Origin of SARS-CoV-2: Lab or Animal?

Controlling the narrative about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes the disease called COVID-19, was a concerted effort by the media and science journals in 2020 while the vaccine “remedy” was in development. After the vaccine rolled-out the lab origin theories were “allowed” to reenter the dialogue to some degree.

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The tide of supportive “evidence” in an opaque world was mounting and heavily leaning in one direction.

Following is an attempt to capture the historical chain-of-events via articles, conversations and testimony surrounding the potential origins of SARS-CoV-2.

Did it originate from a lab?
Was that lab the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)?
If so was it accidental or on purpose?
Was gain-of-function research being conducted in the WIV?
Did the US government indirectly fund that research?
Did the virus appear naturally, from a zoonotic event which the sustainable development-climate agenda has been warning is “inevitable”?
If it was a zoonotic event, which animal was it’s origin?

Additional Resources:

Documentaries, videos, articles and research from DRASTIC – HERE
Swiss Policy Research: On the Origin of SARS Coronavirus 2 – A comprehensive summary of facts concerning the origin of the novel coronavirus (Started April 2020 and updated) – READ
World Health Organisation Official – Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – HERE

The CV-19 vaccines are modeled after the virus spike protein

As more and more evidence emerges, both published and anecdotal, it is quite probable the SARS-CoV-2 virus was created in a lab and not through a natural process.

If the virus was created in a lab, what would that mean in relation to the COVID-19 vaccines?:

The genetic sequence release by the Chinese in January 2020, which contains the “spike protein” code would then be synthetic, chimeric, man-made, non-natural, genetically modified.
All COVID-19 vaccines target and are modeled on the Wuhan “spike protein” sequence.
The spike protein region of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is the part that allows it to infect/enter human cells, this may not have been possible in nature.
The mRNA & DNA gene products, referred to as “vaccines”, which are being injected into billions of people on the planet, as young as 6 months old, would then contain a code that is not natural!
Billions of bodies are being hijacked and having their cells tricked into making a protein, which would then not only be “foreign” to the body (hence the immune response) but foreign to nature, unnatural. Human cells are being forced to manufacture the spike part of a likely genetically modified organism (GMO)!
In addition, the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) transport the mRNA code throughout the body, “infecting” potentially all cell types with a synthetic, modified mRNA code containing unnatural insertions of pseudouridine which causes the code to evade the immune system, and last longer. There is no defined “off-button” for production of the foreign spike protein within human cells – thus there is no set “dose” of spike protein.

Understanding the origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus has far reaching consequences – especially for those injected with the genetic products that code for SPIKE!

Biosafety Lab Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 explained – HERE

US Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (May 2020) – TWITTER, WEBSITE, PRESS

Virus origins data points in reverse chronological order

This is by no means a complete list – there is way too much to choose from for that.
This page will be updated as articles of interest come to my attention.

November 2023 this page is too long to keep updating here, so I have started a new page HERE

2023

November 16, 2023 – Bannons War Room: Natalie Winters Unpacks Fauci-Funded COVID Cover-Up Ringleader Peter Daszak’s Congressional Testimony – “we’ve known this stuff for years” – WATCH, The Spectator – READ

Peter Daszak’s 9.5 Hour Deposition to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic – TWEET

October 24, 2023 – Daily Mail: REVEALED: Anthony Fauci-run lab in MONTANA experimented with coronavirus strain shipped in from Wuhan a year BEFORE Covid pandemic began – READ, Dr Wolf reports – WATCH

SARS-CoV Coronavirus shipped from Wuhan lab to Montana virus lab to infect bats.
RE: December 19, 2018 – Viruses Journal: SARS-Like Coronavirus WIV1-CoV Does Not Replicate in Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) – by Doremalen et al including Ralph Baric – READ

October 25, 2023 – Meryl Nass Substack: Natural origin was CRITICAL to the entire global takeover – READ

How else could you intimately link “Climate Change” with pandemics?

October 14, 2023 – Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on X: Dr. David Morens — a close advisor to Dr. Fauci — likely used his personal email to delete COVID origins documents & evade FOIA laws. – TWEET

September 27, 2023 – NY Post: Fauci secretly went to CIA HQ to ‘influence’ COVID-19 origins probe, House Republican alleges – READ

September 12, 2023 – NY Post: CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges- READ

September 14, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 337: – FULL, – STUNNING ANALYSIS: Were Omicron variants man-made? –WATCH

September 12, 2023 – Daily Mail: 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 – READ, Science Magazine – READ, Natalie Winters – WATCH,

September 12, 2023 – NY Post: CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower (Letter) – READ

September 12, 2023 – Fox News: Whistleblower alleges CIA offered officials money to change view of COVID origins – Intel community has not concluded whether COVID was spurred by a lab leak or natural exposure – Fauci – WATCH

