by vested interests
BY MATT RIDLEY AND ALINA CHAN
June 23, 2022
https://unherd.com/2022/06/what-happened-to-the-lab-leak-hypothesis/
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DIA: Intel suggests COVID virus was lab-engineered
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, revealed in prepared Senate testimony this week that some U.S. intelligence agencies — not identified by name — believe the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic may have been genetically modified in a laboratory and not transmitted naturally from an animal host in China, where it was first identified.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/11/dia-intel-suggests-covid-virus-was-lab-engineered/
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BREAKING NEWS: LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS U.S. AND CHINESE SCIENTISTS PLANNED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEER A SARS-LIKE VIRUS BY INSERTING A SEGMENT KNOWN TO MAKE IT MORE INFECTIOUS TO HUMANS
There never was such a headline in mainstream media, but the news was real. Contrast with widespread coverage of studies concluding Covid-19 started at the seafood market in Wuhan.
Alina Chan@Ayjchan
Dec 2019 to mid-Jan 2020: Chinese CDC, Hubei CDC, Wuhan CDC specifically looked for potential Covid-19 cases with links to Huanan Market or living in the vicinity of the market. Feb 2022: Western scientists say, "Wow so many of the early cases were centered around the market!"
2:09 PM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1499461957849694212
https://zenodo.org/record/6299116#.YiEV5y-B2qD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8393104/
Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells
- Sarah Temmam, Khamsing Vongphayloth, … Marc Eloit Show authors
Nature (2022)Cite this article Metrics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4
Abstract
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats1–4, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG135,6 and in pangolins7–9. SARS-CoV-2 presents a mosaic genome, to which different progenitors contribute. The spike sequence determines the binding affinity and accessibility of its receptor-binding domain (RBD) to the cellular angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor and is responsible for host range10–12. SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2 and able to enter human cells through a human ACE2 pathway have not yet been identified, though they would be key in understanding the origin of the epidemics. Here we show that such viruses indeed circulate in cave bats living in the limestone karstic terrain in North Laos, within the Indochinese peninsula. We found that the RBDs of these viruses differ from that of SARS-CoV-2 by only one or two residues at the interface with ACE2, bind more efficiently to the hACE2 protein than the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain isolated in early human cases, and mediate hACE2-dependent entry and replication in human cells, which is inhibited by antibodies neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike. Our findings therefore indicate that bat-borne SARS-CoV-2-like viruses potentially infectious for humans circulate in Rhinolophus spp. in the Indochinese peninsula.
bioRxiv . 2020 Aug 26;2020.08.26.268854. doi: 10.1101/2020.08.26.268854. Preprint
Furin Cleavage Site Is Key to SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenesis
Bryan A Johnson, Xuping Xie, Birte Kalveram, Kumari G Lokugamage, Antonio Muruato, Jing Zou, Xianwen Zhang, Terry Juelich, Jennifer K Smith, Lihong Zhang, Nathen Bopp, Craig Schindewolf, Michelle Vu, Abigail Vanderheiden, Daniele Swetnam, Jessica A Plante, Patricia Aguilar, Kenneth S Plante, Benhur Lee, Scott C Weaver, Mehul S Suthar, Andrew L Routh, Ping Ren, Zhiqiang Ku, Zhiqiang An, Kari Debbink, Pei Yong Shi, Alexander N Freiberg, Vineet D Menachery
- PMID: 32869021
- PMCID: PMC7457603
- DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.26.268854
Free PMC article
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a global pandemic and shutdown economies around the world. Sequence analysis indicates that the novel coronavirus (CoV) has an insertion of a furin cleavage site (PRRAR) in its spike protein. Absent in other group 2B CoVs, the insertion may be a key factor in the replication and virulence of SARS-CoV-2. To explore this question, we generated a SARS-CoV-2 mutant lacking the furin cleavage site (ΔPRRA) in the spike protein. This mutant virus replicated with faster kinetics and improved fitness in Vero E6 cells. The mutant virus also had reduced spike protein processing as compared to wild-type SARS-CoV-2. In contrast, the ΔPRRA had reduced replication in Calu3 cells, a human respiratory cell line, and had attenuated disease in a hamster pathogenesis model. Despite the reduced disease, the ΔPRRA mutant offered robust protection from SARS-CoV-2 rechallenge. Importantly, plaque reduction neutralization tests (PRNT 50 ) with COVID-19 patient sera and monoclonal antibodies against the receptor-binding domain found a shift, with the mutant virus resulting in consistently reduced PRNT 50 titers. Together, these results demonstrate a critical role for the furin cleavage site insertion in SARS-CoV-2 replication and pathogenesis. In addition, these findings illustrate the importance of this insertion in evaluating neutralization and other downstream SARS-CoV-2 assays.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32869021/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Lab Leak Theory Given HUGE Boost With NEW Documents & Interviews: Ryan Grim
Apr 4, 2022 The Hill
Ryan Grim breaks down new reporting from Vanity Fair about the NIH's possible funding of gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.
INVESTIGATION
“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
BY KATHERINE EBAN MARCH 31, 2022
BREAKING NEWS: LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS U.S. AND CHINESE SCIENTISTS PLANNED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEER A SARS-LIKE VIRUS BY INSERTING A SEGMENT KNOWN TO MAKE IT MORE INFECTIOUS TO HUMANS
There never was such a headline in mainstream media, but the news was real. Contrast with widespread coverage of studies concluding Covid-19 started at the seafood market in Wuhan.
Alina Chan@Ayjchan
Dec 2019 to mid-Jan 2020: Chinese CDC, Hubei CDC, Wuhan CDC specifically looked for potential Covid-19 cases with links to Huanan Market or living in the vicinity of the market. Feb 2022: Western scientists say, "Wow so many of the early cases were centered around the market!"
2:09 PM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1499461957849694212
https://zenodo.org/record/6299116#.YiEV5y-B2qD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8393104/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Gravitas: US officials knew about China's Wuhan cover-up?
Mar 10, 2022 WION
Newly published documents from the US embassy in China reveal that US officials were aware of China's cover-up in Wuhan. They flagged China's incomplete health bulletins in January 2020. Did Fauci and US officials hide the reality in Wuhan? Palki Sharma tells you.
BREAKING NEWS: LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS U.S. AND CHINESE SCIENTISTS PLANNED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEER A SARS-LIKE VIRUS BY INSERTING A SEGMENT KNOWN TO MAKE IT MORE INFECTIOUS TO HUMANS
There never was such a headline in mainstream media, but the news was real. Contrast with widespread coverage of studies concluding Covid-19 started at the seafood market in Wuhan.
Alina Chan@Ayjchan
Dec 2019 to mid-Jan 2020: Chinese CDC, Hubei CDC, Wuhan CDC specifically looked for potential Covid-19 cases with links to Huanan Market or living in the vicinity of the market. Feb 2022: Western scientists say, "Wow so many of the early cases were centered around the market!"
2:09 PM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1499461957849694212
https://zenodo.org/record/6299116#.YiEV5y-B2qD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8393104/
Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells
- Sarah Temmam, Khamsing Vongphayloth, … Marc Eloit Show authors
Nature (2022)Cite this article Metrics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4
Abstract
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats1–4, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG135,6 and in pangolins7–9. SARS-CoV-2 presents a mosaic genome, to which different progenitors contribute. The spike sequence determines the binding affinity and accessibility of its receptor-binding domain (RBD) to the cellular angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor and is responsible for host range10–12. SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2 and able to enter human cells through a human ACE2 pathway have not yet been identified, though they would be key in understanding the origin of the epidemics. Here we show that such viruses indeed circulate in cave bats living in the limestone karstic terrain in North Laos, within the Indochinese peninsula. We found that the RBDs of these viruses differ from that of SARS-CoV-2 by only one or two residues at the interface with ACE2, bind more efficiently to the hACE2 protein than the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain isolated in early human cases, and mediate hACE2-dependent entry and replication in human cells, which is inhibited by antibodies neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike. Our findings therefore indicate that bat-borne SARS-CoV-2-like viruses potentially infectious for humans circulate in Rhinolophus spp. in the Indochinese peninsula.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Early 2018: Wuhan & US scientists propose inserting novel cleavage sites into novel SARS-like viruses in the lab.
Late 2019: Novel SARS-like virus with novel cleavage site is detected in Wuhan.
Early 2020: WIV manuscripts fail to take note of the virus' novel cleavage site.
10:04 PM · Apr 4, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1511162716366389252
The best-laid scams of vice & spin: an origin Tweetorial[1] The global scientists who suppressed awareness of the Furincleavage site [FCS] exacerbated the mistakes triggered by China's cover-up of the outbreak in Jan. '20. Any chance to stop the pandemic died on 2/1.
https://twitter.com/CharlesRixey/status/1519748598740750337
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
INVESTIGATION
“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
MARCH 31, 2022
Early 2018: Wuhan & US scientists propose inserting novel cleavage sites into novel SARS-like viruses in the lab.
Late 2019: Novel SARS-like virus with novel cleavage site is detected in Wuhan.
Early 2020: WIV manuscripts fail to take note of the virus' novel cleavage site.
10:04 PM · Apr 4, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1511162716366389252
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2
Yujia Alina Chan, Shing Hei Zhan Author Notes Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2022, msab327, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab327Published: 12 November 2022
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/1/msab327/6426085?login=false
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES - ARTICLE
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1370392/v1
NIH DOCUMENTS PROVIDE NEW EVIDENCE U.S. FUNDED GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH IN WUHAN
U.S.-funded experiment in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say
Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl, Maia Hibbett
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
PETER DASZAK ANSWERS CRITICS AND DEFENDS CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH
“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance president on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl
March 11 2022, 9:50 a.m.
SINCE THE EARLY days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Peter Daszak has been at the center of a heated, and at times vicious, debate over the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The parasitologist helms the New York-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, a wildlife conservation organization that aims to understand and prevent infectious diseases; the organization has received more than $118 million in grants and contracts from U.S. agencies, much of which Daszak distributes to labs around the world. Starting in 2005, he worked closely with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who was a key partner on a 2014 National Institutes of Health grant to research bat coronaviruses in China. The Intercept has published over 2,500 pages of documents and communications from the grant following a Freedom of Information lawsuit — information that has transformed public understanding of the research conducted under the grant.
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/11/covid-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-interview/
Rossana Segreto@Rossana38510044
"And by the way, that database is somewhere on the USAID government system." https://theintercept.com/2022/03/11/covid-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-interview/… Care to share it @USAID?
Rossana Segreto@Rossana38510044·20m"
"For the furin cleavage site, you should really ask Ralph Baric. He wrote that section of the DARPA grant."
Care to tell us more about the furin cleavage site @Baric_Lab?
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EMAILS POINT TO OVERSIGHT PROBLEMS WITH NIH BAT CORONAVIRUS GRANT
In an interview, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak addressed gaps and missing information in documents released to The Intercept. Mara HvistendahlMara Hvistendahl March 3 2022, 9:30 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/03/wuhan-coronavirus-research-nih-ecohealth/
I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
It’s still an open question
The media’s lab leak fiasco is the most-read Slow Boring post of all time.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/im-not-convinced-by-the-new-lab-leak?s=w
The October Surprise in Wuhan October 2021
DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.30910.00328 Projects: Pandemics DRASTIC
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355373689_The_October_Surprise_in_Wuhan
Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells
Show authors Nature (2022)Cite this article
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4
Abstract
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats1–4, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG135,6 and in pangolins7–9. SARS-CoV-2 presents a mosaic genome, to which different progenitors contribute. The spike sequence determines the binding affinity and accessibility of its receptor-binding domain (RBD) to the cellular angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor and is responsible for host range10–12. SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2 and able to enter human cells through a human ACE2 pathway have not yet been identified, though they would be key in understanding the origin of the epidemics. Here we show that such viruses indeed circulate in cave bats living in the limestone karstic terrain in North Laos, within the Indochinese peninsula. We found that the RBDs of these viruses differ from that of SARS-CoV-2 by only one or two residues at the interface with ACE2, bind more efficiently to the hACE2 protein than the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain isolated in early human cases, and mediate hACE2-dependent entry and replication in human cells, which is inhibited by antibodies neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike. Our findings therefore indicate that bat-borne SARS-CoV-2-like viruses potentially infectious for humans circulate in Rhinolophus spp. in the Indochinese peninsula.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
NIH orders sweeping review of potentially risky experiments on viruses and other pathogens
The National Institutes of Health hopes to have recommendations by the end of the year.
By Joel Achenbach washingtonpost.com
National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) February 2022
https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44823
Air date:Monday, February 28, 2022, 12:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local 41 On-demand)
Category:National Science Advisory Board for BiosecurityRuntime:01:06:39
Description:The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) is scheduled to virtually convene on February 28, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET. The meeting will include a review of the charge to the committee and discussion of next steps for the committee.
For more information go to https://osp.od.nih.gov/biotechnology/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb/
Video is up for a recent (Feb 28, 2022) National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) public review of US government policies on dual use research of concern (DURC) and research with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP/P3CO).
https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44823
9:55 AM · Mar 2, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1499035660627419139
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells
Nature (2022)Cite this article 620 Altmetric Metrics
Abstract
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats1–4, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG135,6 and in pangolins7–9. SARS-CoV-2 presents a mosaic genome, to which different progenitors contribute. The spike sequence determines the binding affinity and accessibility of its receptor-binding domain (RBD) to the cellular angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor and is responsible for host range10–12. SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2 and able to enter human cells through a human ACE2 pathway have not yet been identified, though they would be key in understanding the origin of the epidemics. Here we show that such viruses indeed circulate in cave bats living in the limestone karstic terrain in North Laos, within the Indochinese peninsula. We found that the RBDs of these viruses differ from that of SARS-CoV-2 by only one or two residues at the interface with ACE2, bind more efficiently to the hACE2 protein than the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain isolated in early human cases, and mediate hACE2-dependent entry and replication in human cells, which is inhibited by antibodies neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike. Our findings therefore indicate that bat-borne SARS-CoV-2-like viruses potentially infectious for humans circulate in Rhinolophus spp. in the Indochinese peninsula.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4
Two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, where is the investigation into the origins of Sars-CoV-2?
Article written by Louis San France Televisions Posted on 01/25/2022 06:59Updateon 01/25/2022 12:37
Finally, the viruses discovered by Marc Eloit and his team nevertheless present an "important difference" with Sars-Cov-2: their genome lacks an element called "furin cleavage site", which makes it possible to increase the entry efficiency of Sars-CoV-2 into human lung cells and its pathogenicity. This "site" is fundamental since it makes the virus dangerous for humans. “It could have been acquired by Sars-CoV-2 during multiple passages in human cells” , remarks Marc Eloit. But that means "either successive passages without symptoms in humans, until this furin site is acquired, or passages in cell cultures in the laboratory", he says. The initially silent circulation of the virus in humans, because initially without or with few symptoms, is "theoretically possible" , explains the virologist. Not to mention that the caves in which bats live are frequented by humans: inhabitants of these regions go there to collect guano or sometimes consume these animals, and tourists visit these sites.
A laboratory accident not excluded
Alina Chan@Ayjchan
The Temmam et al. Laos bat virus paper is now past peer review㊗️ https://nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4…
In a recent interview, the senior author said that the furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2, not present in the Laos bat viruses, may have arisen naturally or in a lab.
https://francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/deux-ans-apres-le-debut-de-la-pandemie-de-covid-19-ou-en-est-l-enquete-sur-les-origines-du-sars-cov-2_4911225.html…3:13 PM · Feb 16, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1494042359830568964
Another Potential Covid-19 Lab Leak Clue
Investigating the pandemic’s origin is still worth the effort.
By The Editorial Board Feb. 17, 2022 6:43 pm ET
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
NIH SENT THE INTERCEPT 292 FULLY REDACTED PAGES RELATED TO VIRUS RESEARCH IN WUHAN
The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sharon Lerner February 20 2022, 7:00 a.m.
WITH THE GLOBAL death toll from Covid-19 approaching 6 million, the need to understand the origins of the pandemic is both pressing and grave. But the National Institutes of Health continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on this question. This week, in response to ongoing litigation over public records related to coronavirus research funded by the federal agency, the NIH sent The Intercept 292 fully redacted pages rather than substantive material that could help us understand how the virus first came to infect humans.
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/20/nih-coronavirus-research-wuhan-redacted/
Despite bipartisan+scientific pressure to release info relevant to #OriginOfCovid, @NIH refuses to be transparent. In a rare non-redacted email from 2020, we see confirmation that pre-pandemic funding had involved samples from SE Asia sent to Wuhan.
theintercept.comNIH Sent The Intercept 292 Fully Redacted Pages Related to Virus Research in WuhanThe NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.11:52 AM · Feb 20, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1495441207442513922
Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10’
Biosecurity expert helping Government to prevent future pandemics claims ministers consider leak as most likely origin of Covid pandemic
The Prime Minister said that the UK biosecurity strategy would be refreshed to protect against 'natural zoonosis and laboratory leaks'
By Sarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR 22 February 2022 • 7:00pm
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth
Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories. COVID disinformation has threatened research—and lives
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2
Yujia Alina Chan, Shing Hei Zhan Author NotesMolecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2022, msab327, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab327 Published: 12 November 2021 PDF Cite Permissions Icon Permissions
Abstract
Compared with other SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs), SARS-CoV-2 possesses a unique furin cleavage site (FCS) in its spike. This has stimulated discussion pertaining to the origin of SARS-CoV-2 because the FCS has been observed to be under strong selective pressure in humans and confers the enhanced ability to infect some cell types and induce cell–cell fusion. Furthermore, scientists have demonstrated interest in studying novel cleavage sites by introducing them into SARSr-CoVs. We review what is known about the SARS-CoV-2 FCS in the context of its pathogenesis, origin, and how future wildlife coronavirus sampling may alter the interpretation of existing data.
COVID-19, furin cleavage site, virology, coronavirusIssue Section: Perspective Associate Editor: Sudhir Kumar
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/1/msab327/6426085?login=false
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
#WuhanVirus #BorisJohnson #Gravitas
Gravitas: Lab leak theory: UK considers it 'behind closed doors'
Feb 23, 2022 WION
It's been 2 years since the Wuhan Virus pandemic struck. We still do not know how the virus from China originated. Was it leak from the Wuhan lab? Boris Johnson's government reportedly believes so. Listen in to Palki Sharma. #WuhanVirus #BorisJohnson #Gravitas
Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10’
Biosecurity expert helping Government to prevent future pandemics claims ministers consider leak as most likely origin of Covid pandemic
The Prime Minister said that the UK biosecurity strategy would be refreshed to protect against 'natural zoonosis and laboratory leaks'
By Sarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR 22 February 2022 • 7:00pm
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
NIH Cover-up. It Didn't Have To Be This Way.
Premiered Feb 23, 2022 Peak Prosperity
The Intercept news organization has been trying to gain some insight into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. They have had top submit FOIA requests to a very reluctant NIH that seems quite uninterested in sharing anything about their role in funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The recent FOIA release is a case-study in guilty agency behavior. Out of 312 pages released, a full 297 of them were 100% redacted. Nada. Nothing. Well, when I won’t show you something, that means I am hiding something. I am 100% sure the NIH is hiding something here. Probably just a bad case of institutional embarrassment, but still, a hide. The NIH clearly funded activities related to Gain of Function at Chinese facilities, including the WIV. This we already know from prior releases. What are they hiding now that’s worse than that? Well, we can only guess. But now there’s also been great detective work to uncover how exactly the “furin cleavage site” (PRRA, baby!) got into SAR2. The precise genetic sequence is quite odd as it doesn’t appear anywhere else in the entire world of viruses or higher animals. But it does appear in several Moderna patents. We deserve answers as to how that might have come to be. After all, the entire world lost two years of proper living, and a bunch of draconian governmental programs were implemented. People lost livelihoods, children lost childhoods, and people lost lives. How are we *not* deserving or proper answers and, where appropriate, full accountability for anyone found to be responsible? Add it all up, and it's time for you to become more resilient. Join our tribe here and enter the best conversations about this subject on the internet: https://www.peakprosperity.com/its-ti... Links: https://theintercept.com/2022/02/20/n... https://www.muckrock.com/news/archive... https://www.muckrock.com/news/archive... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
The 'early Covid mutations' from a Chinese lab that are fuelling leak theory: How a 'barcode error' at Shanghai lab during tests on Antarctica soil accidentally exposed variant in monkey DNA from start of pandemic
- Hungarian researchers found contaminated soil samples that had unusual coronavirus mutations by accident
- Scientists believe they may bridge the gap between original bat coronavirus and one that jumped to humans
- Error thought to have occurred at research site in Shanghai and may give clues about origins of the pandemic
By CONNOR BOYD DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE and LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:17 EST, 10 February 2022 | UPDATED: 12:49 EST, 10 February 2022
How study of Antarctic soil samples unearthed Covid lab leak clue
Jan 2019: Scientists from the University of Science Technology of China collect 12 soil samples on King George Island, Antarctica, during study of penguin bacteria.
November 2019: Three workers at the Wuhan Insititue of virology fall sick with Covid-like symptoms, according to US intelligence
Dec 2019: The Arctic soil samples are sent to the Sangon Biotech laboratory in Shanghai, China, to be sequenced.
The Sangon Biotech laboratory also sequences samples from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Dec 2019/early 2020: The samples are analysed and during the sequencing contaminated by a different sample from another project, likely through a barcode error at the lab.
The other sample contains a mutated version of Covid-19 and genetic material from monkeys and hamsters suggesting it is from lab testing.
Virologists say the variant is a descendant of the original Wuhan strain of Covid-19. Some experts believe it is an ancestor virus that is the bridge between bat coronavirus and Covid-19.
Dec 31 2019: China confirms its first cases of Covid after reports of mystery illness spreading since November 2019.
Early 2020: The Covid sequences are uploaded to an international database with in the dataset from the Antarctic soil sample , but not exactly clear when. They go unnoticed for over a year.
Jan 2021: Researchers at Lorand University and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hungary discover three of the Antarctic soil samples contain traces of what may be an ancestral version of Covid, along with monkey and hamster DNA.
Dec 23, 2021: The scientists publish a pre-print paper online, warning the contaminated samples could indicate the possible origin of Covid.
Jan 2022: Public access to the data is revoked after the pre-print is released and then restored a month later.
Chinese researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China, near Shanghai, said they did not ask to have the data deleted or restored.
Feb 2022: Hungarian scientists publish a second pre-print suggesting the samples may be contaminated with an early version of Covid.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
#AnthonyFauci #JohnBerman #NewDay
CNN's Berman reads Fauci's emails. Watch his response
Jun 3, 2021 CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci called criticism of his emails, which were revealed via a Freedom of Information Act request, where he was being thanked by the head of a medical company that is funding research at the Wuhan, China, virology lab for saying the Covid-19 origin was started by natural causes. #AnthonyFauci #JohnBerman #NewDay
Paul promises investigation of Fauci if Republicans take Senate
BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL - 02/04/22 12:05 AM EST
Health expert says other COVID-19 variants 'pale in comparison' to delta
VOL. 6, NO. 4 / FEBRUARY 2022
Thunder Out of China
Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are of more than academic interest.
https://inference-review.com/article/thunder-out-of-china
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
What We Know about the Coronavirus
Feb 28, 2020 Coalition for the Life Sciences
What We Know about the Coronavirus Featuring Ralph Baric, PhD The University of North Carolina Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Cannon House Office Building Every day we hear a new report on the coronavirus. The reports range from the spread of the virus to the current mortality rates of victims of the virus. But what does science know about this virus? And is there hope for a treatment before the virus becomes even more deadly? Here is Dr. Ralph Baric, a leading epidemiologist, who has been working on finding a treatment for this virus. He discusses what we know and what we still don’t know about the coronavirus.
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🧵UNC's Ralph Baric briefed Capitol Hill staff back on Feb. 28, 2020, & in one hour:
NEVER mentioned he worked w/ Wuhan bio lab.
NEVER mentioned his chimeric novel bat virus work.
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What We Know about the Coronavirus
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy
Shi Zhengli has spent years at the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching coronaviruses that live in bats. Her work has come under fire as the world tries to understand where covid-19 came from.
by Jane Qiu February 9, 2022
On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Some walked around to find the best camera position; others climbed a ladder to peer into the fenced-off compound, its tall red-brick buildings hidden behind a thick mist. Security guards in blue uniforms lined the winding driveway leading to the entrance.
The crowd was gathered because a team of international disease detectives selected by the World Health Organization (WHO) to hunt for the origins of covid-19 was on its way to visit.
“They will be here in a minute,” a journalist working for Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television said after checking her phone. Her voice was brisk and slightly shaken; her eyes sparkled with nervous excitement. “My colleagues just told me. They’re chasing the WHO cars.”
Soon enough, the motorcade burst through the fog. As it approached the institute’s main gate, a journalist in a blue down jacket and white face mask sprinted alongside as if he were running for his life, pointing a video camera toward the cars, his rucksack bouncing up and down on his back. A dozen photographers flocked to the lead car, pushing against one another and forcing the convoy to a stop. The guards tried herding them away to get the cars moving again. “Comments, please!” several journalists shouted.
Inside the car, Peter Daszak—a disease ecologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit that works with scientists around the world to study viruses in wildlife—was filming the scene on his cell phone.
He was a member of the WHO team, and when we’d spoken the week before, he'd cautioned that the Wuhan trip was just a first step in trying to figure out where covid-19 came from. “It can take years or even decades to find the cause of a new infectious disease,” said Daszak, who has collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology for more than 15 years and is now himself caught up in the debate over the disease’s origins. “Sometimes we just never know.”
But the world wanted quick answers.
The institute holds a critical place in the story of the covid-19 pandemic. A leading center for coronavirus research, it was the first facility to isolate the new virus, and the first to sequence its genome. One of its labs, led by virologist Shi Zhengli, focuses on coronaviruses that live in bats, and has spent years sequencing viral genomes, isolating live viruses, and—through genetic mixing and matching—trying to understand how they may evolve to gain the ability to infect humans. Over the past 18 years, her team has collected more than 20,000 samples from bat colonies across China.
Shi’s work, which has earned her the nickname China’s bat woman, has been at the center of controversy. Some have suggested that her bat samples could be the source of the covid-19 virus, which scientists call SARS-CoV-2. They have claimed that the virus could have hitched a ride to Wuhan by infecting one of her team members in their fieldwork collecting samples from bats. Or, some speculate, the live viruses her team cultured in the lab, including—more worryingly—the ones they created by genetic tinkering, could be the source of the pandemic.
All eyes were on the WHO, the leading international public health agency, to probe covid-19’s origins. The team’s mission was to examine when and where the outbreak had started and how the new virus crossed over to humans. The report, which was released last March, concluded it was “extremely unlikely” that covid-19 could have been caused by a lab accident. The situation the team ranked most likely was that it had jumped from bats to humans via some intermediary animal. Their results, supported by research published in peer-reviewed journals and by ongoing studies, suggest that the pandemic probably started at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in central Wuhan, where live mammals were sold and where most of the early covid-19 cases emerged.
Not everybody agrees, but the majority of virologists and infectious-disease experts, especially those working directly on the origins question, lean toward that theory, barring the emergence of new evidence that persuades them otherwise.
Spillover from animals to humans “was how almost every major epidemic got started in the past decades,” says Shi’s longtime collaborator Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Duke–National University of Singapore Medical School and a member of the WHO team that in 2003 investigated the origins of SARS, a deadly infectious disease caused by a coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-1. That illness sickened 8,000 people worldwide and killed nearly 800 between 2002 and 2004. “It’s a common and well-documented pathway,” he says.
But one year after the WHO’s visit to Wuhan, the disease detectives have yet to find the guilty animal or other indisputable evidence of natural origins. Critics also question the conclusion of the agency’s mission team partly because one of its members, Daszak, who is a prominent advocate of the natural origins theory, has potential conflicts of interest. Speculation over the possibility of a lab accident has surged. Inflaming the suspicions are concerns over biosafety procedures at the Wuhan lab, political tensions between China and the US, and a general sense that the Chinese government is not to be trusted.
By trying to understand the process and context of Shi’s work—and to find out who she was—I wanted to learn what role, if any, China’s bat woman had in the origins of covid-19.
Scientists like David Relman, an expert on microbiology and biosecurity at Stanford University, are dismayed at the way the lab leak theory has been dismissed. He helped organize a group of 18 scientists to sign a letter published in Science last May calling for further investigation of a possible accident. (At least two of those involved later sought to distance themselves from the letter after seeing how it had been used to promote the lab leak theory.) Soon afterwards, President Joe Biden directed the US intelligence community to intensify its probe into the pandemic’s origins. The declassified report released in October shows that it reached no firm conclusion.
In December 2020, a month before the WHO visit, I too embarked on a search for answers. I talked to dozens of top scientists and biosafety experts worldwide. I spent six weeks in Wuhan, where I interviewed Shi and her team for a total of more than 40 hours. I had a private meeting with three members of the WHO mission. I visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology half a dozen times, often on the spur of the moment, and went with the scientists on a virus-sampling trip to a bat cave. By trying to understand the process and context of Shi’s work—and to find out who she was—I wanted to learn what role, if any, China’s bat woman had in the origins of covid-19.
Probing covid-19’s origins will not only help us understand how coronaviruses work but shine a bright light on the human behaviors—including the types of scientific research—that risk causing a pandemic in the future.
Like the WHO team, I have not gone through Shi’s freezers or lab books, and therefore I cannot prove or disprove whether activities associated with her research caused the pandemic. It’s more about providing additional perspectives—having Shi and her team tell their side of the story on the record, and in the most detail to date, so that the world can better understand how this deeply entrenched controversy has come about and how we can move forward.
Meeting China’s bat woman
.The findings, say virologists such as Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney, have provided valuable insight into the evolutionary history of coronaviruses and the way they generate genetic variants.
Whenever the team found a bat relative of SARS-CoV-1, Shi says, she asked the same questions: How threatening is it to other animal species, including humans? What would it take for the virus to become one that, like SARS-CoV-1, can cause major epidemics?
It was here, on January 5, 2020, that Yang first successfully isolated SARS-CoV-2 from a patient sample—the first isolate of the new coronavirus.
.The virus was 95% identical to SARS-CoV-1. The team named it WIV1 to indicate that it was isolated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Their study, published in Nature in 2013, provided strong evidence that SARS-CoV-1 originated in bats.
In all his years of work, Yang has managed to isolate only three bat coronaviruses—all of them close relatives of SARS-CoV-1. More recently, the team managed to synthesize three bat coronaviruses from their genomic sequences. All six are close relatives of SARS-CoV-1. None of them, said virologists MIT Technology Review spoke to, could have been the source of SARS-CoV-2: they’re just too different.
There was, however, one other virus in a bat sample that is a lot closer to SARS-CoV-2—96% identical. It has its own curious origin story, and in some parts of the scientific community and beyond, it’s become a prime suspect in the hunt for the pandemic’s origins. It’s called RaTG13.
Mine mystery
In late April 2012, a strange disease emerged from an abandoned copper mine near the town of Tongguan in Mojiang county, a region in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan. Six workers who had been cleaning up bat guano in the mine fell ill with pneumonia-like symptoms—coughs, headaches, fevers, and aching limbs—and were admitted to a hospital in Kunming, the provincial capital. One died in 12 days, and two recovered in a month, followed by another death on June 12.
A week later, the country’s leading respiratory clinician, Zhong Nanshan, joined a clinical consultation remotely with colleagues at the Kunming hospital to determine how to treat the remaining two Mojiang patients. Zhong, the former director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, had played an instrumental role in the fight against SARS. He noted that the miners’ lab tests and CT scans were uncannily similar to those of patients with SARS, which hadn’t been seen since 2004. The clinicians in Kunming, he told me, suspected that a fungus had caused their illness—because cave-associated fungal infections happen in Yunnan every now and then—but Zhong thought a virus might be involved. He asked Shi’s team to test the patient samples for viral infections, but they couldn’t find any evidence of infection by coronaviruses or other known viruses.
In 2020, with the pandemic raging, some scientists—including Stanford’s Relman—wondered if Shi had been wrong. Perhaps, they say, a SARS-like coronavirus was to blame. Perhaps there was even a link between the disease that affected the Mojiang miners and covid-19.
That suspicion was bolstered in May 2020, when the anonymous owner of the Twitter handle @TheSeeker268—who claimed to me in Twitter texts that he is a 30-year-old man trained in architecture and filmmaking and lives in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar—dug up a 2016 PhD thesis by Huang Canping from the Chinese internet. Huang was a student of George Gao, director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, and his thesis cited the Wuhan Institute of Virology as claiming that four of the Mojiang miners had antibodies against SARS-CoV-1. Scientists like Monali Rahalkar, a microbial ecologist at the MACS Agharkar Research Institute in Pune, India, and a strong proponent of the lab leak theory, said that this suggests the miners were infected by a SARS-like coronavirus. Social media and the press teemed with suspicion that Shi tried to hide the fact.
The scientists directly involved in the work deny that speculation. Shi said her team did not find such antibodies, although she said some early tests did produce false positives that were corrected when the assays were fully validated. MIT Technology Review has been unable to locate Huang, but Gao said his lab never analyzed the miners’ antibody status, and that Huang’s statement—possibly based on the false-positive results, which Shi discussed at an internal meeting in 2012—was erroneous. After covid-19 struck, Shi’s team went back to the Mojiang samples to look for traces of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and found none.
“Many pathogens can cause pneumonia-like symptoms similar to SARS and covid-19," Zhong told me. Some local clinicians, he adds, still suspect it was a fungus that had sickened the miners. “It remains a mystery to this day.”
It’s not unusual for respiratory illnesses to have an unknown cause, but even though Shi couldn’t figure out what had sickened the Mojiang miners, her instinct told her that something interesting might be going on. “What viruses were lurking in the cave?” she remembers wondering. Between 2012 and 2015, her team undertook more than half a dozen trips to the mine shaft, about 1,100 miles from Wuhan, and collected 1,322 bat samples.
They looked for the coronavirus-specific RdRp gene, and when they found it, they investigated further. In the end, the bat samples turned out to contain nearly 300 coronaviruses. Nine belonged to the same group of viruses as SARS-CoV-1—known as beta-coronaviruses—even though their RdRp genes were quite different: they were “distant cousins,” Shi told me.
“Why are you so different?” Shi wondered, but eventually she put the sample back in the freezer.
Eight of the nine were closely related to each other, but one—from a single fecal sample labeled “4991”—had a very distinct genomic signature. “Why are you so different?” Shi wondered, but eventually she put the sample back in the freezer. Her work was to look for bat viruses that could potentially cause SARS-like epidemics, and none of the Mojiang sequences appeared to be “directly relevant to our inquiry,” she told me. “So they were not the focus of our research.”
In 2018, though, 4991 was brought back out again. The Wuhan Institute of Virology had bought a new desktop sequencing machine, which made it much faster and cheaper to get a complete view of a virus’s genomic secrets, and 4991 was among the first batch of samples to be sequenced with the new device. The analysis confirmed that the virus residing in the sample was very different from SARS-CoV-1; they are 80% identical to each other across the genome. (The genomes of the other eight Mojiang viruses, which were sequenced after the pandemic, show they are only about three quarters identical to both SARS and covid-19 viruses across the genome.) It was always interesting to find new viruses, but there didn’t seem to be anything special for the researchers to write up, Shi said: “It didn’t seem to be a remarkable virus.”
It was so unremarkable, in fact, that it was expendable: In their attempts to piece together its genomic makeup, the scientists used up all the sample. By 2018 the virus existed only as a sequence in the Wuhan institute’s database.
In most cases, that would be the end of the story: the obscure, irrelevant virus would fade into oblivion. Except that it didn’t.
“I didn’t want to screw up”
At 5:30 in the morning on January 2, 2020, Si Haorui, a student on Shi’s team, headed toward the institute to start his day’s work. It was cold, and the white cloud of his breath danced around as he walked on the dark, empty street.
Si is not a morning person. He rarely emerges before 10:30. But on that frigid January morning, he had a battle to fight. Two and half days earlier, clinicians at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, the city’s infectious-disease center, had sent samples to the virology institute for urgent analysis.
They were from seven patients in serious condition who had been recently hospitalized for a mysterious pneumonia.
The following day, December 31, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued its first public statement about the outbreak, saying it was probing the cause of 27 pneumonia cases. Shi’s lab was among the first to officially investigate the illness, and Si was part of the team racing to pinpoint the cause. Working around the clock, team members had found coronavirus RdRp genes in five out of the seven patients’ samples; their next step was to sequence the viral genome. “That’s my specialty,” said Si, a slim man in his mid-20s whose eyes curve into two arcs when he smiles, the day we met at the institute’s sequencing facility. “I knew the stakes were high. I didn’t want to screw up.”
(Shi’s lab was one of the four teams designated by China’s National Health Commission to work in parallel to pin down the cause of the new disease. This was a high-profile assignment, and only the commission had the authority to declare outbreaks of an emerging infectious disease and to release the relevant information.)
Stepping into the sequencing room felt like being a soldier stepping onto the battlefield, Si recalled. He had laid out his weapons the night before—the software he had tweaked for piecing together the genomic sequence of unknown pathogens. The machine was still running, busy reading short fragments of the genetic material from the bugs in those patients’ samples. The low humming sound of the machine filled the room. Si’s eyes were fixated on the sequencer. It reached the final stage of sequencing. It began processing the files. It took forever. Time seemed to stand still. Eventually it was done, and with a slightly shaky hand, he inserted a flash disk and copied the files over. He bolted upstairs to his office, where he could link to the institute’s supercomputer for the analysis.
By 8:30 a.m., the genomic makeup had emerged. One sequence, now known as WIV04, was almost complete and of high quality: it was a coronavirus.
Shi entered the sequence into the institutional and international databases to see if it was new. The closest match was the sequence from sample 4991, which the team had taken from Mojiang in 2013. The virus, no longer obscure or irrelevant, now deserved an official name. The team called it RaTG13—Ra for the bat species it was found in, Rhinolophus affinis; TG for Tongguan, the town where it was found; and 13 for the year of its discovery. It was, as they reported in Nature a month later, 96% identical to the coronavirus found in the new patients.
The fact that RaTG13 is so similar to SARS-CoV-2 has aroused suspicion. Critics like Alina Chan—a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts—wonder why Shi’s Nature paper published in February 2020 didn’t mention that RaTG13 came from the Mojiang mine where people had come down with the mysterious pneumonia. Chan, who leans strongly towards the lab leak theory, has helped it spread far and wide, and signed the Science letter calling for further investigation of the possibility. She said in Viral, a book she co-authored with the British science writer Matt Ridley, that the Wuhan institute had been “economical with the truth” about this.
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Shi attempted to head off this kind of suspicion by publishing an addendum detailing her Mojiang studies in Nature in November 2020 to show that the team had not detected any sign of coronavirus infection in the miners’ samples. But that didn’t help squelch the speculation.
The overall similarity between the two viruses, however, is not evidence that RaTG13 is the source of covid-19, according to an article published in Cell last September, authored by two dozen or so leading virologists and infectious-disease experts. The two viruses may be related, but they sit on different evolutionary branches that diverged half a century ago, says David Robertson, a virologist at the University of Glasgow in the UK. “RaTG13 couldn’t have naturally morphed into SARS-CoV-2,” he says. Neither could anybody have used RaTG13 as the backbone to engineer SARS-CoV-2, as some proponents of the lab leak theory have argued: the two viruses are different in 1,100 or so nucleotides spread across their whole genomes—a gap too large for any realistic effort. Making SARS-CoV-2 from RaTG13, says virologist Angela Rasmussen of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, “would have required a feat of unprecedented genetic engineering.”
Meanwhile, evidence for the natural origins theory continues to mount. In the past year, several teams independent of the Wuhan institute have uncovered more than a dozen close relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in China, Japan, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. In a preprint paper posted in September 2021, a team of Laotian and French scientists reported the discovery of viruses in Laos that, according to Robertson, shared a common ancestor with SARS-CoV-2 as recently as a decade ago. These new discoveries are evidence that SARS-CoV-2 most likely evolved in the wild, says Robertson, who was not involved in the study. “We are closing in on the SARS-CoV-2 progenitor,” he says.
But even if none of the bat coronavirus samples from Shi’s team are to blame for the pandemic, they aren’t the only viruses the scientists work with. Part of their research involves studying how the machinery of viruses works; and that has involved genetic mixing and matching of different pathogens to probe the function of viral genes. Could one of those chimeric viruses have been the source of the pandemic? To find out, I needed to talk to Shi.
Genetic tinkering
The findings, published in Nature Medicine in 2015, were surprising. It turned out that both the synthesized SHC014 and the SARS-CoV-1-SHC014 chimera were able to infect human cells and make mice sick. Both were less lethal than SARS-CoV-1, but—worryingly—existing drugs and vaccines that worked against SARS were unable to counter their effects.
Meanwhile, Shi’s team was attempting similar tinkering in her own lab in a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which aimed to probe the genetic ingredients that could allow bat viruses to cause SARS-like diseases in humans. But while Baric focused on the human pathogen SARS-CoV-1 in the Nature Medicine paper, Shi used only its bat relatives—mostly WIV1, the first bat coronavirus the team had isolated. Their real-world risk to humans was unknown. By the time the pandemic broke out, her team had created a total of a dozen or so chimeric viruses by swapping WIV1’s spike with its counterpart from newly identified sequences of bat coronaviruses, only a handful of which could infect human cells in a petri dish.
There were more surprises in store. In an unpublished experiment, released by the NIH in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by The Intercept, the researchers tested the ability of three such chimeras to infect mice expressing human ACE2. Compared with their parental strain, WIV1, the three chimeric viruses grew a lot more quickly in the mouse lungs in the early stage of the infection, but WIV1 caught up by the end of the experiment.
The differences surprised Shi, but what puzzled her the most was that the chimera causing the most weight loss in infected mice—an indicator of its pathogenicity—was WIV1-SHC014, whose spike was most dissimilar to that of SARS-CoV-1. The one whose spike was most similar had no effect on the animals’ weight.
The results from genetic studies in both Baric’s and Shi’s labs—both collaborating with the New York–based EcoHealth Alliance—have provided compelling evidence that the spike protein is not the only factor in whether a virus can make an animal sick, researchers say. “We can’t assess the emergence potential of viruses using only pseudovirus assays or predictions based on genomic sequences and molecular modeling,” Shi told me.
None of the chimeras created in Shi’s labs was closely related to SARS-CoV-2, and therefore, none could have been the cause of the pandemic. But it does seem that the team created at least one chimeric virus, WIV1-SHC014, with a functional gain—that is, increased pathogenicity—relative to the parental strain, WIV. Critics like Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, regard this as the type of gain-of-function research that ought to be subject to strict regulatory oversight. But Shi says that in none of those studies—including her collaborations with Baric and with EcoHealth—did the teams intend to create more dangerous viruses. None of the chimeras had been reasonably anticipated at the time of proposal to have increased transmissibility or pathogenicity in mammals.
According to an NIH spokesperson, the grant Shi jointly applied for with the EcoHealth Alliance—the only one with a sub-award to the Wuhan institute—“was reviewed and determined by experts to fall outside the scope” of its regulatory framework for gain-of-function research.
Last September, NIH announced an award of $36.3 million to further such work. Discovering novel viruses in the wild and using genetic techniques to probe their function in the lab, researchers say, could point toward ways of mitigating and treating future disease outbreaks similar to SARS and covid-19.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/09/1044985/shi-zhengli-covid-lab-leak-wuhan/
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The second great mystery of this pandemic is why so many powerful people don’t seem to feel any sense of urgency about solving the first great mystery.
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Based on the material collected and analyzed by the Committee Minority Staff, the preponderance of evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory sometime prior to September 12, 2019. The virus, or the viral sequence that was genetically manipulated, was likely collected in a cave in Yunnan province, PRC, between 2012 and 2015. Researchers at the WIV, officials within the CCP, and potentially American citizens directly engaged in efforts to obfuscate information related to the origins of the virus and to suppress public debate of a possible lab leak. It is incumbent on these parties to respond to the issues raised herein and provide clarity and any exonerating evidence as soon as possible. Until that time, it must be assumed General Secretary Xi and the Chinese Communist Party, prioritizes preserving the Party over the lives of its own people and those around the global suffering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss a breaking announcement from Congressional Republicans
Peter Daszak asked for US-funded virus data to be withheld, FOIAed by @USRightToKnow "It's extremely important that we don't have these sequences as part of our PREDICT release.. Having them as part of PREDICT will being very unwelcome attention" https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/China-GenBank-sequences.pdf
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1480692123922055173
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/China-GenBank-sequences.pdf
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Perhaps my biggest concern regarding these previously private emails revealed today is that some of the leading experts who’ve fought vigorously against the #COVID19 lab incident hypothesis & suppressed debate had actually thought a lab origin to be a very real possibility. Quote Tweet
Oversight Committee Republicans
@GOPoversight · Jan 11
To read excerpts of emails released today, click here. https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf…Show this thread
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Transcripts of the early 2020 exchanges on the #OriginOfCovid among leading scientists in the US & Europe show they were privately worried about a lab origin of Covid-19. Yet, publicly they authored Proximal Origin, which dismissed lab origin hypotheses.