August 27, 2023 – Sasha Latypova Substack: Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Federation Lt General Igor Kirillov speaks about U.S. bioweapons activity – Parsing out facts, fiction, narratives, and reading between the lines – READ

August 15, 2023 – Ask Dr Drew Show: Illegal Biolab in Reedley, California: Escaped Virologist Warns Of CCP Spy Links w/ Dr. Li-meng Yan – WATCH

July 29, 2023 – The Weekend Australian: Covid cover-up: how science was silenced by Sharri Markson – READ an excerpt, CREDIT, ABC journalist on Hot Mic- TWEET

Dr Robert Kadlec’s, (Fauci’s boss) first media interview stated “We think vaccine research …was the proximate cause“.

July 25, 2023 – Mid-Valley Times: Investigation on Reedley building uncovers bio, health hazards – A code enforcement checkup leads to the discovery of an illegal lab, COVID-19 and pregnancy test kits, infectious agents and upwards of 1,000 white mice at 850 I Street – ARCHIVE, NBC News – READ, California Globe – READ, Wuhan 2.0 – READ

“When Reedley code enforcement officers investigated a warehouse at 850 I Street on March 3 over an illegally attached garden hose, they had no idea what massive medical violations they would go on to uncover.
Zero Hedge: “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This” – Mysterious Chinese Bio-Lab Discovered In Remote California City – Why would a bio-lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley, CA in the central San Joaquin Valley? – READ

July 19, 2023 – Public Substack: Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show – Top advisor to Anthony Fauci still thought a lab leak was possible in April 2020, one month after claiming publicly that it wasn’t – READ, CREDIT

“Proximal Origin” authors’ private statements contradicting their scientific conclusions. “Public and Racket [Substack authors] have obtained hundreds of previously unreleased email and Slack direct messages which cover the period when Andersen and his colleagues collaborated to write “Proximal Origin.””
The private communications “show that Andersen and his colleagues clearly thought it was indeed possible not only that the virus that causes Covid-19 had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but specifically that it had been cultured in the laboratory.”

“The lab escape version of this is so friggin likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work & the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
Kristen Andersen (Feb 1, 2020)

July 18, 2023 – NY Times: Biden Administration Moves to Ban Funding for Wuhan Lab – “10-year ban on funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology” to “mitigate any potential public health risk.” – READ, CREDIT

Official HHS Action Referral Memorandum – PDF, ARCHIVE

“On behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I hereby suspend and propose the debarment of Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Capital Construction (“WIV” from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.
HHS memo

July 14, 2023 – WarRoom Battleground EP 333: Natalie Winters Explains Fauci Email Detailing How They Would Quash A Lab Leak Theory – EXCERPT, FULL

Referencing a Feb 1, 2020 email from Anthony Fauci to other people in the NIH discussing how they would artificially select a group of experts to quash the lab leak theory and advocate in favour of the “natural” origin – to absolve the CCP and WIV of blame!

“The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on Gain of Function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection and the outbreak originated in Wuhan..”
Read by Natalie Winters, quoting from Fauci’s email

July 12, 2023 – Vigilant Fox | Excerpt from Jesse Watters Primetime: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The U.S. Won’t Investigate the Wuhan Lab Because the U.S. Funded the Wuhan Lab – WATCH, TWEET

And we did a very, very big technology transfer of bioweapons technology to the Wuhan lab. Bioweapons technology that was developed at NIH expense. I think the CIA was [certainly] involved in this research. They were funding it through USAID. And NIH, I think, in the end, gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan Lab. But USAID, which was functioning as a CIA surrogate, gave over $64 million. And the Pentagon also gave a lot of money.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

February 20, 2020 – Alex Jones interview with Dr. Francis A. Boyle already exposed the bioweapon technology – WATCH, CREDIT

July 11, 2023 – NY Post: Scientists downplayed COVID lab leak theory for fear of ‘s–tshow’ if China was deemed responsible for releasing virus: panel – READ

July 11, 2023 – Washington Examiner: NIH officials were involved in downplaying lab leak possibility, GOP report finds – READ

“Lamenting the political consequences of their research, author Andrew Rambaut said in private communications on Feb. 2 [2020]: “Given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural process.”