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf…11:59 AM · Jan 11, 2022·
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1480947600199229444
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Fauci Team Cared More about ‘International Harmony’ Than the Truth
By JIM GERAGHTY
January 13, 2022 9:05 AM
Fauci had conflicted reasons to not want attention to fall to WIV& a lab leak. Exerting his leadership as he did here doesn't mean he's hiding knowledge of the virus' origin. Evil villains r caricatures in political witch-hunts. SARS2's origin is non-fiction,not science fiction.
12:54 AM · Jan 17, 2022·
Imo Geraghty's correct re motive: "any thorough investigation would uncover U.S. funding for EcoHealth Alliance’s work with the WIV. Even if SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin, that.. sort of revelation.. would generate substantial American public outrage."
nationalreview.com
Fauci Team Cared More about ‘International Harmony’ Than the Truth
Is it the job of a scientist to prioritize ‘international harmony’?
4:44 PM · Jan 17, 2022·
Scientists Who Were Instrumental to COVID-19 ‘Natural Origins’ Narrative Received Over $50 Million in NIAID Funding in 2020-2021
Jeff Carlson Hans Mahncke January 19, 2022 Updated: January 19, 2022
Scientists who were instrumental to #COVID19 ‘natural origins’ narrative received over $50 Million in NIAID funding in 2020-2021, reflecting substantial increases in grant $, an @EpochTimes
review of funding data has found. @themarketswork @HansMahncke
theepochtimes.com
Scientists Who Were Instrumental to COVID-19 'Natural Origins' Narrative Received Over $50 Million...
News Analysis Four prominent scientists who played key roles in shaping the public narrative around the origin of ...
11:10 AM · Jan 19, 2022·
The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins
BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER JANUARY 13, 2022
Regardless, it took them a full month before this small group finally came out with what appeared to be a definitive paper appearing in Nature: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. The date it appeared was March 17, 2020. That was the day following the announcement of lockdowns in the US. We now know that the paper was written as early as February 4, and went through many drafts over the coming weeks, including edits by Anthony Fauci himself. That paper has since been debated very extensively. It was hardly the last word.
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
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Did Covid Leak from a Lab in China - Channel 4 Documentary
Aug 23, 2021 Anthony Ying
Wuhan ‘lab leak’: Explosive Channel 4 documentary provides compelling evidence supporting Covid origin theory. Yet it's still inconclusive because China will not allow any actual studies to be done, only specific information that they provide to their hand-picked group of researchers.
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Addendum: A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
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Is the party over for Boris? | The spiked podcast
Jan 14, 2022 spiked
The No10 garden party, freedom after Covid, the lab-leak theory and how wokeness became a parody of itself… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan discuss.
00:00 Intro
00:22 Party-gate
12:30 Freedom after Covid
22:50 Lab-leak theory
31:00 Microaggressions
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Origins of Covid-19 -an investigation of The Wuhan Institute of Virology
August 2021
HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPORT MINORITY STAFF LEAD REPUBLICAN MICHAEL T. MCCAUL
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
I. The City of Wuhan: Epicenter of a Pandemic................................................13
II. Evidence of a Lab Leak..................................................................................14
III. Evidence of Genetic Modification................................................................29
IV. Evidence of a Lab Leak Cover-Up .................................................................41
V. Hypothesis: A Lab Leak That Caused a Pandemic........................................58
VI. Recommendations.......................................................................................60
VII. Conclusion...................................................................................................62
VIII. Appendix......................................................................................................63
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J Michael Waller
@JMichaelWaller
2 years ago: The first known carrier of the virus to the United States arrives on a flight from Wuhan. At this time, CCP leadership knows about the pandemic danger but keeps it secret from the world. #MakeChinaPay https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wuhan-virus/
https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1482936074397749248
Wuhan Virus
China’s propaganda pandemic in an expanding timeline, November 2019-April 2020
Click here for Part Two of the timeline starting May 2020
Latest update: May 30, 2020, 19:43 Washington DC time.
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wuhan-virus/
Addendum: A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
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FUTURE VIROLOGYVOL. 15, NO. 6 SHORT COMMUNICATIONFree Access
The divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 might be overestimated due to the extensive RNA modification
Yue Li, Xinai Yang, Na Wang, Haiyan Wang, Bin Yin, Xiaoping Yang & Wenqing Jiang Published Online:24 Apr 2020
https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2020-0066
https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fvl-2020-0066
What are the chances of someone catching COVID from international mail? I'd say it's near impossible unless they were aerosolizing + inhaling their letters. "contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection"
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1483264851459850244
US record breaking cases and hospitalizations
Jan 11, 2022 Dr. John Campbell
United States, report record cases and people in hospital, for all of the pandemic so far https://www.reuters.com/business/heal... Monday, Reuters, 1.35 million new coronavirus infections (Previous record was 1.03 million cases on Jan. 3.) Past week, 700,000 per day Hospitalized Also hit an all-time high Doubled in past three weeks Monday, 136,604 people hospitalized with COVID-19 Previous record, 132,051, January 2021 Ongoing staff out sick Many elective procedures suspended Schools Staff, teachers, bus drivers Chicago classes cancelled New York City, three subway lines out Deaths 1,700 per day Pfizer, omicron vaccine in March Zoe study https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicro... US cases and deaths data https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-trac... Colorado https://covid19.colorado.gov/data California https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboar... Florida http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_par... New York https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/cov... Illinois https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data... https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/... UK data https://www.gov.uk/government/publica... https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels... https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk Zoe https://covid.joinzoe.com SA hospital data https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-i... https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/... https://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/... https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-to... https://www.france24.com/en/live-news... Next 6 to 8 weeks More than half of people in Europe could be infected Hans Kluge, director for Europe a new west-to-east tidal wave sweeping across the region The region saw over seven million cases of Covid-19 in the first week of 2022, more than doubling over a two-week period 26 countries, more than 1 % being infected per week Boosters, play an essential role in protecting the most vulnerable people from severe disease Also for health workers, teachers Lower vaccination rates Balkans and Eastern Europe For countries not yet hit with the omicron surge, there is a closing window to act now and plan for contingencies France, Prime Minister Jean Castex If we were to shut down classes as soon as there is one first case, bearing in mind the explosion of Omicron, all French schools would be closed in a matter of days Catherine Smallwood, W.H.O. senior emergencies officer Some sense of predictability needed to move from pandemic to endemic We are still ways off We still have a huge amount of uncertainty
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’
Emails to Dr Anthony Fauci show ‘likely’ explanation identified at start of coronavirus pandemic, but there were worries about saying so
BySarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR11 January 2022 • 9:31pm
Emails show scientists seriously discussed the laboratory leak theory, but that they feared the debate could damage science in China
- Coronavirus
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/11/scientists-believed-covid-leaked-wuhan-lab-feared-debate-could/
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Why did scientists suppress the lab-leak theory?
In private, they said it was plausible. In public, they called it a conspiracy theory.
Richard H. Ebright@R_H_Ebright"Emails exchanged [between Fauci and otheres]..after a conference call on 1 February 2020..show..they not only thought the virus might have leaked from..lab, but..also..thought..genome sequence..showed..strong likelihood of having been..mutated in..lab."
spiked-online.comWhy did scientists suppress the lab-leak theory?In private, they said it was plausible. In public, they called it a conspiracy theory.10:49 AM · Jan 12, 2022·
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1481292157809999877
"Doomed To Fail" - Top Immunologist Blasts Global COVID Response Driven By "False Propaganda"
BY TYLER DURDENTHURSDAY, JAN 13, 2022 - 04:44 AM
Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
Translation: Covid's unique furin cleavage site contains a match for a furin cleavage site that was previously characterized at the University of North Carolina many years ago. UNC is where Ralph Baric has his lab. Baric famously collaborated with the Wuhan lab.
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1481715805838532608
Contradicting Donald Trump, protecting science’s reputation at all costs, and keeping in with those who dole out large grants are pretty strong incentives to change one’s mind.
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1482042326096793604
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/12/why-did-scientists-suppress-the-lab-leak-theory/
Very interesting! Furin cleavage site (FCS) of #SARSCoV2 is identical to FCS of human epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) which was characterized by Stutts Lab at UNC (where Baric lab is located). What a coincidence
https://elifesciences.org/articles/58603
Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright ·
Jan 13Replying to @R_H_Ebright and @TheSeeker268In this context, it is noteworthy that the FCS site of human ENaC-alpha was characterized at UNC (https://jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(19)75354-X/fulltext…; https://rupress.org/jgp/article/150/8/1179/43745/The-N-terminus-of-ENaC-mediates-ENaC-cleavage-and…), and thus likely would be known to UNC members of the research team on NIH grant 2R01-AI110964 and the DARPA Defuse proposal.3:41 PM · Jan 13, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Dr_Al911/status/1481728179790237704
SARS-CoV-2 strategically mimics proteolytic activation of human ENaC
- Praveen Anand,
- Arjun Puranik,
- Murali Aravamudan,
- AJ Venkatakrishnan
- Venky Soundararajan
- nference Labs, India;
- nference, Inc, United States
https://elifesciences.org/articles/58603
Short Report May 26, 2020
Yesterday Israeli Medical Association called for stopping mass testings and quarantines, and stopping Covid passports. Today the largest hospital in Israel attacked Ministry of Health for its "insane policies". The tide is turning. The official narrative is falling apart.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1482456326122967041
Covid Has Exposed Problems in How Scientists Share Data
Many researchers are calling for new standards of transparency after files on early Covid patients in China disappeared for over a year
By Amy Dockser Marcus Jan. 13, 2022 11:57 am ET
Rossana Segreto
@Rossana38510044
It looks like that the conspiracy orchestrated by Fauci & co. to take down the lab leak hypothesis involved also the WHO. No wonder their first "investigation" concluded that SARS2 was more likely to have originated in imported frozen food than a lab. https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55996728…
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·Jan 15
Replying to @TheSeeker268
Underrated email from Feb 5 from the Buzzfeed batch in this context: Notice the words "pressure" ( on the to-be-formed WHO group) and "forward immediately" (the Proximal origin draft Fauci). Oh, and "glycans" @Rossana38510044 @Ayjchan @ydeigin
12:01 PM · Jan 15, 2022·
https://twitter.com/Rossana38510044/status/1482397450979708939
It appears that the people who convened the Proximal Origin authors who staunchly dismissed a lab #OriginOfCovid may have also shaped the membership of the @WHO team that went to China and ruled a lab origin as extremely unlikely. h/t @CDommasch https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf…
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1482697425173336065
U.S. Reports Record 1.48 Million New Covid Cases As Hospitalizations Near All Time High
Jan 11, 2022 Forbes Breaking News
The U.S. reported 1.48 million new coronavirus cases on Monday, smashing last week’s record single-day rise as the highly transmissible omicron variant tears across the country, stretching healthcare networks as the number of Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 pushes towards record levels. READ MORE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertha...
JUST IN: Roger Marshall Confronts Fauci On Gain-Of-Function Research, Low Favorable Numbers
Jan 11, 2022 Forbes Breaking News
At today's Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson
JUST IN: Rand Paul And Dr. Fauci Engage In Another Epic Senate Clash: 'Reprehensible!'
Jan 11, 2022
Forbes Breaking News
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dr. Anthony Fauci clash in today's Senate Health Committee hearing.
In a Fiery Hearing, Fauci Accuses Senator Rand Paul of Fueling Threats Against His Life
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson
Jan 2, 2022,07:04pm EST|7,
Beijing Is Intentionally Underreporting China’s Covid Death Rate (Part 1)
George Calhoun ContributorMarkets Quantitative Finance Program Director, at Stevens Inst. of Technology
- “The official figures do not reflect the true death toll, particularly in China…” - Newsweek
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/02/beijing-is-intentionally-underreporting-chinas-covid-death-rate-part-1/
WUHAN, CHINA - JANUARY 22: (CHINA OUT) A man wears a mask while walking in the street on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. A new infectious coronavirus known as "2019-nCoV" was discovered in Wuhan as the number of cases rose to over 400 in mainland China. Health officials stepped up efforts to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts confirmed can be passed from human to human. The death toll has reached 17 people as the Wuhan government issued regulations today that residents must wear masks in public places. Cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. (Photo by Getty Images) GETTY IMAGES
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove says Britain's science sector has been compromised by 'malign Chinese Communist influence' which is why it parroted China's party line that Covid did NOT leak from a Wuhan lab
- Ex-MI6 boss said UK universities have become dependent on Chinese funding
- He raised concerns on whether Britain echoed China's 'information campaign'
- Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is laboratory at the centre of alleged cover-up
- China has repeatedly insisted the virus spilled naturally into humans from bats
By KATIE WESTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:36 EST, 9 December 2021 | UPDATED: 11:52 EST, 9 December 2021
How China made Covid worse
The regime's deceit stalled the pandemic response
BY IAN BIRRELL
https://unherd.com/2021/12/how-china-made-covid-worse/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
Pursued On All Sides By Journalists and Congress, Peter Daszak Seeks Refuge At Science Magazine
Enough with silly nonreporting reporting, send the subpoenas.
It’s time for subpoenas. Time for Daszak to appear before Congress. Time for some real public accountability.
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pursued-on-all-sides-by-journalists
SARS-CoV-2’s closest relative, RaTG13, was generated from a bat transcriptome not a fecal swab: implications for the origin of COVID-19
By Steven E Massey
https://drasticresearch.org/2021/11/23/sars-cov-2s-closest-relative-ratg13-was-generated-from-a-bat-transcriptome-not-a-fecal-swab-implications-for-the-origin-of-covid-19/
stevenEmassey@gmail.com
Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
This new paper by @stevenemassey is now available to download here
This version 2 will soon to be published on Researchgate and Arxiv
The three introductory threads can be viewed here:
Evidence for ‘live’ RaTG13 at WIV Part 1
Evidence for ‘live’ RaTG13 at WIV, Part 2
Evidence for ‘live’ RaTG13 at WIV Part 3
An investigation into the WIV databases that were taken offline
- February 2021
DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.28029.08160
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha
Gravitas: Lab leak "most likely" source of Covid-19, British MPs told
Dec 16, 2021 WION
Alina Chan told British MPs that a lab leak is "the most likely" source of the Wuhan virus. She also asked the Lancet to share the research it received from Chinese scientists. Palki Sharma tells you how the lab leak theory is back in focus.
Lancet editor who published letter slamming Covid lab leak theory as 'conspiracy' admits he knew about lead author's links to Chinese lab at centre of cover-up for a YEAR before acknowledging conflict of interests
- Dr Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, said it took 16 months to publish official conflict of interest statement
- Admitted he knew that Dr Peter Daszak had links to the Wuhan laboratory at the centre of the spillover theory
- Claimed it took longer than a year to persuade Dr Daszak to formally record his links with China
By JOE DAVIES HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE and VICTORIA ALLEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 05:42 EST, 17 December 2021 | UPDATED: 13:33 EST, 17 December 2021
INVESTIGATIONS JAN. 4, 2021
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
The Lab Leak Fiasco
For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic’s origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable
BY ASHLEY RINDSBERG NOVEMBER 15, 2021
"The media successfully couched lab leak as a conspiracy theory with roots in Trumpian politics, environmental denialism, and anti-Chinese sentiment."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/lab-leak-fiasco
The truthtellers
China created a story of the pandemic. These people revealed details Beijing left out
By Julia Hollingsworth and Yong Xiong.
Designed by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, Jason Kwok and Marco Chacón.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/02/asia/china-wuhan-covid-truthtellers-intl-hnk-dst/
Covid lab-leak researcher Alina Chan is glad she challenged China’s Wuhan ‘cover up’ despite death threats
INTERVIEW
‘My primary emotion is determination to find out the truth,’ says the co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origins of Covid-19’
November 22, 2021 7:00 am(Updated November 23, 2021 5:57 pm)
Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2
Posted on December 2, 2021 by Shannon Murray
https://usrtk.org/biohazards/biosafety-expert-close-to-wuhan-institute-of-virology-urged-associates-there-to-address-his-tough-questions-about-lab-origin-of-sars-cov-2/
How China made Covid worse
The regime's deceit stalled the pandemic response
BY IAN BIRRELL
https://unherd.com/2021/12/how-china-made-covid-worse/
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
VOLUME 398, ISSUE 10318, P2221, DECEMBER 18, 2021
Offline: The origin story—division deepens
Published:December 18, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02833-6
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02833-6/fulltext
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The Lancet, 18 Dec.21
"To be clear, the lab leak theory was and remains a perfectly legitimate line of inquiry." https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02833-6/fulltext…...
The Lancet, 19 Feb.20
"We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin."
thelancet.com
Offline: The origin story—division deepens
After more than a year of contentious debate about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, David Relman and colleagues, including Alina Chan and Michael Worobey, published a letter in Science on May 14, 2021,...
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Genomic Characterization of Diverse Bat Coronavirus HKU10 in Hipposideros Bats
by Ning Wang 1,2,3,*,†,Chu-Ming Luo 1,2,†,Xing-Lou Yang 1,Hai-Zhou Liu 1,Li-Biao Zhang 4,Wei Zhang 1,Bei Li 1,Yan Zhu 1,Cheng Peng 1,Zheng-Li Shi 1 andBen Hu 1,*1CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China3Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China4Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou 510260, China*Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.†
These authors contributed equally to this work. Academic Editor: Andrew DavidsonViruses 2021, 13(10), 1962;
https://doi.org/10.3390/v13101962Received: 30 July 2021 / Revised: 19 September 2021 / Accepted: 23 September 2021 / Published: 29 September 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bats and Coronaviruses)
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/1962
Abstract
Bats have been identified as natural reservoirs of a variety of coronaviruses. They harbor at least 19 of the 33 defined species of alpha- and betacoronaviruses. Previously, the bat coronavirus HKU10 was found in two bat species of different suborders, Rousettus leschenaultia and Hipposideros pomona, in south China. However, its geographic distribution and evolution history are not fully investigated. Here, we screened this viral species by a nested reverse transcriptase PCR in our archived samples collected over 10 years from 25 provinces of China and one province of Laos. From 8004 bat fecal samples, 26 were found to be positive for bat coronavirus HKU10 (BtCoV HKU10). New habitats of BtCoV HKU10 were found in the Yunnan, Guangxi, and Hainan Provinces of China, and Louang Namtha Province in Laos. In addition to H. pomona, BtCoV HKU10 variants were found circulating in Aselliscus stoliczkanus and Hipposideros larvatus. We sequenced full-length genomes of 17 newly discovered BtCoV HKU10 strains and compared them with previously published sequences. Our results revealed a much higher genetic diversity of BtCoV HKU10, particularly in spike genes and accessory genes. Besides the two previously reported lineages, we found six novel lineages in their new habitats, three of which were located in Yunnan province. The genotypes of these viruses are closely related to sampling locations based on polyproteins, and correlated to bat species based on spike genes. Combining phylogenetic analysis, selective pressure, and molecular-clock calculation, we demonstrated that Yunnan bats harbor a gene pool of BtCoV HKU10, with H. pomona as a natural reservoir. The cell tropism test using spike-pseudotyped lentivirus system showed that BtCoV HKU10 could enter cells from human and bat, suggesting a potential interspecies spillover. Continuous studies on these bat coronaviruses will expand our understanding of the evolution and genetic diversity of coronaviruses, and provide a prewarning of potential zoonotic diseases from bats. View Full-Text
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. 2021 Dec 23;S1673-8527(21)00373-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.12.003. Online ahead of print.
Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
Changshuo Wei 1, Ke-Jia Shan 1, Weiguang Wang 1, Shuya Zhang 1, Qing Huan 2, Wenfeng Qian 3Affiliations expand
- PMID: 34954396
- PMCID: PMC8702434
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.12.003
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34954396/
Abstract
The rapid accumulation of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant that enabled its outbreak raises questions as to whether its proximal origin occurred in humans or another mammalian host. Here, we identified 45 point mutations that Omicron acquired since divergence from the B.1.1 lineage. We found that the Omicron spike protein sequence was subjected to stronger positive selection than that of any reported SARS-CoV-2 variants known to evolve persistently in human hosts, suggesting a possibility of host-jumping. The molecular spectrum of mutations (i.e., the relative frequency of the 12 types of base substitutions) acquired by the progenitor of Omicron was significantly different from the spectrum for viruses that evolved in human patients, but resembled the spectra associated with virus evolution in a mouse cellular environment. Furthermore, mutations in the Omicron spike protein significantly overlapped with SARS-CoV-2 mutations known to promote adaptation to mouse hosts, particularly through enhanced spike protein binding affinity for the mouse cell entry receptor. Collectively, our results suggest that the progenitor of Omicron jumped from humans to mice, rapidly accumulated mutations conducive to infecting that host, then jumped back into humans, indicating an inter-species evolutionary trajectory for the Omicron outbreak.
1 Passage of SARS-CoV-2 in cells expressing human and mouse ACE2 selects for mouse-adapted 2 and ACE2-independent viruses 3 4 Kexin Yan1 , Troy Dumenil1 , Thuy T. Le1 , Bing Tang1 , Cameron Bishop1 , Andreas Suhrbier1,2 5 , Daniel J. Rawle1* 6 . 7 1 8 Immunology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland. 9 4029, Australia. 2 10 Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, GVN Center of Excellence, Brisbane, 11 Queensland, 4029 and 4072, Australia. 12 * 13 Corresponding author. Email: Daniel.Rawle@qimrberghofer.edu.au
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.16.473063v1.full.pdf
SUMMARY 23 Human ACE2 (hACE2) is required for cell attachment and entry of SARS-CoV-2. Mouse ACE2 24 (mACE2) does not support infection of early SARS-CoV-2 isolates. Herein we describe a new 25 system for generating mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 in vitro by serial passaging virus in co26 cultures of cell lines expressing hACE2 and mACE2. Mouse-adapted viruses emerged with a 27 series of spike protein amino acid changes, all of which have been reported in human isolates. 28 Mouse-adapted viruses replicated to high titers in C57BL/6J mouse lungs and nasal turbinates, 29 and caused severe lung histopathology. Remarkably, one mouse-adapted virus was able to 30 replicate efficiently in ACE2-negative cell lines, a characteristic not described for any SARS31 CoV-2 variants. ACE2-independent entry by SARS-CoV-2 represents a new biology for SARS32 CoV-2 with potential widespread implications for disease and intervention development.
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This is long overdue. Opinion | The world deserves a thorough review of the pandemic. Congress must set up a covid-19 commission. - The Washington Post Katherine Eban
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Opinion | The world deserves a thorough review of the pandemic. Congress must set up a covid-19...
We call on our colleagues in Congress to support and pass the bipartisan National Commission on the Covid-19 Pandemic Act
https://twitter.com/KatherineEban/status/1466257033548775425
The mystery of where omicron came from — and why it matters
December 1, 20212:48 PM ET NURITH AIZENMAN
CORONAVIRUS
As COVID-19 Origins Get Another Look, Nearly Half of the Public Backs Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
About a quarter of U.S. adults believe the virus moved naturally from animals to humans
BY GABY GALVIN June 9, 2021 at 5:00 am ET
- 70% of Republicans and 32% of Democrats believe the coronavirus spilled from a lab in Wuhan, China.
- Republicans were twice as likely to have heard “a lot” about the lab leak theory than the idea that the virus moved naturally from animals to people.
- 55% of adults have at least some trust in U.S. intelligence agencies to be transparent about the pandemic’s origins.
- https://morningconsult.com/2021/06/09/coronavirus-lab-leak-wuhan-china-poll/
- https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1466373580774510596
December 1, 20213:12 PM EST Technology
Facebook, Instagram remove Chinese network over fake 'Swiss biologist' COVID claims
By James Pearson and Elizabeth Culliford Dec 1 (Reuters)
To Deny the "Lab Leak" COVID Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources
A bizarre and abrupt reversal by scientists regarding COVID's origins, along with clear conflicts of interest, create serious doubts about their integrity. Yet major news outlets keep relying on them.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/to-deny-the-lab-leak-covid-theory
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha
Scientists Square Off Over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak
A group of academics claim the president of EcoHealth Alliance has misled the public amid Covid origins investigations.
Top: Peter Daszak (in vehicle) and other members of the WHO team investigating the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, January 29, 2021. Visual: Hector Tetamal / AFP via Getty Images
11.24.2021
Charles Schmidt is a recipient of the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award. His work has appeared in Science, Nature Biotechnology, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and The Washington Post, among other publications
THE COVID LAB LEAK THEORY JUST GOT EVEN STRONGER
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
Published on: Saturday, 20 November, 2021
https://www.mattridley.co.uk/10745
Everyone ignored the confession.
Quote Tweet Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke
Periodic reminder that on March 28, 2016, Daszak described exactly what led to the pandemic. This could not be clearer and yet we're still turning in circles because corrupt scientists and their media flunkies are still relentlessly pushing the natural origins hoax.
Show this thread
https://twitter.com/KevinMcH3/status/1463898150071160839
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What Happened in Wuhan?
Four books pursue theories of possible origins of the Covid-19 virus—and the question of cover-ups.
By Adam O’NealNov. 26, 2021 5:06 pm ET
CNN Exclusive: WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019
By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Updated 6:56 AM ET, Mon February 15, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl/index.html
Coronavirus origins: WHO’s Sago experts sit down for first meeting
Months in the making, the 27-member scientific advisory group begins its ‘critical work at a critical time’
World Health Organization chief Tedros says the group’s aim is to bring focus squarely back to the science
Simone McCarthy Published: 3:31pm, 25 Nov, 2021
The World Health Organization has tasked the 27 Sago members with recommending the next steps for studies into the emergence of the new coronavirus. Photo: Shutterstock
CORRECTED PROOF
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2
Yujia Alina Chan, Shing Hei Zhan Author NotesMolecular Biology and Evolution, msab327, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab327Published: 12 November 2021
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msab327/6426085
About the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus category
https://virological.org/c/novel-2019-coronavirus/33
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha
What Really Happened in Wuhan: Investigating the Chinese lab leak theory
Nov 28, 2021 Sky News Australia
People with the most access to intelligence are telling the world it is “more than just a possibility” the origin of COVID-19 is a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In this special investigation into the dawn of the coronavirus, Sky News Australia examines what really happened in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic before the world really knew the sinister virus was spreading from country to country. Award-winning journalist Sharri Markson, a Sky News Australia anchor and Investigations Writer at The Australian, has been at the forefront of investigating the origins of COVID-19 since early in 2020 when the virus spread globally. Sharri also speaks with a range of Chinese whistle-blowers, scientists, and high-ranking intelligence officials to bring us closer to discovering the truth of what happened in Wuhan.
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” Thomas Jefferson
The truthtellers
China created a story of the pandemic. These people revealed details Beijing left out
By Julia Hollingsworth and Yong Xiong.
Designed by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, Jason Kwok and Marco Chacón.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/02/asia/china-wuhan-covid-truthtellers-intl-hnk-dst/
Covid lab-leak researcher Alina Chan is glad she challenged China’s Wuhan ‘cover up’ despite death threats
INTERVIEW
‘My primary emotion is determination to find out the truth,’ says the co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origins of Covid-19’
November 22, 2021 7:00 am(Updated November 23, 2021 5:57 pm)
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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson
How Dr. Fauci and Other Officials Withheld Information on China's Coronavirus Experiments
BY ROWAN JACOBSEN ON 11/22/21 AT 3:10 PM EST
What Daszak didn't reveal at the time was that the WIV had been using the NIH grant money to genetically engineer dozens of novel coronaviruses discovered in bat samples, and that he knew it was entirely possible that one of those samples had contained SARS-CoV-2 and had infected a researcher, as he conceded to the journal Science in a November 17 interview: "Of course it's possible—things have happened in the past."
The NIH fought for more than a year to keep details about the EcoHealth grant under wraps. The 528 pages of proposals, conditions, emails, and progress reports revealed that EcoHealth had funded experiments at the WIV that were considerably riskier than the ones previously disclosed.
Documents from the National Institutes of Health Call into Question Articles by Science Writers at Nature, Science, and the New York Times
Pre-prints bolstering claims the COVID-19 pandemic did not start in a Wuhan lab are a science writer’s favorite meal.
BioEssays PROBLEMS & PARADIGMS Open Access
The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin
SARS-COV-2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulation
Rossana Segreto,Yuri Deigin First published: 17 November 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000240Citations: 16
No external funding was received for this work.
Rossana Segreto and Yuri Deigin contributed equally to this study.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000240
Broad Institute Of MIT And Harvard Scientist On Importance Of Finding What Caused COVID Pandemic
Program: CBSN Boston Categories: News, WBZTV
Covid lab-leak researcher Alina Chan is glad she challenged China’s Wuhan ‘cover up’ despite death threats
INTERVIEW
‘My primary emotion is determination to find out the truth,’ says the co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origins of Covid-19’
November 22, 2021 7:00 am
(Updated November 23, 2021 5:57 pm)
CORONAVIRUS
The Covid-19 lab-leak theory: ‘I’ve had death threats’
Dr Alina Chan, a 33-year-old scientist, is thinking of changing her name. Why? Her 18-month investigation into the theory that the Covid-19 virus really could have come from the Wuhan laboratory after all
Rhys Blakely Thursday November 11 2021, 12.01am GMT, The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-ive-had-death-threats-szsvcfcrb
Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2
Posted on December 2, 2021 by Shannon Murray
"He who knows best knows how little he knows." Thomas Jefferson
PROPHET IN PURGATORY
EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak is fighting accusations that his pandemic prevention work helped spark COVID-19
- 17 NOV 2021 BYJON COHEN
- https://www.science.org/content/article/we-ve-done-nothing-wrong-ecohealth-leader-fights-charges-his-research-helped-spark-covid-19
- "Poor Peter is being crucified."
Peter Daszak’s scientific collaboration with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has come under intense scrutiny. ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE
The Lab Leak Fiasco
For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic’s origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable
BYASHLEY RINDSBERG NOVEMBER 15, 2021
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/lab-leak-fiasco
Documents from the National Institutes of Health Call into Question Articles by Science Writers at Nature, Science, and the New York Times
Pre-prints bolstering claims the COVID-19 pandemic did not start in a Wuhan lab are a science writer’s favorite meal.
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/documents-from-the-national-institutes
BioEssays PROBLEMS & PARADIGMS Open Access
The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin
SARS-COV-2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulation
Rossana Segreto,Yuri Deigin First published: 17 November 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000240Citations: 16
No external funding was received for this work.
Rossana Segreto and Yuri Deigin contributed equally to this study.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000240
First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims
A new review of early Covid-19 cases in the journal Science will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over how the pandemic began.
By Carl Zimmer, Benjamin Mueller and Chris Buckley
Nov. 18, 2021Updated 5:14 p.m. ET
" This year, Dr. Daszak has been one of the strongest critics of the lab-leak theory. He and his organization, EcoHealth Alliance, have taken heat for research collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Last month, the National Institutes of Health said EcoHealth was in breach of the terms and conditions of its grant for research on coronaviruses in bats."
Crazy the @nytimes hardly covers the lab incident pandemic origin hypothesis then magnifies a relatively minor & non-determinative paper to create the false impression it demonstrates a “natural” #COVID19 origin not associated with a lab incident.
https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1461843558290317321
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
From magazine issue: 20 November 2021
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger
THE COVID LAB LEAK THEORY JUST GOT EVEN STRONGER
Published on: Saturday, 20 November, 2021
https://www.mattridley.co.uk/10745
Pursued On All Sides By Journalists and Congress, Peter Daszak Seeks Refuge At Science Magazine
Enough with silly nonreporting reporting, send the subpoenas.
It’s time for subpoenas. Time for Daszak to appear before Congress. Time for some real public accountability.
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pursued-on-all-sides-by-journalists
Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
November 3, 2021 by Shannon Murray
Here is a reading list about what is known and not known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, accidents and leaks at biosafety and biowarfare laboratories, and the health risks of gain-of-function (GOF) research, which aims to increase the host range, transmissibility, infectivity or pathogenicity of potential pandemic pathogens. For more information about the U.S. Right to Know investigation into these topics, see our biohazards page.
This reading list is a work in progress. We will update it.
Please send readings we may have missed to Shannon Murray at shannon@usrtk.org.
Topics (drop links)Most recent articlesWhat are the origins of SARS-CoV-2?Transparency failures and the suppression of evidence regarding COVID-19
Accidents, leaks, transparency failures in biosafety facilities
Networks of biodefense and biowarfare
Debates on gain-of-function research
Scientific papers on the origins of SARS-CoV-2
Investigative blog articles on the origins of SARS-CoV-2
Why we are suing the NIH for Covid-19 information
Posted on November 8, 2021 by Gary Ruskin
A year ago, a fearful world was struggling to emerge from a paralyzing pandemic, a confusing health care crisis that emerged swiftly to sicken and kill millions.
https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/why-we-are-suing-the-nih-for-covid-19-information/
Public notice of proposed new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) members
(Updated 9 November 2021) 13 October 2021
After careful consideration of all applications submitted to WHO, the following individuals are proposed for membership of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).
Following the re-opening of the call on 1 November 2021, the Secretariat is adding two additional members to the original 26, for a total of 28. The names of the additional two proposed members can be found at the bottom of the list; they will now be subject to a two-week public comment period.
WHO will be finalizing the appointment of the first 26 members in the coming days following the review of comments received during their notice period.
An Engineered Origin for the SARS-CoV2 Genome.
https://medium.com/@SherlockGNomes/an-engineered-origin-for-the-sars-cov2-genome-47914a6919ad
Letter confirms Wuhan lab’s COVID-19 leak was funded by US taxpayers
By Joel Zinberg November 4, 2021 10:26pm Updated
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
COVID-19 OUTBREAK & COVER-UP
https://www.theepochtimes.com/infographic-covid-19-outbreak-cover-up_4025512.html
Nov 04 2021
Washington—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today introduced legislation to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the COVID-19 outbreak and identify lessons learned regarding U.S. preparedness, response and recovery to improve our ability to respond to future outbreaks.
‘Another Domino Has Fallen’: Top GOP Lawmakers Pledge To Hold Fauci Accountable Following DCNF Report On Wuhan Gain Of Function Experiments
ANDREW KERRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTER November 05, 20212:56 PM ET
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/05/gop-lawmakers-anthony-fauci-wuhan-gain-of-function/
Risky MERSr-CoV research in Wuhan
https://medium.com/@bioinfoscience/risky-mersr-cov-research-in-wuhan-af4d638450b4
Pentagon gave millions to EcoHealth Alliance for weapons research program
By Samuel Chamberlain July 1, 2021 10:47pm Updated
https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/pentagon-gave-millions-to-ecohealth-alliance-for-wuhan-lab/
Chinese Journalist Jailed For Wuhan Covid Coverage "May Not Survive"
A citizen journalist who attempted to report on China's initial response to Covid in Wuhan was detained In May 2020 and sentenced to four years' in jail for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
WorldAgence France-Presse Updated: November 05, 2021 2:18 pm IST
Is the debate over the origin of Covid-19 still worth having?
By John P. Moore Nov. 5, 2021
https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/05/is-debate-about-origin-of-covid-19-still-worth-having/
DECLASSIFIED ASSESSMENT ON COVID-19 ORIGINS
Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins
Date: October 29, 2021
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today released a declassified Intelligence Community assessment on COVID-19 origins.
Download the report. Published in Reports & Publications 2021
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf
How NIH-funded research in China could have led to the COVID-19 pandemic
PrintEmailShareTweetPosted on September 17, 2021 by Shannon Murray
A multimillion-dollar bat coronavirus research grant, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was made public last week, revealing that researchers based in Wuhan, China had manipulated coronaviruses in ways that led to increased severity of infection, employing platforms that tested the ability of bat coronaviruses to use human receptors.
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Thomas Jefferson
NIH OFFICIALS WORKED WITH ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE TO EVADE RESTRICTIONS ON CORONAVIRUS EXPERIMENTS
Emails show that NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own gain-of-function research.
Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl November 3 2021, 2:27 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2021/11/03/coronavirus-research-ecohealth-nih-emails/?utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Staffers Flagged Potential Gain-Of-Function Research At Wuhan Lab In 2016, Records Reveal
ANDREW KERR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER November 03, 20213:45 PM ET
- Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that taxpayer dollars may be funding gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab, but dropped the issue after nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance downplayed the concerns, documents show.
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases staffers reversed course after requesting EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak submitted a “determination” to the agency that downplayed the risks of his proposed experiments, the records show.
- “The NIH, incredibly, accepted EcoHealth’s belief that this work would not be considered gain of function, and accepted EcoHealth’s rationale for this belief,” Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright told the DCNF.
- Daszak also notified NIAID staffers in a June 27, 2016, email that he was reliant on Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli, who has known ties with the Chinese military, to notify him if their lab-created viruses exhibited enhanced replication.
- The records were obtained by the White Coat Waste Project as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and provided exclusively to the DCNF.
- https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/03/fauci-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-gain-of-function-wuhan-covid-19/
The Honorable Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Director National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20892
https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021.10.27-Letter-to-NIH.pdf
An Engineered Origin for the SARS-CoV2 Genome.
Sherlock G.Nomes
https://medium.com/@SherlockGNomes/an-engineered-origin-for-the-sars-cov2-genome-47914a6919ad
JUST IN: Rand Paul Tells Fauci He Changed Website To 'Cover Your Ass' On Gain-Of-Function Research
Nov 4, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
At today's Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had another clash with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson
OPINION Published
Sen. Rand Paul, MD: NIH lied and continues to lie about 'gain of function' research and COVID
One way of denying that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan is to scrub the NIH website of its ‘gain-of-function’ definition.
Risk and Benefit Analysis of Gain of Function Research Final Report—April 2016
750,000 dead: COVID-19 has now killed nearly as many Americans as the Civil War
https://flipboard.com/video/usa-today/1719bdb1bc
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
EDITORIAL
Self-inflicted wounds
H. HOLDEN THORP SCIENCE•11 Nov 2021•Vol 374, Issue 6569•p. 793•DOI: 10.1126/science.abn1244
The proposal featured EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, as the principal investigator, and several coronavirus researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Duke–National University of Singapore Medical School. It described experiments to introduce proteolytic cleavage sites into SARSlike coronaviruses. Such a site in SARS-CoV-2 (cleaved by furin) enables the virus to efficiently infect human cells. How the furin cleavage site wound up in the virus is a focus of debate over the origins of the pandemic.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn1244
Free SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein S1 Particles May Play a Role in the Pathogenesis of COVID-19 Infection
Andrey V Letarov 1 2, Vladislav V Babenko 3, Eugene E Kulikov 4Affiliations expand
- PMID: 33838638 PMCID: PMC7772528
- DOI: 10.1134/S0006297921030032
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33838638/
SARS-CoV-2 targets cortical neurons of 3D human brain organoids and shows neurodegeneration-like effects
Anand Ramani, Lisa Müller, Philipp Niklas Ostermann, Elke Gabriel, Pranty Abida-Islam, Andreas Müller-Schiffmann, Aruljothi Mariappan, Olivier Goureau, Henning Gruell, Andreas Walker, Marcel Andrée, Sandra Hauka, Torsten Houwaart, Alexander Dilthey, Kai Wohlgemuth, Heymut Omran, Florian Klein, Dagmar Wieczorek, Ortwin Adams, Jörg Timm, Carsten Korth, Heiner Schaal, Jay Gopalakrishnandoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.20.106575
Now published in The EMBO Journal doi: 10.15252/embj.2020106230
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.20.106575v1
'You're Trying To Cover Your Ass': Paul And Fauci Clash Again In Heated Exchange
Nov 4, 2021 The Hill
The next chapter in the rivalry between Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dr. Fauci was written Thursday when Paul continually pressed Fauci over gain-of-function research during a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine the road ahead for the COVID-19 response, focusing on the next steps.
Gravitas: Chinese officials were buying PCR tests in May 2019
Oct 5, 2021 WION
China reported its first Wuhan virus cases in December 2019. But a study has found that the PLA, China's Centre for Disease Control & Chinese universities were buying PCR tests in Hubei in May 2019. Palki Sharma tells you about the explosive revelations.
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- October 2021 DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.27159.70564
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The Honorable Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
Dr. Collins,
We write again asking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be transparent about its relationship with EcoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth) and to provide information and documents related to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant project number R01AI110964, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”1 In 2014, NIH awarded this grant to EcoHealth, the non-profit organization that in turn funneled those funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) 2 and to additional research organizations to support risky research in China.
https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021.10.27-Letter-to-NIH.pdf
Re-opening – additional call for experts to join the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO)
1 November 2021 Call for experts
Issued on: 1 November 2021
Re-opening call for applications from 1 to 3 November 2021
WHO is re-opening the call for applications for three additional days to encourage additional applications from the fields of social science/anthropology/ethics/political science and biosafety/biosecurity.
The call will open from 1-3 November 2021, closing at 24:00CET 3 November. Applications require a Curriculum Vitae, a cover letter, and signed DOI form.
Please note applicants who have already submitted an expression of interest for the SAGO do not need to re-apply; this re-opening of applications is intended for new expressions of interest only.
WHO seeks more laboratory safety experts for pandemic origins inquiry
Application process reopened as WHO looks for 'greater diversity' in its investigations team
ByAnne Gulland, GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY DEPUTY EDITOR and Sarah Newey, GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CORRESPONDENT1 November 2021 • 5:12pm
Coronavirus Study of Bats in China Met NIH Grant Requirements, EcoHealth Says
Nonprofit is under fire for its work with Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in 2018
By Betsy McKay and Amy Dockser Marcus
Oct. 28, 2021 1:16 pm ET
Ask PolitiFact: What's going on with EcoHealth Alliance, the NIH and coronavirus research?
By Noah Y. Kim
October 28, 2021
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/28/ask-politifact-what-does-nih-letter-say-about-gain/
Is this finally proof China created Covid? Group of online sleuths fought to discover if the virus was engineered by scientists in Wuhan lab at the heart of probe into the pandemic's origins
By MATT RIDLEY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:00 EDT, 29 October 2021 | UPDATED: 17:20 EDT, 29 October 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Origins Research - Full Reference List
Goal: **This project also serves as a body of evidence for a proposed hypothesis, contained in the 'project notes.'**
https://www.researchgate.net/project/SARS-CoV-2-Origins-Research-Full-Reference-List
FBI Identified as Lone Agency to Endorse Lab-Leak Theory after 90-Day Review
By ZACHARY EVANS October 30, 2021 10:05 AM
Following a 90-day review, the FBI concluded with “moderate confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic began with a “laboratory accident,” according to an intelligence report that was declassified Friday.
While the declassified report does not name the single agency that endorsed the lab-leak theory, the New York Times has identified that agency as the FBI. The city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began, is home to several virology labs including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where bat coronaviruses were studied.
Media pressure on Wuhan lab-linked scientist grows after he was once oft-cited voice decrying lab leak theory
WaPo, WSJ editorial boards call on Peter Daszak to testify on what he knows about Wuhan Institute of Virology
https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-pressure-on-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-grows-after
Scientists Demand to See Wuhan Lab Coronavirus Data From EcoHealth Alliance
BY ED BROWNE ON 10/29/21 AT 7:20 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-demand-see-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-data-ecohealth-alliance-1643775
But US agencies say the virus, first identified in China, was not developed as a biological weapon.
“You can engineer a virus without leaving any trace. However, the answers you are looking for can only be found in the archives of the Wuhan laboratory."
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È possibile creare un virus in laboratorio senza lasciare traccia? La risposta dell'esperto
A Presa Diretta, in onda lunedì 14 settembre alle 21.20 su Rai3, parla per la prima volta in Italia il microbiologo Ralph Baric, il maggior studioso al mondo di coronavirus, tra i più grandi esperti nella costruzione di virus sintetici, autore della famosa chimera del 2015 di cui parlò il Tg Leonardo.
US agency defends funding for research into bat coronaviruses in China and says it could not have caused Covid-19
An analysis says the pathogens in question ‘could not possibly have been the source’ of the disease because they are too distantly related to the coronavirus
US National Institutes for Health faced questions over grants to a non-profit that worked with the Wuhan Institute for Virology on the research
Simone McCarthy Published: 9:30pm, 21 Oct, 2021
Explainer | Coronavirus: Did the US fund risky research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
New details about US-financed research in China adds to tensions between Washington and Beijing
US Senator Rand Paul has repeatedly accused NIAID director Anthony Fauci of lying about US financing for gain of function research
Simone McCarthy Published: 10:55pm, 15 Sep, 2021
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US Intel has released the declassified assessment on Covid-19 origins
Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (no date given)
After examining all available intelligence reporting and other information, though, the IC remains divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19. All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident.