July 11, 2023 – Majority Staff Report: The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up – PDF, source CREDIT, The House Oversight hearing – WATCH – [Proximal Origin paper March 2020 – READ]

Interim Staff Report – The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up: Did the “Bethesda Boys” Downplay a Lab Leak? – READ, Final Report 7 – PDF

The Poximal Origin of a Cover-Up – contents – PDF

July 11, 2023 – C-SPAN: Hearing on the Origins of COVID-19 – House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic: Testimony of Scientists Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry re publication of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” – WATCH Testimony transript: Andersen – PDF, Garry – PDF

COVID-19’s origins require a thorough and comprehensive investigation — not a snap judgment based on questionable motives – Rep Brad Wenstrup “Assumptions are not science“- TWEET, JikkyLeaks – TWEET
Q: “How were you able to take genetic engineering off the table so quickly…” A: Andersen- TWEET
Q: Why, then, do the co-authors of “Proximal Origin” continue to deny the possibility of a COVID-19 lab-leak? – TWEET
Rep. McCormick on the COVID Origins Controversy – “this is a scientific discussion but it’s alos a political discussion”- WATCH
@RepJohnJoyce lays out the facts – “improbable” that the virus is a lab leak is based on inaccurate assumptions – TWEET
Dr. Fauci encouraged the creation of the Nature Medicine article he later cited to discredit the lab leak theory – TWEET
Dr Lyons-Weiler on Andersen testimony re January 2020 Advisory Council Review, NIH RFA-AI-19-028 – READ

June 28, 2023 – WION: COVID-19 was engineered as ‘bioweapon’ to purposely infect people, claims Wuhan researcher – READ, Excusive interview with Jennifer Zeng – TWEET, Leading Report – READ

“During the interview, Chinese researcher Chao Shao recounted a story involving his colleague, Shan Chao, who admitted that their supervisor had given them four strains of the coronavirus to evaluate. Their objective was to determine which strain exhibited the highest potential for infecting different species, including humans. These disclosures serve as evidence suggesting a purported motive to develop a transmissible virus.”

June 29, 2023 – The Intercept: Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email to Evade FOIA – David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health, told prominent scientists discussing Covid’s origins that he would delete emails – READ

Note: David Morens has his fingerprints all over 1918 “Spanish flu” origins – i.e. HERE, with Fauci – HERE

June 23, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: JUST IN: DNI Releases Declassified Covid Origins Report – READ

ODNI Declassified Report: Potential Links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic June 2023 – PDF,

June 21, 2023 – US Right to Know: FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs – READ, CREDIT

In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records requests in pursuit of data from public institutions in an effort to discover what is known about the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and also to research lab breaches and extend of gene manipulation

FOIA Emails lists to date:

Rita Colwell emails via University of Maryland
U.S. State Department records
Ralph Baric emails
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records
Department of Education
National Institutes of Health (NIH) records
Shan-Lu Liu emails
Yoshihiro Kawaoka/University of Wisconsin-Madison emails
UC Davis/Jonna Mazet emails and documents
Chao Shan/University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston emails
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) records
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) records
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) grant documents
University of Texas Medical Branch
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records
Latinne et al. (2020) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB)
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) emails – and collaborators,
including Drs. Lin-Fa Wang and Edward C. Holmes.
Fang Li, Linda Saif, Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz emails
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

June 17, 2023 – The Intercept: 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 – Ben Hu, FOIA documents- READ, Patients Zero – TIMELINE

“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.”
US grants funded research at Wuhan Institute of Virology – “The NIAID and USAID grants list Hu as an investigator in the projects being funded” 2018-2019 funding which “potentially directly funded the insertion of [Furin Cleavage Site] FCS sequences into SARS-[l]ike coronaviruses”
“The FOIA documents were first obtained by White Coat Waste in 2021 but given new relevance with the reporting of Hu’s involvement.”
“Congress has mandated the U.S. government to declassify information related to the pandemic’s origin and the Wuhan Institute of virology by Sunday, June 18.” [they didn’t comply]

June 14, 2023 – Public Substack (Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag): First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources – The three scientists were engaged in “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill – READ, TIMELINE

Patients Zero identified – The Sun- READ, Bombshell report identifies Covid’s infamous ‘patient zero’ – READ, Forbes – READ
November 2019 – Three Wuhan lab workers fell ill – TIMELINE
“Scientists say the key piece of the COVID-19 virus, which made it so transmissible compared to its closest relatives, was its unique furin cleavage site.”…DARPA rejected a March 2018 EcoHealth Alliance, and the University of North Carolina grant application, “but it now appears the WIV went forward with the research anyway.”