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf
Coronavirus: US investigation leaves open possibility Covid-19 resulted from ‘laboratory-associated incident’
US government investigation largely dismisses theories suggesting that the contagion was created through genetic engineering or an attempt to make a bioweapon
Report criticises Beijing for ‘pushing its narrative that the virus originated outside China’
Robert Delaney in Washington Published: 5:33am, 30 Oct, 2021
A declassified U.S. intelligence report says that if the novel coronavirus leaked from the lab it was likely the result of an accident.
EcoHealth Alliance defends US-funded bat coronavirus research in China
Science non-profit says it complied with reporting requirements after its funder, the National Institutes of Health, claimed it did not
US lawmakers have questioned whether EcoHealth conducted risky research when it worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Simone McCarthy Published: 9:30pm, 29 Oct, 2021
US intelligence report sheds new light on Wuhan lab accident theory
Declassified report reignites debate over whether China bears responsibility for pandemic’s origins
Kiran Stacey in Washington
https://www.ft.com/content/5e20cb73-78aa-4f7d-a5e1-c548261af8c8?list=intlhomepage
Lab leak or animal transmission? US intelligence won't likely determine COVID-19 origins, report says.
Nomaan Merchant Associated PressView Comments
Scientists Demand to See Wuhan Lab Coronavirus Data From EcoHealth Alliance
BY ED BROWNE ON 10/29/21 AT 7:20 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-demand-see-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-data-ecohealth-alliance-1643775
We may never know how COVID-19 originated, say US intelligence officials
Origin of Virus May Remain Murky, U.S. Intelligence Agencies Say
A declassified report said a clearer answer would require more information from Beijing or new discoveries and reiterated divisions over natural causes vs. a lab leak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/politics/coronavirus-origin-intelligence-report.html
Where did the coronavirus come from? | COVID-19 Special
Aug 30, 2021 DW News
Where did the virus behind COVID-19 come from? It's a question that's dogged researchers since the early days of the pandemic. Most maintain it jumped from bats to humans in a Chinese market. Some claim it could have other origins – in particular, a breakout from a lab working with viruses. Getting answers hasn't been easy. China has been guarded. And scientists warn that the window to finding COVID's true origin is closing fast. The debate that has turned highly-political, at times threatening to overshadow management of the pandemic itself. Solving the puzzle is still critical. Determining the origin of Sars-Cov-2 could help outbreaks of new diseases, and stop future pandemics before they start. A new US-intelligence report also fails to settle on an origin theory. But it does give a small peek into the ongoing debate. An unclassified summary of that report says outright that it's unlikely the virus was developed as a biological weapon, or that Chinese officials even knew about the virus. Most intelligence agencies in the US still think it was a transmission that occurred outside of the lab. But the report doesn't dismiss the lab-accident theory, saying one agency concluded that account was more probable, while two other agencies said they couldn't reject the idea. The report said more evidence is needed, in particular early clinical samples of the virus. That appears unlikely to happen, and it means the debate over origin will continue.
Gravitas: What was China's Batwoman up to at the Wuhan lab?
Jun 15, 2021 WION
The lab leak theory is gaining traction. As American sleuths investigate the Wuhan Lab angle, China's Batwoman Shi Zhengli has claimed that her lab didn't engage in any risky research. But, fresh reports are challenging her claims. Palki Sharma tells you more.
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SARS-CoV2 pandemics. Chain of liability
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SARS-CoV2 pandemics. Chain of liability:
1. Zhengli Shi, WIV, CAS, Wuhan
2. Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance
3. Ralph Baric, UNC, USA, for experiments
4. Lin Fa Wang, Duke/Singapore, idem
5. Antony Fauci, NIAID, for funding the above
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https://twitter.com/angoffinet/status/1454347628729323524
VIRAL INFLECTION
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
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EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Staffers Flagged Potential Gain-Of-Function Research At Wuhan Lab In 2016, Records Reveal
ANDREW KERR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER November 03, 20213:45 PM ET
- Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that taxpayer dollars may be funding gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab, but dropped the issue after nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance downplayed the concerns, documents show.
- The National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases staffers reversed course after requesting EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak submitted a “determination” to the agency that downplayed the risks of his proposed experiments, the records show.
- “The NIH, incredibly, accepted EcoHealth’s belief that this work would not be considered gain of function, and accepted EcoHealth’s rationale for this belief,” Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright told the DCNF.
- Daszak also notified NIAID staffers in a June 27, 2016, email that he was reliant on Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli, who has known ties with the Chinese military, to notify him if their lab-created viruses exhibited enhanced replication.
- The records were obtained by the White Coat Waste Project as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and provided exclusively to the DCNF.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/03/fauci-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-gain-of-function-wuhan-covid-19/
'The Evidence Is Mounting There's Been A Cover-Up': Rand Paul Blasts Fauci Over Possible COVID-19
Oct 29, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
At a telephone town hall on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan.
‘Several big developments’ in COVID-19 origins investigation
Oct 31, 2021 Sky News Australia
Sky News host Sharri Markson says there have been “several big developments” in investigations around the origins of the COVID-19 virus. “The full details of the intelligence community's report into the origins of Covid-19 was released this weekend,” Ms Markson said. “Scott Morrison, over at the G20, has reiterated his call for an investigation into how the pandemic started. “There have been several big developments; proposals about the risky research the Wuhan Institute of Virology was intending to conduct have been made public. “And an admission from the NIH … that it was funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan.” Ms Markson discussed the issue with Gary Ruskin of the US Right to Know Group.
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Was NIH-funded work on MERS virus in China too risky? Science examines the controversy
EcoHealth Alliance defends hotly debated research that altered deadly coronavirus
- 27 OCT 2021 6:20 PM BY JOCELYN KAISER
- https://www.science.org/content/article/was-nih-funded-work-mers-virus-china-too-risky-science-examines-controversy
ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE CONDUCTED RISKY EXPERIMENTS ON MERS VIRUS IN CHINA
Documents released by the NIH contradict previous assertions by EcoHealth Alliance about its experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.
Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett October 21 2021, 10:11 a.m
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/21/virus-mers-wuhan-experiments/
Where Are the Wuhan Subpoenas?
U.S. funding for risky Chinese virus research deserves investigation.
Poll shows nearly HALF of Americans think the top Anthony Fauci lied about U.S. funding gain of function research in China as calls increase for the top US COVID expert to resign
- A new poll show 49% of American voters think Dr. Anthony Fauci lied about the U.S. funding gain of function research in China
- Another part of the survey shows 46% of American think Fauci should resign
- The figures come as pressure mounts for Fauci to leave his post as Biden's top medical adviser and National Institutes of Health infectious disease experts
- Senator Rand Paul reignited his feud with Fauci this week in accusing him of funding 'deadly' experiments on beagles
- Also said evidence showed the U.S. funded 'gain of function' research in Wuhan
- But Fauci hit back saying that the research did not involve gain-of-function work
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and ROB CRILLY, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:53 EDT, 27 October 2021 | UPDATED: 19:02 EDT, 27 October 2021
Fauci Claims Wuhan Lab Leak Theory IMPOSSIBLE After NIH CAUGHT Lying About Gain Of Function Research
Premiered Oct 25, 2021 The Hill
The shifting sands of 'gain-of-function' research.
- 27 October 2021 Amber Dance
The shifting sands of ‘gain-of-function’ research
The mystery of COVID’s origins has reignited a contentious debate about potentially risky studies and the fuzzy terminology that describes them.
Wuhan Lab Hypothesis or Animal-Human Leap? The Hunt for Covid-19’s Origins | WSJ
Jun 23, 2021
Wall Street Journal
More than a year into the pandemic, scientists are still debating Covid-19’s origins. WSJ breaks down key events in three locations in China – a seafood market, a lab and a mine – to piece together how the global health crisis might have started. Photo composite: George Downs
NIH Letter Raises Questions About Wuhan Lab Experiments Oct 25, 2021 EthanTV
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ON CNN The Lead with Jake Tapper, 10/25/2021. A new NIH Letter raises questions about Wuhan Lab Experiment, NIH says it funded an experiment in Wuhan that unexpectedly strenghtened a non cov1d 19 virus in mice. Dr. Fauci denied that any experiment is funded in Wuhan lab. the National Institute of Health, New NIH Letter About EcoHealth Reporting Failure Raises New Questions About Gain-Of-Function Funding. Alliance regarding the subject of experiments on bat cor0naviruses in Wuhan, China, raising further questions over whether U.S. government funding contributed to so-called “gain-of-function” research. In a letter to Representative James Comer, Ranking Member on the Oversight and Reform Committee, the NIH provided additional information and documents regarding NIH’s much-scrutinized grant to EcoHealth Alliance. “The limited experiment described in the final progress report provided by EcoHealth Alliance was testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat cor0naviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model,” the letter, signed by NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, states. “In this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat cor0navirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat cor0navirus.” The NIH added that “this was an unexpected result of the research,” as “sometimes occurs in science.”
Unexpected result that wasn't reported to NIH leads to questions about Wuhan lab The Lead
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says it funded an experiment in Wuhan that unexpectedly strengthened a non-Covid-19 virus in mice. CNN's Kristen Holmes has the details. Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/10/25/nih-wuhan-lab-experiments-holmes-dnt-the-lead-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. Principal Deputy Director October 20, 2021
https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/NIH-Document-Production-Cover-Letter-2021.10.20_McMorris-Rodgers.pdf
Covering up Fauci’s role in COVID leak: Devine
By Miranda DevineSeptember 8, 2021 10:23pm Updated
Powerful people are going to a lot of effort to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reputation, despite mounting evidence of his role in funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in the Chinese laboratory believed to be the most likely source of the pandemic.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/covering-up-faucis-role-in-covid-leak-devine/
The Washington Post .Opinion | Peter Daszak should testify before Congress on covid-19′s origins
WHO inspector has conflict of interest in Wuhan COVID probe: Prominent biologist
Richard Ebright says Peter Daszak has conflict of interest in WHO and Lancet investigations of Wuhan outbreak
By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer2021/02/04 12:50 TAIPEI (Taiwan News)
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4119101
Expert team formed to hunt Covid origin will be met with resistance
Two years after the pandemic began in Wuhan, the “lab leak” theory refuses to die. A team of scientists are digging, but they won’t get far.
October 27, 2021 - 1:07AM
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China's COVID Secrets (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Feb 2, 2021
FRONTLINE PBS | Official
The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded.
Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak and lessons for the world in “China’s COVID Secrets.” Directed by Jane McMullen, this 90-minute documentary reveals the gulf between what China knew and what it told the world. A coproduction with the BBC.
- 24 June 2021 Ewen Callaway
Deleted coronavirus genome sequences trigger scientific intrigue
Partial SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early outbreaks in Wuhan were removed from a US government database by the scientists who deposited them.
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What Really Happened in Wuhan
Premiered Sep 27, 2021 Sky News Australia
This Sky News Australia special investigation into the origins of COVID-19 reveals what really happened in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic. Award-winning journalist Sharri Markson spent more than a year investigating the potential leak of the virus from a top-secret laboratory in Wuhan. Ms Markson uncovered evidence of a widespread cover-up and unpacks the new theory that “patient zero” worked in the Wuhan lab. Sky News Australia anchor and Investigations Writer at The Australian, Sharri has been at the forefront of investigating the origins of COVID-19 since early in 2020 when the virus spread globally. Since that time, the precise genesis of COVID-19 has been hotly contested, with scientists, government officials, the World Health Organization, and the Chinese authorities releasing conflicting reports. In a coup for Australian television, Sharri secures the first sit-down interview for an Australian broadcast media outlet with Donald Trump since he was elected president in 2016. Sharri also speaks with a range of Chinese whistle-blowers, scientists, and high-ranking intelligence officials to bring us closer to discovering the truth of what happened in Wuhan. These include John Ratcliffe, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021, and former head of British intelligence service, Mi6, Sir Richard Dearlove.
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Covid-19: Did the pandemic start in a Wuhan lab? - BBC Newsnight
Jun 9, 2021 BBC News
More than 18 months on from the start of the pandemic, the claim Covid-19 may have leaked from a Chinese laboratory is gaining traction. Why are the origins of Covid-19 still a mystery? Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog After the virus was first detected in China, authorities linked early Covid cases to a seafood market in Wuhan, leading scientists to theorise the virus first passed to humans from animals. But in recent weeks the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory - once dismissed by many as a fringe conspiracy theory - has been gaining traction. Now, US President Joe Biden has announced an urgent investigation that will look into the theory as a possible origin of the disease. So what do we know about the competing theories - and why does the debate matter?
Virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan Claims Coronavirus Lab 'Cover-Up' Made Her Flee China | Loose Women
Sep 11, 2020 Loose Women
Dr. Li-Meng Yan is a scientist who was working at the Hong Kong School of Public Health when she turned whistleblower on the Chinese Government, after she alleged they knew about the spread of the coronavirus before publicly acknowledging the outbreak. As a result, Dr Yan claims she had to flee to the US for her own safety and is now determined to spread her findings to the world. She joined the Loose Women from a secret location to tell us why she felt compelled to speak out, even if it meant putting her life on the line. The Chinese National Health Commission, World Health Organisation and University Of Hong Kong dispute her claims. From series 24, broadcast on 11/09/20
Chinese virologist claims COVID-19 was made in Wuhan lab; offers scientific proof
WION Web Team New Delhi, Delhi, India Published: Sep 13, 2020, 10:40 AM(IST)
https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2021/02/12 › china-...Feb 12, 2021 — They went viral anyway. The spread of the unverified assertions by Chinese scholar Li-Meng Yan, widely dismissed as “flawed,” show how ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/12/china-covid-misinformation-li-meng-yan/
‘Beyond doubt’ there was an ‘incident’ at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Sep 20, 2021 Sky News Australia
Sky News host Sharri Markson says there is so much evidence that it is “beyond doubt” there was an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Ms Markson spent over a year investigating the possibility COVID-19 was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Her 'What Really Happened in Wuhan' documentary on Sky News Australia uncovered evidence a leak from the lab first occurred in September, 2019. “I’ve looked at it as two key parts to investigate,” she told Sky News host Paul Murray. “One, you speak to the scientists about the unusual features of the virus itself. “And then the other part is, what was happening in Wuhan? What was the Wuhan Institute of Virology doing at that time? “There’s just so much evidence that we’ve been able to uncover over the past few months as part of this investigation that it really is beyond doubt there was an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Was COVID-19 made inside a Chinese lab? | Under Investigation
Apr 14, 2021 60 Minutes Australia
The world was told the Coronavirus leaped from animals to humans at a market in China – but many scientists now fear it leaked from a lab. Experts reveal the new research techniques that put us all at risk.
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Sen. Rand Paul on the NIH gain-of-function funding to the Wuhan lab | On Balance With Leland Vittert
Oct 21, 2021
Fauci should be fired after NIH admits funding gain-of-function research, Rand Paul says
Paul says gain-of-function research should be investigated by Congress
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-should-be-fired-after-nih-admits-funding-gain-of-function-research-rand-paul-says
Evol Bioinform Online. 2021; 17: 11769343211052013.Published online 2021 Oct 8. doi: 10.1177/11769343211052013PMCID: PMC8504689PMID: 34646060
Compelling Evidence Suggesting the Codon Usage of SARS-CoV-2 Adapts to Human After the Split From RaTG13
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8504689/
N.I.H. Letter on EcoHealth Alliance’s Late Study Filings
Oct. 21, 2021 A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/21/science/nih-eco-health-alliance-letter.html
Coronavirus: NIH admits to US funding of gain-of-function research in Wuhan lab
WION Web TeamNew Delhi Published: Oct 22, 2021, 05:13 PM(IST)
Bat Research Group Failed to Submit Virus Studies Promptly, N.I.H. Says
The federal agency told a G.O.P. House member that it had notified EcoHealth Alliance, a group criticized for its U.S.-funded work with Wuhan scientists, to file data within five days.
By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller Oct. 21, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/science/bats-covid-lab-leak-nih.html
BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 11 June 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.687783
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Degradation of Junctional Proteins That Maintain Endothelial Barrier Integrity
Somasundaram Raghavan, Divya Borsandra Kenchappa and M. Dennis Leo*
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.687783/full
One person who might know what really happened in Wuhan
The government of China, Ms. Shi and Mr. Daszak all insist the laboratory could not be the source of the pandemic strain.
Wait, How Many Coincidences Does the Natural Spillover Theory Require?
By JIM GERAGHTY
October 25, 2021 8:44 AM
https://archive.md/28jQa
How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus
Exciting new research should make it easier to hold rogue bioengineers accountable.
By Kelsey Piper Oct 24, 2021, 9:00am EDT
Oct 11, 2021,07:30am EDT
Leave The Bats Alone: It’s Long Past Time To Halt Gain-Of-Function Research On Deadly Viruses
Steven SalzbergContributor Healthcare
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Opinion | To prevent the next pandemic, we must find the source of covid-19. China’s stonewalling...
A credible investigation must ensue.
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. Principal Deputy Director October 20, 2021
GOP calls for Fauci investigation, resignation mount after NIH admits funding gain-of-function research
Caitlin McFall Fri, October 22, 2021, 5:23 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-calls-fauci-investigation-resignation-212317792.html
NIH acknowledges US funded gain-of-function at Wuhan lab, despite Fauci’s denials
Fauci repeatedly denied that US funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan
By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News
NIH grantee in Wuhan faces questions, deadline for more information on research
Congress focuses on controversial ‘gain of function’ experiments on viruses
By Emily Kopp Posted October 22, 2021 at 6:17pm
Bat Research Group Failed to Submit Virus Studies Promptly, N.I.H. Says
The federal agency told a G.O.P. House member that it had notified EcoHealth Alliance, a group criticized for its U.S.-funded work with Wuhan scientists, to file data within five days.
By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller Oct. 21, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/science/bats-covid-lab-leak-nih.html
N.I.H. Letter on EcoHealth Alliance’s Late Study Filings
Oct. 21, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/21/science/nih-eco-health-alliance-letter.html
Rand Paul launches fresh attack on Fauci after NIH admits it DID fund gain of function research: Senator says DOJ is too busy going 'after moms complaining about what they teach in school' to investigate
- Senator Rand Paul said he felt validated after the NIH admitted it funding gain of function test at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- Paul had repeatedly demanded the truth from Fauci and faced backlash for it
- In a new letter, NIH's principal deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak says lab rats were infected with the modified bat virus in the Wuhan lab in China
- While never using the term, Tabak essentially confirms that gain of function research, took place despite consistent denials from Dr. Fauci
- In May, Fauci testified that the NIH 'has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology'
- The letter shifts the blame to US non profit EcoHealth Alliance for not being transparent about the kind of research they were doing
By RONNY REYES and GINA MARTINEZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:06 EDT, 22 October 2021 | UPDATED: 07:19 EDT, 22 October 2021
VIROLOGY: Dangerous gain of function research has gotten out of hand and needs to be reined in
- VON SIMON WAIN-HOBSON
- -AKTUALISIERT AM 22.10.2021-16:22
'Bombshell' NIH letter on bat coronavirus research reveals Fauci's big lie, professor says
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter | | October 24, 2021 02:45 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/21/nih-ecohealth-alliance-coronavirus/
China Purchased Mass Quantity of PCR Tests Months Before First Reported Case of COVID
BY NATALIE COLAROSSI ON 10/4/21 AT 7:07 PM EDT
China's PCR test kit orders spiked months before it raised COVID-19 alarm, says report
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/05/asia-pacific/china-pcr-equipment/
China PCR test orders soared before first confirmed COVID case
Report on government contracts show surges in Wuhan-area purchases from May 2019
MASAYA KATO, Nikkei staff writer October 5, 2021 04:00 JST Updated on October 5, 2021 11:49 JST
TOKYO -- Purchases of PCR tests in China's Hubei Province surged months before the first official reports of a novel coronavirus case there, according to a report by Australia-based cybersecurity company Internet 2.0.
By Richard Muller and Steven Quay | Commentary Oct. 5, 2021 6:19 pm ET
Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina has engineered coronaviruses to study their threat to humans. UNC RESEARCH
“We never created a supervirus.” Ralph Baric explains gain-of-function research.
The work has helped in the development of mRNA coronavirus vaccines and the first approved covid drug.
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- Rowan Jacobsen archive page July 26, 2021
An Engineered Origin for the SARS-CoV2 Genome.
Conclusion
It is inaccurate to say that SARS-CoV2 could not be engineered. Furthermore, based solely on this genomic data set, which includes genomes of 40 bat coronavirus relatives close to both the SARS-CoV1 and SARS-CoV2 genomes, the most likely explanation for genetic diversity in this novel pandemic virus is an engineered workflow like the one proposed herein and not natural evolution.
https://medium.com/@SherlockGNomes/an-engineered-origin-for-the-sars-cov2-genome-47914a6919ad
Britain MUST lead the way in banning disturbing lab research that could have created Covid-19, says virologist who discovered the genetic blueprint for Aids SIMON WAIN-HOBSON
By SIMON WAIN-HOBSON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 17:09 EDT, 9 October 2021 | UPDATED: 17:09 EDT, 9 October 2021
New Analysis of DEFUSE Proposal
Analysis of the DARPA DEFUSE Proposal by Professor Simon Wain-Hobson
https://drasticresearch.org/2021/10/06/new-analysis-of-defuse-proposal/
August 14, 2021Journal article Open Access
Wrong Side of the Yangtze River: Did a Map Mistake by the World Health Organization Contribute to Premature Conclusions About SARS2's Origin?
Chang, Whatsin Wu
https://zenodo.org/record/5202258#.YV2JayQ3uEf
Origins of SARS-CoV-2
- OCTOBER 1, 2021
NOTE: This post was originally published on April 16, 2020 and has been updated regularly.
https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
SARS-CoV-2 Origins Research Reference Project - 20211014
- July 2021 DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.12600.47367/2
- Project: SARS-CoV-2 Origins Research - Full Reference List
Authors: Charles Rixey Southern Methodist University
The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory
Did the virus spring from nature or from human error?
October 12, 2021
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory
WORLD VIEW 12 October 2021
COVID lesson: trust the public with hard truths
When governments assume that people will panic, that exacerbates the pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2
China to test thousands of Wuhan blood samples in Covid-19 probe
Exclusive by Nick Paton Walsh, International Security Editor
Updated 11:15 PM ET, Tue October 12, 2021 London (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/asia/china-wuhan-blood-samples-covid-19-probe-intl-cmd/index.html
Oct 11, 2021,07:30am EDT
Leave The Bats Alone: It’s Long Past Time To Halt Gain-Of-Function Research On Deadly Viruses
Steven Salzberg Contributor Healthcare
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | To prevent the next pandemic, we must find the source of covid-19. China’s stonewalling...
A credible investigation must ensue.
The origin of COVID-19: Evidence piles up, but the jury’s still out
By Matt Field | October 11, 2021
https://thebulletin.org/2021/10/the-origin-of-covid-19-evidence-piles-up-but-the-jurys-still-out
Science turns nasty in Covid-19 origins argument on Twitter
It was already a battleground for those in the ‘zoonati’ camp versus the lab-leak proponents – from conspiracy theorists to virologists
Then came documents from a purported whistle-blower that have started another frenzy over bat virus research in China
Simone McCarthyand Eduardo Baptista Published: 6:00am, 15 Oct, 2021
China passes first biosecurity law in wake of Covid-19 pandemic
Legislation includes measures that range from protection of biodiversity to measures to control biological laboratories and prevent terrorist attacks
Observers say the measures were rushed through following the emergence of the coronavirus late last year
Guo Rui in Guangzhou Published: 9:00am, 20 Oct, 2020
Xi warns Chinese labs handling deadly pathogens will face closer scrutiny
- The Chinese president made the comments at the first-ever Politburo study session dedicated to biosecurity, which he identified as a national security issue
- China has repeatedly denied that Covid-19 was the result of a laboratory accident and the topic has become yet another flashpoint with the United States
China passes first biosecurity law in wake of Covid-19 pandemic Topic | China science
China says Covid-19 hunt is just US pulling ‘old tricks’ last seen in Iraq
The US has ‘threatened and lured’ the WHO, People’s Daily claims, casting doubts over the impartiality of a new advisory panel set to probe novel pathogens.
Unanswered questions about COVID's origins
China PCR Purchases Spiked in Months Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says
#Gravitas #AnthonyFauci #WuhanVirus
Gravitas: Did Dr. Fauci fund Wuhan Virus research?
May 12, 2021 WION
Did Joe Biden's pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci fund Wuhan Virus research? Republican Senator Rand Paul says Fauci could be personally involved in the origin of the virus. Palki Sharma separates facts from fiction.
'Bombshell' NIH letter on bat coronavirus research reveals Fauci's big lie, professor says
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter | | October 24, 2021 02:45 AM
N.I.H. Letter on EcoHealth Alliance’s Late Study Filings
Oct. 21, 2021 A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/21/science/nih-eco-health-alliance-letter.html
Bat Research Group Failed to Submit Virus Studies Promptly, N.I.H. Says
The federal agency told a G.O.P. House member that it had notified EcoHealth Alliance, a group criticized for its U.S.-funded work with Wuhan scientists, to file data within five days.
By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller Oct. 21, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/science/bats-covid-lab-leak-nih.html
BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 11 June 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.687783
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Degradation of Junctional Proteins That Maintain Endothelial Barrier Integrity
Somasundaram Raghavan, Divya Borsandra Kenchappa and M. Dennis Leo*
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.687783/full
WHO Seeks to Revive Stalled Inquiry Into Origins of Covid-19 With New Team
U.N. body assembles new group of scientists to restart the probe, but could face resistance from China
Medical personnel at a hospital in Wuhan, China, in February 2020. By Drew Hinshaw and Betsy McKay Sept. 26, 2021 8:00 am ET
How Chinese red tape stopped US scientists getting early virus access
Emails show Galveston National Laboratory scientists urged counterparts to share the virus in early 2020 to speed up vital research but hit a bureaucratic wall.
Origine du Covid-19 : Defuse, le document secret qui accable les labos
Un projet de 2018 atteste que l’Institut de virologie de Wuhan et ses collaborateurs américains prévoyaient de créer un virus semblable au Sars-CoV-2.
De notre correspondant à Hongkong, Jérémy André
https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/origine-du-covid-19-defuse-le-document-secret-qui-accable-les-labos-24-09-2021-2444607_24.php
The WHO is restarting its investigation into whether COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, report says
Bill Bostock Sep 27, 2021, 5:39 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-restarts-investigation-coronavirus-origins-china-report-2021-9
Eli Lilly CEO: Drug pricing bill would 'fundamentally restructure' company
Oct 4, 2021 CNBC Television
Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks joins CNBC's Meg Tirrell to discuss how a pending drug pricing bill would "fundamentally restructure" the company's business model.
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“The DARPA DEFUSE Project”
How EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology Collaborated on a Dangerous Bat Coronavirus Project
“The DARPA DEFUSE Project”
DRASTIC was recently made aware of documents provided by a whistleblower, which show that EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) in concert wIth the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) attempted to carry out advanced and dangerous human pathogenicity Bat Coronavirus research that would clearly qualify as Gain of Function (GoF), in a grant proposal submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018.
Document 1. A brief DRASTIC Analysis of the EcoHealth Alliance DEFUSE Proposal
DEFUSE PROJECT DRASTIC ANALYSISDownload
Document 2: The Reasons why the DEFUSE Proposal was Rejected by DARPA
DEFUSE PROJECT REJECTION BY DARPADownload
Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and “batified” mice.
https://drasticresearch.org/2021/09/20/1583/
Project DEFUSE DARPA - PREEMPT (HR001118S0017)
https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/defuse-project-drastic-analysis-1.pdf
LEAKED GRANT PROPOSAL DETAILS HIGH-RISK CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.
Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett September 23 2021, 2:16 p.m.
A GRANT PROPOSAL written by the U.S.-based nonprofit the EcoHealth Alliance and submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, provides evidence that the group was working — or at least planning to work — on several risky areas of research. Among the scientific tasks the group described in its proposal, which was rejected by DARPA, was the creation of full-length infectious clones of bat SARS-related coronaviruses and the insertion of a tiny part of the virus known as a “proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses. Of particular interest was a type of cleavage site able to interact with furin, an enzyme expressed in human cells.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-proposal
BIOTECHNOLOGY, COMMENTARIES, HEALTH AUGUST 2, 2021
Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD
Wuhan Lab Wanted to Genetically Enhance Bat Viruses to Study Human Risks, Documents Show
BY MEGHAN ROOS ON 9/22/21 AT 10:08 PM EDT
- How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media
- DARPA Denies Funding Wuhan Institute of Virology Amid Alleged Document Leak
- Fauci 'Untruthful' to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research, Documents Suggest
- What the Intelligence Community's Report Said About COVID Lab Leak Theory
POLL: 75% Of Americans Want Non-Profit That Funded Wuhan Lab Subpoenaed By Congress
DYLAN HOUSMAN HEALTHCARE REPORTER September 22, 20211:54 PM ET
The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier
A new leaked document is stirring up another frenzy over the pandemic’s origins. What does it really tell us?
By Daniel Engber and Adam Federman SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/lab-leak-pandemic-origins-even-messier/620209/
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_HDTRA11710064_9761
SARS-CoV-2 spike and its adaptable furin cleavage site
Open Access Published:August 06, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00174-9
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00174-9/fulltext
U.S.-funded research at suspect Chinese lab raises new COVID-19 origin questions
Newly revealed documents reveal extent, subject matter of virus grants
By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 7, 2021
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/7/us-funded-wuhan-lab-research-raises-covid-origin-q/
Where the Covid Origin Inquiry Goes Now
Congress can focus on U.S. funding for gain-of-function research.
By The Editorial Board Sept. 13, 2021 6:57 pm ET
When did the US learn about the Wuhan outbreak?
- September 2021 DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.19289.24164/1
- Projects: Pandemics DRASTIC
Authors: Gilles Demaneuf Engineer and Data Scientist
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354462471_notes_When_did_the_US_learn_about_the_Wuhan_outbreak
DANIELA HERNANDEZ Episode 3 September 16, 2021UP NEXT0:20 / 5:220:58
Gain of Function: The Search for Covid’s Origins Sparks Renewed Debate
Question of Covid's origins resurfaces debate over the research method
By Wall Street Journal Sep 16, 2021 8:00 am
Questions over the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic have resurfaced a debate over a controversial type of research that can involve altering the genetic information of viruses. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains gain of function. Illustration: Sebastian Vega
Daniela Hernandez
Daniela Hernandez extends her health and science reporting to cover a variety of relevant subjects from Covid-19 to climate change.
In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.
After seeing a risky lab, they wrote a cable warning to Washington. But it was ignored.
By JOSH ROGIN 03/08/2021 04:30 AM EST
By Eva Dou, Pei Lin Wu, Quentin Aries and Rebecca Tan
NEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH AT CHINESE LAB
More than 900 pages of materials related to US.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept.
Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl September 6 2021, 9:06 p.m
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/
DRASTIC RESEARCH
Project DEFUSE DARPA - PREEMPT (HR001118S0017)
https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/defuse-project-drastic-analysis-1.pdf
- 01 December 2017
Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur
Chinese scientists find all the genetic building blocks of SARS in a single population of horseshoe bats.
Odds Increase that SARS CoV-2 was Lab Made
Premiered Sep 21, 2021 Peak Prosperity
Do you believe you deserve to know if the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has upended the world, and your life, for the past 20 months was made by humans? I know I deserve to know that, as does everyone. Well, the field of that battle just got a little bit clearer. A leaked document shows that in 2018 the EcoHealth alliance had pitched DARPA to fund a huge amount of work on bat coronaviruses including mixing and matching the most dangerous elements of them (so-called chimeric virus assemblies) as well as identifying and inserting the best human furin cleavage sites in them to increase pathogenicity. All of this work was to be done in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology up to and including playing a significant portion of “the bat lady’s” salary. DARPA declined to fund this work over obvious concerns. No matter, this same work was funded by the NIH, which also, for unknown reasons, by-passed the usual institutional oversight governing such dangerous work. So far the media is stone silent on this matter. We hope this video is allowed to stand on YouTube, as it is presenting facts and drawing some very obvious conclusions. However, it will also be embarrassing to certain layers of bureaucracy, so we all know the risks here. The emperor would very much like to continue believing he’s wearing a fine set of garments. We are in the final moments of that old narrative being contained. People are waking up.
Part I Links: DRASTIC Files https://drasticresearch.files.wordpre...EcoHealth Alliance Website https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/The Seeker (DRASTIC member) https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/stat...Media poo-pooing lab leak theory in 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/bu... https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/media/... https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925...LANCET TASK FORCE https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...Baric-Shi paper 2015 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...No Close Relatives of SARS2 with cleavage sites http://chinaxiv.org/user/download.htm...
LEAKED GRANT PROPOSAL DETAILS HIGH-RISK CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-proposal
The office that oversees US spy agencies could not establish how the coronavirus pandemic began.
The US intelligence community has been unable to determine the origins of Covid-19, and is split on whether it leaked from a lab or developed in nature, according to a new report.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58361211
US report on coronavirus origins 'inconclusive'
August 23, 20213:30 PM EDT United States
U.S. review of COVID origins due Tuesday, but public must wait for unclassified version
Reuters WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters)
- 01 December 2017
Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur
Chinese scientists find all the genetic building blocks of SARS in a single population of horseshoe bats.
China vs the WHO: where to look next in the hunt for Covid-19’s origins
Beijing says the search must be expanded to countries and regions around the world
The World Health Organization’s proposal includes investigation of the lab leak theory
Simone McCarthy Published: 1:57pm, 26 Jul, 2021
Opinion: Anthony Fauci, Rand Paul and Wuhan
By The Editorial Board July 25, 2021 4:46 pm ET
August 2, 202112:37 AM EDT United States WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters)
Republican report says coronavirus leaked from China lab; scientists still probing origins
Reuters
Republican investigation reportedly ‘proves’ COVID leaked from Wuhan lab
By Lee Brown August 2, 2021 | 9:10am | Updated
Exclusive: New York Times quashed COVID origins inquiry
The Times, according to two well-placed sources, refused to investigate the biggest story of our time
August 2, 2021 | 2:15 pm Written by: Dominic Green
BIOTECHNOLOGY, COMMENTARIES, HEALTH AUGUST 2, 2021
Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD
Too Many Coincidences: The Likelihood That a Lab Leak in Wuhan Led to the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham August 3, 2021
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,112, August 3, 2021
Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt
By Katie Bo Williams, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Updated 9:02 AM EDT, Thu August 5, 2021
Washington CNN —
US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus – as soon as they can decipher it.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/covid-origins-genetic-data-wuhan-lab/index.html
Opinion: Does the U.S. Want the Lab-Leak Truth?
WSJ Opinion: Groupthink Prevents Coronavirus 'Lab Leak' Origin Probe
Coronavirus lab leak ‘smoking gun unlikely to be found’ in US genetic data trove
Sequence cannot tell where virus came from and could be counterproductive, HKU molecular biologist says
But US scientist says unpublished information on pre-2020 work on Sars-related bat coronaviruses could be highly important
Mimi Lau Published: 8:30pm, 7 Aug, 2021
The Seeker@TheSeeker268·1h "Ben Embarek’s Chinese counterpart eventually agreed to discuss the lab-leak theory in the report “on the condition we didn’t recommend any specific studies to further that hypothesis.”" Oh, so it wasn't science after all, but a transactional business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-embarek/
COVID BOMBSHELL
Covid patient zero may have been infected by bat while working in Wuhan leak lab, admits WHO chief
- Henry Holloway 11:41, 12 Aug 2021 Updated: 13:23, 12 Aug 2021
COVID'S long sought after patient zero may have been infected by a BAT while working in the Wuhan lab, a WHO investigator has said in a bombshell admission.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15849485/covid-patient-zero-wuhan-leak-who/
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology is suspected by some to have leaked Covid in a lab accident
UK professor who helped beat AIDS virus says COVID-19 HAS to be man-made - COMMENT
EVER since Covid appeared in late 2019, it has been assumed that the virus was yet another in a long line of viruses to jump from an animal host to humans.
By PROF ANGUS DALGLEISH PUBLISHED: 14:29, Thu, Aug 12, 2021 | UPDATED: 17:54, Thu, Aug 12, 2021
Time to get serious about uncovering the pandemic's origins
BY JAMIE METZL, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 08/17/21 12:15 PM EDT
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
JUST IN: Fiery Clash Between Rand Paul And Dr. Fauci, Each Accuses The Other Of Lying
Jul 20, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
Moments ago at the Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dr. Anthony Fauci engaged in a fiery clash in which both men accused the other of lying.
Anthony S. Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul, who have a history of heated exchanges, accused each other of lying about U.S. funding of the Wuhan lab in a hearing Tuesday.
Anthony Fauci, Rand Paul and Wuhan
Americans who dismissed the lab-leak theory have a conflict of interest.
By The Editorial Board July 25, 2021 4:46 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/anthony-fauci-rand-paul-wuhan-lab-leak-11627240720
Now the world's most famous medical journal the Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a study showing human transmission of Covid-19 that was suppressed by China
- Evidence Covid could be spread by symptom-less carriers 'was also suppressed'
- Claims made in a new book by Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Welcome Trust
- Lancet said all papers of major public health importance were shared as soon as possible while ensuring rigorous peer-review
By IAN BIRELL FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 17:06 EDT, 24 July 2021 | UPDATED: 20:22 EDT, 24 July 2021
The Chinese government cannot veto an inquiry into Covid-19’s origins – our future safety depends on it
Battle lines are being drawn for a struggle fast turning into a new Cold War frontline
By Ian Birrelli columnist
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/china-lab-leak-inquiy-government-veto-safety-1120459
WHO Chief Calls on China to Cooperate With Covid Investigation
Jul 15, 2021 Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Jul.15 -- The World Health Organization’s director general called on China to cooperate in a second phase of studying the origins of the coronavirus as the pandemic rages on around the world. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke at a media briefing Thursday.
China Reviewing WHO Plan for Next Phase of Virus-Origin Probe
WHO clarifies details of early covid patients in Wuhan after errors in virus reportA spokesman said the findings will be updated on account of “editing errors,” but that the agency can’t resolve a discrepancy in the location of the earliest official case.washingtonpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/covid-wuhan-outbreak-who/2021/07/15/51e7e8a6-e2c6-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html
Covid Is Especially Risky for People With H.I.V., Large Study Finds
Did COVID-19 Leak From a Lab? It's Complicated
The virus’s origins are still unclear, and credible voices are calling for a serious discussion of a lab leak.
By Eric James Beyer Jul 20, 2021
https://interestingengineering.com/did-covid-19-leak-from-a-lab-its-complicated
Crashing In - BiotecWARS
Sep. 19, 2021 7:35 PM ET ABBV, AMGN, BGNE, BMY, GILD, JNJ, MRK
- I should be more upbeat as COVID-19 subsides in America and elsewhere, but I am not.
- throughout the summer of 2021 I continued to add positions in (ABBV) (AMGN) (GILD) (MRK) (JNJ) (BMY) whenever I can with quarterly dividends.
- “Among the richest men in China, few have good endings.” - Jack Ma.
- Politicos/Central Governments now dominate the business backdrop in many countries,.
- https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5641043-crashing-in-biotecwars
Covid-19 patient zero may have worked at a lab in Wuhan, China
Aug 12, 2021 CNBC Television
A World Health Organization expert says in a documentary that patient zero for Covid-19 may have worked at a lab in Wuhan, China. Jamie Metzl, the Atlantic Council and a W.H.O. advisor
COVID CUTTHROATS
China ‘could EXECUTE Wuhan scientists and then blame them for Covid leak in desperate bid to save face’
- Imogen Braddick
- 10:03, 1 Jul 2021 Updated: 10:47, 1 Jul 2021
- CHINESE scientists behind a possible lab leak in Wuhan could be hunted down and executed by the Communist regime as pressure mounts over Covid's origin, an expert has warned.
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15427448/china-execute-scientists-save-face-pressure-wuhan-lab-leak/
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Wuhan Lab Researcher Linked To Military Scientists, NBC News Finds
Jun 29, 2021 NBC News
In January, a Trump administration fact sheet accused China of “secret military activity” at a lab in Wuhan. Dr. Shi Zhengli, a leading researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, says it is a civilian institution, but NBC News has found evidence of her connections with military
1) COVID-19: A DISEASE OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL ERROR - EPIGENETICS COVID-19 is without question a multi-systemic syndrome like no other with vast variance and involvement. I believe we are viewing the disease incorrectly. COVID-19 is unique. Instead of the DISEASE causing PATHOLOGY,
https://twitter.com/Parsifaler/status/1411505388634136577
Clues to Covid-19’s Origins Include Anonymous Skin Sample in Italy
Case of Milan woman sickened in late 2019 has intrigued global researchers
By Eric Sylvers , Drew Hinshaw and Betsy McKay July 12, 2021 9:00 am ET MILAN
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-origin-italy-11626028854
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab
Opinion on the lab leak scenario, once seen as a fringe theory, has shifted dramatically.
07/09/2021 06:00 AM EDT
Opinion by the Editorial Board
The covid-19 lab leak hypothesis: did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign?
BMJ 2021; 374 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1656 (Published 08 July 2021)Cite this as: BMJ 2021;374:n1656
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656
Bat Scientists Warn That the World May Never Know Covid-19 Origins
Researchers believe bats harbor deadly viruses that cause SARS, Ebola and other diseases, but proving it can be frustratingly inconclusive
By Amy Dockser Marcus July 11, 2021 1:55 pm ET
A response to “The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review”
Alina Chan By Alina Chan
The author of this article is co-authoring a book, VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, with Matt Ridley. It will be published in late 2021 by HarperCollins. The book explores both natural and lab Covid-19 origin hypotheses.
Intriguing. The graph for Rs4874 isolate corresponds with WIV1 backbone with 4874 spike. A case of false reporting or scientific misconduct?
Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus
- Ben Hu ,
- Lei-Ping Zeng ,
- Xing-Lou Yang ,
- Xing-Yi Ge,
- Wei Zhang,
- Bei Li,
- Jia-Zheng Xie,
- Xu-Rui Shen,
- Yun-Zhi Zhang,
- Ning Wang,
- Dong-Sheng Luo,
- Xiao-Shuang Zheng,
- Mei-Niang Wang,
- [ ... ],
- Zheng-Li Shi
- [ view all ]
- Published: November 30, 2017
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
GOP Medical Witnesses: COVID-19 'Exactly What You'd Expect If You'd Gone Through Gain-Of-Function'
Jun 29, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
At today's GOP House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing, GOP-called witnesses Dr. Steven Quay and Dr. Richard Muller said that within the COVID-19 virus were indications that it was created through gain-of-function research.
July 3, 2021Journal article Open Access
CONTAMINATION OR VACCINE RESEARCH? RNA Sequencing data of early COVID-19 patient samples show abnormal presence of vectorized H7N9 hemagglutinin segment
Quay, Steven, C.; Rahalkar, Monali, C.; Jones, Adrian; Bahulikar, Rahul, A.
https://zenodo.org/record/5066744#.YOAYfq8zYjd
Abstract
A re-analysis of the meta-transcriptome data (SRR11092059-63) generated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) from bronchial-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) specimens of five early SARS-CoV-2 patients (WIV02,04,05,06,07-2)2 was done. The data of these five patients had been obtained by the WIV on two different NGS machines: MiSeq and MGISEQ-2000RS (HiSeq 3000 equivalent). The MGISEQ-2000RS gave 10X more data than the MiSeq machine (5.6-12 Gb) and therefore, it was possible to see more detail. Surprisingly, all the five samples analysed by MGISEQ-2000RS machine showed the presence of a sequence H7N9 ‘Hemagglutinin A (HA) segment 4’ gene in a relatively high proportion, and in one case six- times the abundance of the SARS-CoV-2 sequences. The presence of non-SARS-CoV-2, including these influenza A genes, has been reported earlier and this data was also used in our current study for comparison and analysis The surprising finding was the HA segment 4 gene cloned in an expression vector, pVAX1, confirming previously identified vector sequences.3,4 A WIV publication documented that DNA vaccines containing H7N9 HA genes were being developed and tested in mice in WIV at the same time as the outbreak (2019-2020). In addition, all five samples showed a relatively high proportion of Spodoptera frugiperda rhabdovirus (13-83% of SARS-CoV-2 reads). Additionally, the samples also showed the presence of other low-abundance, high homology (LAHH) sequences, mostly of viral origin and not expected to be associated with human BALF specimens. These LAHH sequences could be contaminants, and we identified these viruses as part of previously published research at the WIV, providing a genomic record of prior work. The ability to identify previously performed research in the meta-transcriptome raw data reads from a laboratory provides a new forensic tool. The presence of cloned H7N9 HA gene segment in the transcriptome data of the early five patients processed in WIV, should be treated as an important forensic clue and warrants a full investigation. An understanding of the relationship, if any, between the presence of the vectorized H7N9 and SARS-CoV-2 in the early COVID-19 patients’ samples should be a focus of further inquiry.
The WHO's Chief Says It Was Premature To Rule Out A Lab Leak As The Pandemic's Origin
July 15, 202111:41 AM ET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016436749/who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros
Nature or lab leak? Why tracing the origin of Covid-19 matters
Jun 18, 2021 South China Morning Post
The virus that causes Covid-19 has so far killed more than 3.5 million people worldwide, and in recent weeks, the debate over where it originated has grown ever more heated. Dr Wanda Markotter, head of the Centre for Viral Zoonoses at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, has extensive experience monitoring bat viruses. The virologist explains why finding the source of Covid-19 – whether by natural origin or through a lab leak – matters. In May, Dr Markotter was appointed co-chair of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel, which advises four international organisations including the World Health Organization, on how to improve our understanding of the emergence and spread of diseases that can potentially trigger pandemics.
Chinese Covid-19 genetic data in US archive was removed in June 2020, virologist finds
The sequences, now recovered, add to the limited genetic data available from the early phase of the pandemic Data had been removed at the request of the scientist who submitted it, but details of the sequences are included in a published paper by Wuhan team
Simone McCarthy Published: 10:24pm, 24 Jun, 2021 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3138649/chinese-covid-19-genetic-data-us-archive-was-removed-june-2020?module=lead_hero_story_2&pgtype=homepage
A computational biologist posted his findings on a server where papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal have been landing by the thousands.By Joel Achenbach, Ben Guarino and Yasmeen Abutaleb
China confirms unauthorised labs were told to destroy early coronavirus samples
National health authority says this was done for biosafety reasons and to ‘prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Beijing declined to provide samples and destroyed them at the start of the outbreak
Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 8:04pm, 15 May, 2020
U.S. Confirms Removal of Wuhan Virus Sequences From Database
The Last–And Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
Newsletter: China rewrites the history of COVID-19
Coronavirus Today: China rewrites the history of COVID-19
By KAREN KAPLAN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR JUNE 25, 2021 3:45 PM PT
What exactly happened in Wuhan?
Virus origin hunter exposes genetic experiments in Wuhan with American support
By @TheSeeker268 July 1, 2021 18:39 IST
https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2021/07/01/what-exactly-happened-in-wuhan.html
Lab leak theory, once 'political dynamite,' gains credibility in new study
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Fri, 2 July 2021, 4:13 pm
U.S. intelligence community looks into origins of COVID-19, Wuhan lab under new scrutiny
Jun 30, 2021 CBS This Morning
As the U.S. Intelligence community continues its review into the origins of COVID-19, new questions are being asked about whether the virus could have originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge looks at why the lab is under fresh scrutiny.
COVID-19 Wuhan lab-leak hypotheses are "absolutely legitimate" and "plausible," expert says
JUNE 30, 2021 / 10:33 AM / CBS NEWS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/
Origins of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are often poorly explored in leading publications
John Wenzel First published: 30 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12425Citations: 8SECTIONSPDF
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cla.12425
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- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- I have increased my positions in (GILD) the most since December 2020.
- RaBtCov/4991 = RaTG13 + GoF = SARS CoV2.
- I now see this virus in much the same way as I did back in April 2020-but the deaths and damage is far greater than I had ever thought.
- "you might be in the midst of a battle But our God's never left you"
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GOP Senator Uses Scientific Model Props To Promote His Belief Covid-19 Was Created In Wuhan Lab
Jun 27, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) speaks about why he believes the Covid-19 virus was created in a lab on the Senate floor
'Suddenly You Can't Find Him': Jim Jordan Criticizes Fauci For Skipping GOP COVID-19 Origin Hearing
Jun 29, 2021 Forbes Breaking News
At today's GOP House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took aim at NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci for not appearing before the Republican-led hearing.
D.R.A.S.T.I.C. (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19)
COVID-19 origin: How DRASTIC, a group of internet sleuths, compelled world to relook Wuhan lab leak theory
It is due to the work by DRASTIC that there is more insight into research that the secretive Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China was doing
FP Staff June 08, 2021 14:17:43 IST
What IS DRASTIC?
Short for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19, it is an informal amalgam of experts and lay researchers from across the world who painstakingly pieced together various strands of data and information to understand how the 2019 SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) or the novel coronavirus, emerged and raced through the globe.
The website that this group has now launched says that the team comprises more than 20 people from across the world. Among them are a few from India. Many of these amateur sleuths have chosen to remain anonymous, like the one who describes himself as the 'Seeker'. In fact, the website adds that "many DRASTIC members, especially “China experts” and scientists prefer to operate anonymously due to privacy, security and professional concerns, and are thus not listed on this page."
The secrecy may help to explain why efforts to confirm or disprove the lab-leak theory of the pandemic’s origins have made little progress, despite President Biden’s order that U.S. intelligence agencies “redouble their efforts” to determine the source of the virus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/opinion/lab-leak-covid.html
A computational biologist posted his findings on a server where papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal have been landing by the thousands.By Joel Achenbach, Ben Guarino and Yasmeen Abutaleb
Inquest opens into death of Welsh student who was first Brit known to have coronavirus
By Court Reporter 3rd February
Connor Reed, 26, from Llandudno, had been a teacher in Wuhan, China.
Opinion: Where did covid come from? We need to get serious about finding out.
Opinion by the Editorial Board July 6, 2021|Updated July 6, 2021 at 3:18 p.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/06/where-did-covid-come-we-need-get-serious-about-finding-out/
China ‘risks international isolation’ over investigation into coronavirus origin: Biden aide
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US will ‘get to the bottom of how this virus came into the world and who has accountability for that’
China has rejected the theory that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the first cases were reported
Bloomberg Published: 6:33am, 21 Jun, 2021
America’s chief immunologist claps back.
Though it is just one of many variants to have arisen during the pandemic, the delta variant is considered one of the most alarming.
Delta variant could become dominant strain in U.S. this summer, CDC head says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/18/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Bombshell Evidence: Live Bats in Wuhan Lab & “Intense Clashes” Between China & France
•Streamed live 6/18/2021 Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng
Today I will first of all show you a bombshell video, which shows that the P4 lab in Wuhan did keep live bats in it. Sky News showed a little bit of it several days ago. I found the entire, 11 minute video and translated it into English. So this is the exclusive world premiere of it. After we watch the video, I will talk about my takeaways of it, and what we should do based on what this video tells us. I hope you can also share your thoughts about this video in the live chat area, or leave us some comments if you are watching after the live stream. #WuhanLab #CCPVirus #COVID19
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China needs system to track coronavirus variants, says top virologist
Guan Yi warns that world must prepare to live with Covid-19, which needs close monitoring to respond to mutant strains and develop vaccines accordingly.
18 Jun 2021 - 10:00AM
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. –
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The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
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VIRAL INFLECTION
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
State Department investigators say they were repeatedly advised not to open a “Pandora’s box.”
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The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence?
View ORCID ProfileShing Hei Zhan, View ORCID ProfileBenjamin E. Deverman, View ORCID Profile Yujia Alina Chandoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.01.073262
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.073262v1
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: a review of SARS Lab Escapes
How China’s ‘Bat Woman’ Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
- By Jane Qiu on June 1, 2020
- Editor’s Note (4/24/20): This article was originally published online on March 11. It has been updated for inclusion in the June 2020 issue of Scientific American and to address rumors that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from Shi Zhengli’s lab in China.
China’s ‘Bat Woman,’ at the Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out
Shi Zhengli, a top virologist, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China’s habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.
Shi Zhengli inside a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017.Credit...Chinatopix, via Associated Press
By Amy Qin and Chris Buckley
June 14, 2021Updated 10:21 a.m. ET
SARS-CoV-2′s claimed natural origin is undermined by issues with genome sequences of its relative strains
Coronavirus sequences RaTG13, MP789 and RmYN02 raise multiple questions to be critically addressed by the scientific community
Yuri Deigin, Rossana SegretoFirst published: 27 May 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202100015
Yuri Deigin and Rossana Segreto contributed equally to this study.
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VIRAL INFLECTION
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
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Natural spillover or research lab leak? Why a credible investigation is needed to determine the origin of the coronavirus pandemic
By Filippa Lentzos | May 1, 2020
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The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
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Among the most prominent was Jamie Metzl, who launched a blog on April 16 that became a go-to site for government researchers and journalists examining the lab-leak hypothesis.
Origins of SARS-CoV-2 MAY 24, 2021
https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
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The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
JUNE 3, 2021
Additional reporting by Lili Pike, with research assistance from Stan Friedman.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Lab-Leak Theory*
Covid-19 Ranged From Illinois to Massachusetts Before States Reported First Cases
Blood samples show people in five U.S. states were infected early, including some in December 2019
By Betsy McKay June 15, 2021 9:00 am ET
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Gravitas Plus: The Lab Leak Theory
Premiered Jun 5, 2021 WION
18 months & 3.7 million deaths later, the Lab Leak Theory is being taken seriously. Is there new evidence now? Why did the world wait so long? Why were our reports labelled “fake” & “misleading?” On Gravitas Plus, WION's Palki Sharma decodes the politics & possibility of a Made In China virus.
EU and U.S. to call for a deeper probe into Covid origins Silvia Amaro
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. | Business World
Nature-based or lab leak? Unraveling the debate over the origins of COVID-19
Accomplished scientists and public health officials stand on both sides.
ByKaitlyn Folmer,Sony Salzman,Sasha Pezenik,Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, andLucien BruggemanJune 14, 2021, 1:46 PM•
First on CNN: HHS watchdog announces review of NIH grants that likely includes money connected to Wuhan lab
By Kristen Holmes and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
Updated 10:30 AM ET, Tue June 15, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/nih-grants-review/index.html
New details on COVID origins and Wuhan lab
Mon, June 14, 2021, 3:22 AM
Terry Moran reports on what lead researchers are learning about COVID-19 while studying inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
https://news.yahoo.com/details-covid-origins-wuhan-lab-072259777.html
Was COVID-19 made inside a Chinese lab? | Under Investigation
Apr 14, 2021 60 Minutes Australia
The world was told the Coronavirus leaped from animals to humans at a market in China – but many scientists now fear it leaked from a lab. Experts reveal the new research techniques that put us all at risk.
Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag
Prashant Pradhan, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Akhilesh Mishra, Parul Gupta, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, Manoj Balakrishnan Menon, James Gomes, Perumal Vivekanandan, Bishwajit Kundu:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?].
Abstract
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
Gravitas: Caught On Camera: Bats locked up inside the Wuhan lab
•Jun 14, 2021 WION
Two videos have emerged that reveal what Chinese researchers were up to in Wuhan. One of them shows how bats were stored inside the Wuhan Lab. In the second clip, Peter Daszak can be heard explaining how Chinese researchers were manipulating viruses. Palki Sharma has more.
Evidence mounts Wuhan lab studied live bats despite denials
Jerry Dunleavy Mon, June 14, 2021, 3:37 PM
Covid-19 Ranged From Illinois to Massachusetts Before States Reported First Cases
Blood samples show people in five U.S. states were infected early, including some in December 2019
By Betsy McKay June 15, 2021 9:00 am ET
Scientists Report Earliest Known Coronavirus Infections in Five U.S. States
Blood drawn from nine people in the earliest days of the pandemic tested positive for the infection. But some experts questioned the results.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/coronavirus-usa-cases.html
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The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak
The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus.
By Steven Quay and Richard Muller June 6, 2021 11:59 am ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-suggests-a-wuhan-lab-leak-11622995184?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
By Nicholas Wade | May 5, 2021
Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out.
For many scientists, challenging the idea that SARS-CoV-2 has natural origins is seen as career suicide. But a vocal few say it shouldn't be disregarded or lumped in with conspiracy theories.
March 18, 2021 THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN VIA AP IMAGES
No one can find the animal that gave people covid-19
Here’s your guide to the WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus.
by Antonio Regalado archive page
March 26, 2021
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covid-coronavirus-cause-origin-wuhan/
Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate On Covid-19 Origin
Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab
by Michael R. Gordon , Warren P. Strobel and Drew Hinshaw
May 23, 2021 2:57 pm ET
Three Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report that could add to calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the lab
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For many scientists, challenging the idea that SARS-CoV-2 has natural origins is seen as career suicide. But a vocal few say it shouldn't be disregarded or lumped in with conspiracy theories.
March 18, 2021 THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN VIA AP IMAGES
The world had a chance to avoid the pandemic—but blew it, finds report
In a new report, independent experts detail the ‘toxic cocktail’ of poor choices and systemic failures that created the current pandemic catastrophe.
by Cassandra Willyard May 13, 2021
SP - Sao Paulo - 04/28/2021 - COVID-19 SAO PAULO, VILA FORMOSA CEMETERY - Coveiro wearing personal protective equipment is seen in front of open graves in the cemetery of Vila Formosa, east side of the city of Sao Paulo, in this Wednesday (28). The number of deaths related to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is close to 400 thousand in Brazil, with the State of Sao Paulo being the most affected by the disease. Photo: Ettore Chiereguini / AGIF (via AP)AP
Wuhan lab staff sought care before the pandemic, a media report says
•May 24, 2021 Reuters
Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported. #News #Reuters #China #Wuhan #COVID
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report, fueling debate over Covid-19’s origin.
U.S. officials say China hasn’t been ‘completely transparent’ in Covid probe
Rich Mendez TUE, MAY 25TH 2021
JAN. 4, 2021
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
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On January 29, 2021 I increased my positions in (JNJ) on a down day for (JNJ)??, when they released their findings on their vaccine.
I have been adding long positions in (MRK)(GILD)(AMGN)(JNJ)(ABBV)(AZN) since September 2020.
our markets look foolish and more like gambling/gaming then investing.
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“OK Boomer” or even “Boomer” – does not mean anything positive now.
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Did China deliberately spread disinformation about the coronavirus? | DW News
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AbbVie Questioned on U.S. Taxes in Senate Finance Investigation
June 2, 2021, 9:44 AM
- Wyden requests details of AbbVie’s country-by-country earnings
- Companies shifted profits overseas after 2017 law, Wyden says
Johnson & Johnson slips as supreme court rejects appeal in talc case
Jun. 01, 2021 9:53 AM ET Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor5 Comments
- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ -1.0%) is trading lower after the supreme court rejected the company’s appeal against a potential payment of $2.1B for women who claimed the company’s talc products helped cause ovarian cancer in them, Bloomberg reports.
- https://seekingalpha.com/news/3701717-johnson-johnson-slips-as-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-in-talc-case
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The move leaves intact the largest verdict in the almost decade-long litigation over J&J's baby powder.
Vaccine Stocks Rebound as Merkel Opposes Waiver of Patents
By Gearoid Reidy and Ishika Mookerjee May 6, 2021, 1:32 AM EDT Updated on May 7, 2021, 3:31 AM EDT
- Shanghai Fosun, CureVac, Novavax advance in Friday trading
- Merkel pushes back on vaccine waiver, clashing with Biden
Merkel Opposes Virus IP Waver German Chancellor Angela Merkel is weighing in against the U.S. proposal to waive patent protections for covid-19 vaccines.
Read more: Analysts say investor fears of U.S. vaccine waiver support are overblown
Vaccine Makers’ Shares Fall as U.S. Backs Patent Waiver
By Gearoid Reidy and Ishika Mookerjee May 6, 2021, 1:32 AM EDT Updated on May 6, 2021, 7:34 AM EDT
- Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna drop in U.S. premarket trading
- Evercore urges caution, says U.S.’s sway remains to be seen
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/asian-vaccines-maker-shares-slammed-as-u-s-backs-ip-waiver?srnd=premium
U.S. backs waiving patent protections for Covid vaccines, citing global health crisis
PUBLISHED WED, MAY 5 20213:09 PM EDT Amanda Macias Kevin Breuninger Thomas Franck
KEY POINTS
- The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it supports waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines.
- Such a waiver could remove obstacles to ramping up the production of vaccines in developing countries.
- The move comes as coronavirus infections surge to their highest levels in countries that have struggled to procure or distribute vaccines.
Who will invest in future therapies when the White House helps other governments steal?
By The Editorial Board | Review & Outlook
White House weighs temporarily lifting intellectual property shield on Covid-19 vaccines
PUBLISHED FRI, MAR 26 20215:06 PM EDT UPDATED FRI, MAR 26 20215:44 PM EDT KEY POINTS
- The White House is weighing whether to temporarily lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.
- The move would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines.
- Concerns have grown about the fact that the U.S. and a handful of other wealthy countries hold the right to a disproportionate amount of the global supply.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/covid-vaccine-updates-white-house-mulls-lifting-intellectual-property-shield.html
White House weighs temporarily lifting intellectual property shield on Covid-19 vaccines
PUBLISHED FRI, MAR 26 20215:06 PM EDT UPDATED FRI, MAR 26 20215:44 PM EDT Kayla Tausche Jacob Pramuk
KEY POINTS
- The White House is weighing whether to temporarily lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.
- The move would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines.
- Concerns have grown about the fact that the U.S. and a handful of other wealthy countries hold the right to a disproportionate amount of the global supply.
White House considers lifting IP protections for vaccines - CNBC
Mar. 26, 2021 5:17 PM ET Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) By: Jonathan M Block, SA News Editor95 Comments
- The White House is considering lifting intellectual property protections afforded to manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, a move that would allow production in other countries, according to CNBC.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3676977-white-house-considers-lifting-ip-protections-for-vaccines-cnbc
Corporate Donor Exodus Builds During Impeachment Debate: Live Blog
Corporations halt political donations, with some singling out Republicans
BY AIMEE PICCHI UPDATED ON: JANUARY 11, 2021 / 6:13 PM / MONEYWATCH
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/political-donations-republican-congress-electoral-certification/
Here Are the U.S. Companies Hitting Pause on Political Donations
By Kevin Miller January 11, 2021, 3:18 PM EST Updated on January 11, 2021, 7:26 PM EST
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/here-are-the-u-s-companies-hitting-pause-on-political-donations
Updated 16 hours ago - Economy & Business Axios
Large corporations cut off political donations after Capitol siege
https://www.axios.com/business-donations-capitol-riot-0b4e26df-ee16-4d5c-9604-e9a3c1e3f284.html
More Blue-Chip Companies Halt Political Donations After Capitol Riot by Trump Supporters
Big businesses including AT&T, GE and Amazon suspend giving to GOP group that sought to block Electoral College certification of Biden win
https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-blue-chip-companies-halt-political-donations-after-capitol-riot-by-trump-supporters-11610395667
Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding
JPMorgan and Citigroup to halt all PAC donations; Blue Cross and Marriott pause funding to Republicans who objected to Electoral College results
https://www.wsj.com/articles/capitol-riot-prompts-some-big-banks-and-companies-to-pause-political-funding-11610315288?mod=article_inline
PGA votes to move 2022 championship from Trump golf course
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 11, 2021 / 4:50 PM / AP
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pga-2022-championship-trump-golf-course-bedminster/
the PGA of America moved to distance the organization from Mr. Trump when it voted Sunday to take the PGA
Championship event away from his New Jersey golf club next year.
Rebekah Jones, Florida’s fired COVID-19 dashboard manager, to turn herself in on FDLE warrant
By GRACE TOOHEY ORLANDO SENTINEL |JAN 16, 2021 AT 4:24 PM
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-rebekah-jones-florida-coronavirus-scientist-arrest-expected-20210116-qcp5gtl4n5ghjlgutwu6fehvum-story.html
“The World’s Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time”
Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’
PUBLISHED WED, JAN 13 20213:07 PM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 13 20215:00 PM EST Berkeley Lovelace Jr. @BERKELEYJRSHARE
KEY POINTS
- Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned Wednesday that the virus will be around “forever.”
- Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will be present at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now.
- “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away,” Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.
Companies Race to Develop Drugs That Stay Ahead of Coronavirus Mutations
Covid-19 medicines currently on the market are cumbersome to use, and doctors worry that virus variants could make them less effective
By Joseph Walker Jan. 17, 2021 9:00 am ET
BiotechSTORM™
Coronavirus: A look inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
•Jul 8, 2020 South China Morning Post
Science
Coronavirus: facing criticism and attacks, WHO team readies report on Wuhan probe
Questions have been raised about the findings of the Covid-19 origins mission and the scientists’ access to information in China
All eyes are now on the official reports, with the first expected to be released this week
Simone McCarthy Published: 11:00am, 17 Feb, 2021
Whistleblowers silenced by China could have stopped global coronavirus spread | 60 Minutes Australia
•Mar 29, 2020 60 Minutes Australia
Biotech-WAR$™ & BiotechStorm™ & BiotecWARS™ & BioHazard2020
Biotech-WARS™ & BiotechStorm™ & BioHazard2020 & now BiotecWARS™
The www.biotechSTORM.com and the www.biotech-wars.com are sections of this site that I had not envisioned when I started www.seekingbiotechalpha.com,
It was only after the New Jersey Senate race of 2018 that I started addressing the political vilification of the biotech sector and unfortunately the sectors continued vilification in 2019 and reaching new bashing heights by politicos in 2020.
I started the www.bioHazard2020.com section of this site, which is now 9 pages of information, in March 2020 when I realized that the amounts of information on the novel coronavirus/SARS CoV2 virus was massive. FYI, ½ of the first page on this site has virus information, once you scroll past my blogs, and is on this page also = https://seekingbiotechalpha.com/biohazard2020-0
I now call this page section = www.biotechSTORM.com as the pandemic and other virus's have impacted the world beyond 2020 and continue in 2021, 2022 and most likely into 2023.
And yes, all during the pandemic/the www.biohazard2020.com , in 2020 the political vilification of the bio-pharma sector reached new heights. The 2020 election year will go down as the worse year for all bio-pharma companies from a political/PR standpoint. The number of political ads, from both sides, castigating the bio-pharma companies over “drug pricing” exceeded all other factors. It is predictable that this industry will again be vilified in 2021,2022 and beyond as the www.biotecWARS.com / www.biotech-WARS.com / www.biotechSTORM.com are now endless.
Thank you for visiting www.biotechstorm.com and www.biotech-wars.com and www.biohazard2020.com and www.biotecWARS.com
Revival’s in the Air – BiotecWARS™Jan. 20, 2021 7:10 PM ET
Revival’s In The Air–BiotecWARS™
Jan. 20, 2021 7:10 PM ET|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AZN, BGNE, BMRN, BMY, BNTX, JNJ, LLY, MRK, MRNA, PFE, RHHBY, SGEN
Summary
After a storm sometimes skies become clearer.
Many companies are now considering or have already concluded that they will no longer fund politicos, either all of them, or some of them.
“The World’s Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time”.
I have been adding long positions in (MRK) (GILD) (AMGN) (JNJ) (ABBV) (AZN) since September 2020 to the SeekingBiotechAlpha portfolio.
Long Only, Deep Value, Dividend Growth Investing, Healthcare
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5545353-revival-s-in-air-biotecwars
How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion
•Sep 29, 2020
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong? How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths? One of the most important functions of journalism is to provide accountability, so in the video above, Johnny Harris dives deep into an exploration of what went wrong and when, and who’s to blame and why.
Biotech-WAR$™-Biohazard 2020
Biotech-WAR$™ & BiotechStorm™ & BioHazard2020
Biotech-WARS™ & BiotechStorm™ & BioHazard2020 & now BiotecWARS™
The www.biotechstorm.com and the www.biotech-wars.com are sections of this site that I had not envisioned when I started www.seekingbiotechalpha.com, It was only after the New Jersey Senate race of 2018 that I started addressing the political vilification of the biotech sector and unfortunately the sectors continued vilification in 2019 and reaching new bashing heights by politicos in 2020.
I started the www.bioHazard2020.com section of this site, which is now 3 ½ pages of information, in March 2020 when I realized that the amounts of information on the novel coronavirus/SARS CoV2 virus was massive. FYI, ½ of the first page on this site has virus information, once you scroll past my blogs.
And yes, all during the pandemic/the www.biohazard2020.com , in 2020 the political vilification of the bio-pharma sector has reached new heights. This 2020 election year will go down as the worse year for all bio-pharma companies from a political/PR standpoint. The number of political ads, from both sides, castigating the bio-pharma companies over “drug pricing” exceeded all other factors. It is predictable that this industry will again be vilified in 2021 and beyond as the / www.biotech-WARS.com are now endless. Thank you for visiting www.biotechstorm.com and www.biotech-wars.com and www.biohazard2020.com and www.biotecWARS.com
Take Me On A Ride – BiotecWARS™
Take Me On A Ride – BiotecWARS™
Feb. 8, 2021 7:38 AM ET
|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), ABMD, AGN, AMGN, AMRN, BGNE, BIIB, BMY, CELG, GILD, IM
Summary
On January 29, 2021 I increased my positions in (JNJ) on a down day for (JNJ)??, when they released their findings on their vaccine.
I have been adding long positions in (MRK)(GILD)(AMGN)(JNJ)(ABBV)(AZN) since September 2020.
our markets look foolish and more like gambling/gaming then investing.
For more a comprehensive perspective on Covid-19 I now view other information sources from around the world.
“OK Boomer” or even “Boomer” – does not mean anything positive now.
Long Only, Deep Value, Dividend Growth Investing, Healthcare
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5552661-take-me-on-ride-biotecwars
Revival’s In The Air–BiotecWARS™
Revival’s In The Air–BiotecWARS™
Jan. 20, 2021 7:10 PM ET
|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AZN, BGNE, BMRN, BMY, BNTX, JNJ, LLY, MRK, MRNA, PFE, RHHBY, SGEN
Summary
After a storm sometimes skies become clearer.
Many companies are now considering or have already concluded that they will no longer fund politicos, either all of them, or some of them.
“The World’s Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time”.
I have been adding long positions in (MRK) (GILD) (AMGN) (JNJ) (ABBV) (AZN) since September 2020 to the SeekingBiotechAlpha portfolio.
Long Only, Deep Value, Dividend Growth Investing, Healthcare
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5545353-revival-s-in-air-biotecwars
Biotech-WAR$™-God, Turn It Around 上帝，把它转过来
Biotech-WAR$™-God, Turn It Around 上帝，把它转过来
Dec. 8, 2020 8:08 PM ET |About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AMGN, AZN, BGNE, GILD, GSK, JNJ, MRK, PFE
Summary
The unfortunate truth is the biotech-WAR$ are never-ending.
I have been adding long positions in (MRK)(GILD)(AMGN)(JNJ)(ABBV) since September.
The worldwide response to this virus has been a colossal failure. America's response to this virus has been horrific.
hyperinflation is already here.
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5529720-biotech-war-god-turn-around
Biotech-WAR$™ Biohazard2020 Peace Be Still
Biotech-WAR$™ Biohazard2020 Peace Be Still
May 11, 2020 1:11 PM ET|About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), BGNE, BMY, LLY, REGN, VIR, WXXWY
Summary
staggering and growing rift between the world’s 2 economic powerhouses.
there are some China based biotech companies that should be considered as strong investments going forward.
biotech investments are critical and important for the health of all countries.
at this point I do not think the origins of the virus matter much as the USA/China relationship could not get much worse.
BioHazard2020 Won’t Stop Now
.
BioHazard2020 Won’t Stop Now
May 5, 2020 5:34 AM ET|About: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN), BNTX, GSK, JNJ, PFE, SNY
Summary
The unfortunate truth is that the COVID-19 virus, will not just go away.
many vaccine candidates are in progress/development/clinical trials.
The virus continues to work its utmost damage among us all.
there is a now a new Biotech-War$ emerging and it is more complicated then the original.
BioHazard2020 & Biotech-WAR$™ Graves Into Gardens
BioHazard2020 & Biotech-WAR$™ Graves Into Gardens
Apr. 23, 2020 2:02 PM ET|About: Incyte Corporation (INCY), Includes: A, ABBV, AMGN, BDX, BMY, GILD, IMMU, LH, LLY, MDT, MRK, MRNA, NVO, NVS, RHHBY, SGEN, TMO, VIR
Summary
11 states should create a new entity = Biotechnology States of America.
Covid-19 remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
The political storm created by the Covid-19 virus is very real.
The economic and human loses from this event will impact America and the world for a long time.
Ruxolitinib (Jakafi®) may help prevent another complication of Covid-19.
BioHazard2020™ Weapon
BioHazard2020™ Weapon
Apr. 14, 2020 6:24 AM ET|About: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD), JNJ, PFE
Summary
there is no evidence that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) now known as = COVID-19 is or was created from a biological weapons lab or any virology lab anywhere.
There is hope with one new med previously intended for another disease – Ebola. Remdesivir (GS-5734, Nuc inhibitor).
Thankfully there are many companies that are developing vaccines for COVID-19.
The virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,”.
Biohazard2020™ Not Done Yet
Biohazard2020™ Not Done Yet
Apr. 5, 2020 9:48 AM ET|About: Abbott Laboratories (ABT), GILD, MDT
Summary
Politico's continue to offer confusion, misinformation, and misdirection.
Hope = Remdesivir.
One of the more intriguing news events during this virus pandemic is the simultaneous crisis in the oil sector.
New Jersey governor calls for 'postmortem' of federal response to coronavirus.
Biotech-Wars™ – Hunger + Thirst
Biotech-Wars™ – Hunger + Thirst
Feb. 29, 2020 12:46 PM ET|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), GILD, JNJ, MRNA, REGN, VIR, WXXWY
Politico’s continue to attack biotech/pharma companies even in the face of a pandemic with COVID-19
Summary
the news coming from China since January 11, 2020 was never positive even if the actual reported statistical data was suspect.
everyone, including everyone in China, has a right to be angry about COVID-19.
too much single source product manufacturing located in China.
politicos are now creating “Anti-Endorsements” lists that identify successful USA citizens.
Biotech-Wars™ – Hunger + Thirst
Feb. 29, 2020 12:46 PM ET|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), GILD, JNJ, MRNA, REGN, VIR, WXXWY
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5414810-biotech-wars-hunger-thirst
Biotech-War$ Burn The Ships
Biotech-War$ Burn The Ships
Mar. 27, 2020 3:47 PM ET|About: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD), Includes: JNJ, MRNA, RHHBY, VIR
Summary
Politicos from every country have failed to understand and to effectively battle the Covid-19 virus.
Politicos from every country have failed to understand and to effectively battle the Covid-19 virus.
The virus was the pin the popped the highly leveraged and overconfident market that many were indicating/predicting needed some adjustment. But not many were forecasting a -37% “pin” reduction vs.Jan.
an antiviral drug is a virus suppressant that blocks the chemical compounds that the virus needs for replication, its goal is to reduce the number of virus counts in the body to a manageable state.
Biotech-War$ Burn The Ships
Mar. 27, 2020 3:47 PM ETGILDJNJ, MRNA, RHHBY...
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5426472-biotech-war-burn-ships
BIOTECH$TORM™ & BIOTECH-WAR$
Biotech-WAR$™-Biohazard 2020
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-WAR$™-Biohazard 2020 Dec. 15, 2019 4:18 PM ET|
Summary
the biotech sector is essentially avoided, at least publicly, as a recommended investment sector.
the 2020 political BiotechSTORM is coming.
I guess that If you can’t get anyone on TV to make positive comments on biotech companies then the sector must not be well liked or a good investment?
I guess the biotech/medtech successes for the past 10 years are and will remain a secret success story and a bewildering anomaly?
There has been “Nothing Else” but biotech success stories this December 2019 as there have been the entire year of 2019. This has been the BIOTECH DECADE -2010-2019.
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Biotech-WAR$™-Biohazard 2020
Dec. 15, 2019 4:18 PM ET|About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), ABMD, AMGN, AMRN, AZN, BIIB, BLUE, BMY, CELG, GILD, IBB,
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-War$ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
|About: (BMY), CELG, Includes: AMRN, JNJ, MRK, NVO, NVS, RHHBY
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Nov. 23, 2019 8:40 PM ET
|About: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY), CELG, Includes: AMRN, JNJ, MRK, NVO,
Summary
For me the world is upside down when success and profit and shareholders and new medicines and new medical devises and new products are vilified, this is insanity.
New Jersey is the “Biotech State”.
Unfortunately, the Biotech-War$™ continue in November 2019 and continue to expand at a high speed towards encompassing many other WAR$ against new business sectors.
But please don’t tell any Politicos about these biotech victories below they would not understand these remarkable events – just read them At Your Whisper, shhh….
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Nov. 23, 2019 8:40 PM ET|About: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY), CELG, Includes: AMRN, JNJ, MRK, NVO, NV
Biotech-WAR$ - ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & HOPE
Biotech-War$™ ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & SUCCESS & HOPE
Biotech-WAR$ - ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & HOPE
Biotech-WAR$ - ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & HOPE
Nov. 14, 2019 9:50 PM ET
|About: Amarin Corporation plc (AMRN), BMY, MRK, PFE
Summary
“POLITICAL ZOMBIES” and are now fully targeting ALPHA.
Zombies create “Irrational FEAR”, they thrive on “Irrational FEAR”.
HOPE is a mechanism developed by the human brain to cope with contexts and situations unfavorable to survival.
HOPEFUL news events, many are even remarkable, in the Biotech and MedTech sectors in just the first 14 days of November 2019 and they WON'T STOP NOW.
Biotech-WAR$ - ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & HOPE
long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
Biotech-WAR$ - ZOMBIES TARGET ALPHA & HOPE
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
Nov. 9, 2019 6:45 PM ET|
About: (ABBV), ABMD, ABT, AGN, AMGN, AMRN, AZN, BGNE, BIIB, BMRN, BMY, CELG
Summary
Politicos are now simultaneously spearheading Biotech-WAR$™, Tech WARS, and now Class WARS.
The biotech/medtech sectors continue to succeed and are on track to have another banner 2019 both in product development and financial success.
Billionaire Leon Cooperman has had enough and is fighting back.
Google and Facebook and Twitter should all fight back as should every Biotech company, every Bank, every business in the America.
https://seekingbiotechalpha.com/biotechstorm
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5205071-danwatson888/5372890-biotech-war-raise-hallelujah
https://seekingbiotechalpha.com/alpha-11
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Biotech War$-Enemy Of The $Tate
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
Biotech War$-Enemy Of The $Tate
Biotech War$-Enemy Of The $Tate
Oct. 18, 2019 12:50 PM ET|
About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AMGN, JNJ, LLY, MRK, VRTX, Includes: AMRN
Summary
Are successful USA based companies now the “enemy of the state”?
Cambridge, Mass. is in my view the epicenter of the biotech industry.
The attacks on all biotech companies will only benefit biotech hubs in Shanghai, China, Basel, Switzerland and Dublin, Ireland all highly supportive biotech centers..
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
Biotech-Wars – I See A Victory
Biotech-WAR$ - Raise A Hallelujah
Biotech War$-Enemy Of The $Tate
Biotech-Wars – I See A Victory
I see a Biotech Victory
I see the power of many “Biotech Victory's”. every day.
promote the power of a “Biotech Victory”.
politicos have made a grave mistake vilifying the biotech sector.
Biotech-Wars – I See A Victory- I see a Biotech Victory
I am long and 100% invested in (PFE) (LLY) (MRK) (JNJ) (BMY) (CELG) (AZN) (AMGN) (OTCQX:RHHBY) (NVS) (ABBV) (GILD) (MDT) (ABT) (ISRG) (REGN) (BIIB) (AMRN) (VRTX) (SGEN) (ABMD)
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Oct. 14, 2019 2:38 PM ET|About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), AZN AZN BMY, GILD, JNJ, LLY, MRK, PFE, RHHBY, SGEN, MDT
Biotech-Wars™ Counteroffensive
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-Wars™ Counteroffensive
Sep. 18, 2019 2:46 PM ET|
About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Summary
politicos have made a massive mistake vilifying the biotech sector.
politicos continue to see the biotech sector as easy targets in an effort to gain votes and win elections.
It is time for all biotech companies to take counteroffensive measures.
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
In a year that the biotech sector has been totally maligned by politicos, biotech companies will again achieve outstanding medical success as they did in 2018. I remain 100% invested in biotech and medtech companies as of 9/18/2019. And I remain long (JNJ).
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-War$ -
The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Sep. 9, 2019 10:10 AM ET|
About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Summary
candidates now see political socialism as the “morally” correct mandate,.
a significant block of voters seem to want much more and expect much more from their government.
Nevertheless, and while under attack, biotech companies continue to bring successful products to market.
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
I am re-investing my biotech dividends back into additional shares of the following companies; (PFE), (JNJ), (LLY), (MRK), (AMGN), (BMY), (AZN), (ABBV), (MDT), (CELG), (GILD), (NVS), (OTCQX:RHHBY)
Biotech-War$-Champions Of The World
Biotech-War$ - The “Morally” Correct Mandate
Biotech-War$-Champions Of The World
Biotech-War$-
Champions Of The World
Sep. 4, 2019 12:51 PM ET|
About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), AZN, BMY, JNJ, MRK, PFE, Includes: ABBV, LLY
Merck Foundation Launches Five-Year Initiative to Reduce Disparities in HIV Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Southeastern US Communities.
Janssen Announces U.S. FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Investigational Prophylactic Vaccine for the Prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Older Adults Leiden, The Netherlands, September 3, 2019 –.
European Commission Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Combination with Inlyta® (axitinib) as First-Line Treatment for Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC).
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
So, what am I doing – I am increasing my long positions in the following companies all with strong dividends and great products = (PFE), (BMY), (MRK), (JNJ), (LLY), (AZN), (ABBV), (AMGN)
BIOTECH-WAR$ - BIOTECH’S FIGHT BACK
BIOTECH-WAR$ - BIOTECH’S FIGHT BACK
Biotech-War$-Champions Of The World
BIOTECH-WAR$
- BIOTECH’S FIGHT BACK
Aug. 27, 2019 8:38 PM ET
|About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Includes: PFE
Johnson & Johnson To Appeal Flawed Opioid Judgment in Oklahoma.
Pfizer Invests Half Billion Dollars to Advance State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Facility in Sanford, North Carolina.
Biotech companies should consider elimination of all political contributions to any/all candidates for the 2020 election season.
danwatson888's Blog long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
And just for the record I am voting for the 134,000 employees of Johnson & Johnson- I am long (JNJ)
BIOTECH$TORM™ VI
BIOTECH-WAR$ - BIOTECH’S FIGHT BACK
BIOTECH$TORM™ VI
BIOTECH$TORM™ VI
Aug. 15, 2019 3:53 PM ET|
About: Novartis AG (NVS), Includes: GILD, NVCR
Summary
- "The historical time lag from U.S. approval to China approval used to be as long as six years but now is only a matter of months."
- "According to Citigroup, NVS has filed more drug applications under China's priority review system since 2016 than any other foreign firm."
- The China National Medical Products Administration seems to be moving quickly for many healthcare companies.
- "Novartis benefits from faster China drug approvals Swiss drug maker expects its China sales to overtake Europe"
long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
Biotech-War$™
BIOTECH-WAR$ - BIOTECH’S FIGHT BACK
BIOTECH$TORM™ VI
Biotech-War$™
Aug. 7, 2019 2:08 PM ET|
About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), LLY, MRK, PFE, Includes: GILD
Summary
The healthcare issue is maddening.
Today there are significant medicines that can help people with the HIV-1 virus l.
offer incentives for biotech R&D centers or biotech production facilities in American cities.
long only, Deep Value, dividend growth investing, healthcare
BIOTECH$TORM™ & BIOTECH-WAR$
BIOTECH$TORM™
BIOTECH$TORM™ III
BIOTECH$TORM™ II
The Perfect BIOTECH$TORM is occurring right now, June 2019.
Trade Wars, Legal Battles, Political Battles, all impact to create the Perfect BIOTECHSTORM.
Nevertheless Biotech companies continue to develop wonderful new products every day.
un. 3, 2019 12:30 PM ET|
About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), AZN, BMY, CELG, GILD, MRK, NVS, RHHBY, SGEN
BIOTECH$TORM™ II
BIOTECH$TORM™ III
BIOTECH$TORM™ II
The perfect BIOTECH$TORM is not over, perhaps it is only in the early stages.
In NJ more taxes coming, more pain, more debt, unfunded liabilities, and in my view a rapid exit of many high-income people from my home state of New Jersey.
Nevertheless, meanwhile and more importantly Biotech Companies continue to make significant product and financial progress irrespective of the negative political environment that only seems to be getting worse.
Jun. 5, 2019 4:18 PM ET|
About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AMGN, BMRN, CELG, JNJ, LLY, MRK, NVS, PFE, RHHBY
BIOTECH$TORM™ III
BIOTECH$TORM™ III
BIOTECH$TORM™ III
Jun. 25, 2019 5:14 PM ET
|About: Amarin Corporation plc (AMRN)
Summary
But the BiotechStorm continues and will now accelerate in intensity as the USA presidential election gains more media coverage.
The new political mantra seems to be “Vote for me and I will give you free money and a free education and free healthcare.”.
But as with any storm there are those who know how to navigate the storms and Amarin's John Thero is one of those who navigates very well.
Someone dies in the United States every 38 seconds from cardiovascular disease. It's number one cause of death more than all cancers combined.
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Jul. 15, 2019 1:05 PM ET|About: Amarin Corporation plc (AMRN), ARRY, AZN, BMY, MRK, PFE
I will not vote for a “government solution to all vision”.
The biotech progress made in June and the 1st half of July 2019 has been remarkable.
too much "Negativity" during these debates, no positive vision.
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Jul. 23, 2019 4:00 PM ET|About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Includes: BSX, SYK, TAK
Summary
The BiotechStorm™ is upon us and will not end until November 3rd, 2020.
Perhaps no other biotech company represents the BiotechStorm™more than Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
the entire election process will be a continuous negative force for all biotech and healthcare companies.
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Aug. 15, 2019 3:53 PM ET|About: Novartis AG (NVS), Includes: GILD, NVCR
Summary
"The historical time lag from U.S. approval to China approval used to be as long as six years but now is only a matter of months."
"According to Citigroup, NVS has filed more drug applications under China's priority review system since 2016 than any other foreign firm."
The China National Medical Products Administration seems to be moving quickly for many healthcare companies.
"Novartis benefits from faster China drug approvals Swiss drug maker expects its China sales to overtake Europe"
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Jun. 8, 2019 5:21 PM ET|About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), AZN, BMY, CELG, LLY, MRK, PFE
Summary
politicos started the BIOTECH-WARS™ and they are continuing the war.
the BIOTECH-WAR$ led to the vilification of the biotech sector.
the Biotech industry severely miscalculated and underestimated the situation they find themselves in.
Long Only, Deep Value, Dividend Growth Investing, Healthcare
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May 24, 2019 11:56 AM ET|About: Celgene Corporation (CELG), JNJ, LLY, MRK, NVS, Includes: ABBV, ARRY-OLD, MDT, PFE
Summary
the BIOTECH WAR$ have expanded to include a new and unexpected target, “wealthy people”.
the victorious party wants to remove all undesirable citizens/unlikely supporters from the state in which they live. Acrimony against biotech companies and now wealthy citizens is where we are at.
Biotech companies are an insufficient sector to the politico’s, and a more expansive “Bad Guy Group” is now needed – i.e., wealthy people, especially if you live in NJ.
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May 9, 2019 8:52 AM ET|About: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), MRK
Summary
the BIOTECH WAR$ may represent a deeper battle going on between the “Socialist” political movement and our current “Capitalistic” economy.
Achieving political power supersedes common sense and support for the biotech business sector becomes non-existent as the sector is politically vilified.
Positive biotech product news seems to have little effect towards improving market valuations.
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IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
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Apr. 30, 2019 5:44 PM ET|About: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), JNJ, MRK, Includes: BMY, CELG, NVO, NVS, PFE, RHHBY
Summary
The “Medicare for all” and the “drug pricing” messaging is working for all those who seek political gain.
Biotech, Medtech and the entire Healthcare sector are losing the battles, and the war as investors flee for less politically targeted sectors.
NJ residents see the "P/C", "Middle Class Only"/ Socialism wave coming.
I may need to stop being so publicly supportive of Biotech companies.
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IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
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Feb. 12, 2019 4:16 PM ET|2 comments |About: AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), AZN, BMY, JNJ, MRK, PFE, SNY
Summary
Biotech companies are easy targets as they are on TV with their advertised products on a year-round basis and they are successful and profitable.
If an incumbent senator can successfully attack a successful and profitable biotech company, that is in his home state, then so can everyone else.
Should any politician target any biotech company in their home state, then most likely they will win votes and are more likely to win elections.
I think these hearings will eventually benefit biotech companies as insurance companies and PBM's and other "profiteers" in the healthcare pricing matrix are exposed.
As a biotech investor the upcoming/ongoing congressional hearings on drug pricing (2/26/2019) does have me feeling a bit on edge.
IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
IT’S BIOTECH OR NOTHIN’!™ Biotech & Politics in 2018
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Biotech & Politics in 2018
Feb. 1, 2019 9:27 PM ET|6 comments |Includes: Abiomed, Inc. (ABMD), BIIB, ILMN, ISRG, MRK, RHHBY, SRPT, VAR, V
Throughout the month of November and December 2018 in the biotech and medtech sectors I was reading/gaining information about one product development success after another. Here are just a few of the many upbeat articles during December 2018 =