May 16, 2023 – Epoch Times: EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Pentagon Report Forensically Dismantled Fauci-Led Natural Origin Study – READ, Daily Sceptic – READ

The takedown, dated May 26th 2020, was written in the form of a working paper called ‘Critical analysis of Andersen et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2‘ [PDF]. It was authored by Commander Jean-Paul Chretien, a Navy doctor working at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA], and Dr. Robert Cutlip, a research scientist at the Defence Intelligence Agency. The paper came to light on May 15th 2023, when it was leaked to the public via virus origins search group DRASTIC (Decentralised Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19).
“The working paper forensically dismantles the natural origin case made in Proximal Origin and concludes, “The arguments that Andersen et al. use to support a natural-origin scenario for SARS-CoV-2 are based not on scientific analysis, but on unwarranted assumptions.””
Flashback: Proximal Origin study, which was used by Dr. Anthony Fauci as “proof” that the COVID-19 virus had come from nature

May 4, 2023 – Reuters: WHO dismisses lead COVID origins investigator for sexual misconduct – READ, Gateway Pundit – READ, Telegraph – READ

WHO senior scientist Peter Ben Emabrek led the WHO ‘s mission to China to investigate COVID’s origins and concluded it was “extremely unlikely” the virus came from WIV – he said “very unlikely that anything could escape from that place.” – REF
February 2021 – Media hailed him as an “expert investigator”, – FORBES, GUARDIAN
He previously headed up WHO’s ‘One Health’ initiative on diseases jumping from animals to humans,

April 19, 2023 – Judicial Watch: Records Show Funding for EcoHealth/Wuhan Institute Research to Create Coronavirus ‘Mutants’ – READ, Malone Substack – READ, WATCH

FOIA filed December 2021, received 552 pages
NIH fund GOF research – Dr Malone confirms – WATCH

April 19, 2023 – Oversight Committee PRESS RELEASE: COVID Origins, Part 2 Hearing Wrap Up: Intelligence Community Officials Provide Further Evidence that COVID-19 Originated in a Wuhan Lab – READ, ARCHIVE

April 18, 2023 – Oversight Committee PRESS RELEASE: Wenstrup: Intelligence Community Plays an Essential Role in COVID-19 Origins Investigation – READ

April 18, 2023 – The Telepraph: China ‘began developing two Covid vaccines’ before official outbreak – US senate report concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a lab leak – READ, Dr Campbell: Senate full lab leak document – WATCH

April 11, 2023 – Oversight Committee PRESS RELEASE: Wenstrup to Hold Hearing on COVID-19 Origins Intelligence – Hearing titled “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence” – READ, WATCH

April 11, 2023 – BioRxiv preprint: Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 – Bruttel et al – READ, Arkmedic –CREDIT

Fact: “the genome sequence of the virus is so unique it is impossible to have emerged from nature” – REF i.e. “the SARS-Cov-2 COVID virus was man made because it had an unusual level of restriction sites for specific endonucleases that could have not happened by chance.”
Re the splicing endonuclease BsmBI: “… if a lab was found to have been using the BsmBI enzyme in conjunction with coronavirus research it is the “smoking glove”… that confirms independently that that lab made the virus.” – REF

April 11, 2023 – US Right to Know: Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 – “is one of the most influential scientific articles in history” – READ

“The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” is one of the most influential scientific articles in history“

March 31, 2023 – Oversight Committee PRESS RELEASE: Wenstrup Extends Crucial Invitations to Second Hearing on COVID-19 Origins – READ

March 25, 2023 – Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Are lab leak-denying scientists up to their old tricks? Fauci-backed research team accused of omitting key data from report linking Covid to raccoon dogs – READ

“The omission of that crucial caveat adds to growing concerns about the reliability of the report, whose main authors include scientists who shut down debate about the lab leak theory”

March 22, 2023 – Forbes Breaking News: Rand Paul Directly Confronts Antony Blinken About COVID-19 Research Funding Records – re Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing – WATCH, CREDIT

Federal agencies simply refuse to fulfill Senator requests for information – “executive branch appointees and bureaucrats apparently feel no obligation to respond to requests from an elected representative of the People.”- REF

March 23, 2023 – Senator Ron Johnson asking Xavier Becerra for unredaucted “last 50 pages of communications between Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar related to the origins of COVID-19.” – TWEET, ICAN to submit FOIA – TWEET

March 21, 2023 – Bannons War Room Episode 2602: Robert Redfield Wants To Halt Gain of Function Research – FULL, EXCERPT

Chief Nerd’s recent comments by Dr Robert Redfield:
- Dr. Redfield Responds to Fauci, Hints at Having Insider Information from Fauci’s Circle – EXCERPT
- Dr. Redfield Calls For a Moratorium on GoF Research to Prevent the Next ‘Great Pandemic’ – EXCERPT
- “This Pandemic Was Caused by Science” – EXCERPT

March 19, 2023 – Malone Substack: Information Wars – SARS-CoV-2 Origin – Get a big bowl of popcorn, sit back, watch the show, and learn how the USG propaganda gets spread – READ

Dr. Fauci has apparently decided to mount a media campaign to create confusion and a cloud of ambiguity around the growing lab leak consensus and Dr Redfield’s recent testimony – WATCH, MSNBC – WATCH2,

March 18, 2023 – The Telegraph: How British experiments risked making the Covid pandemic ‘more lethal’ – Scientists carried out tests using delta and omicron that ‘could have combined the two variants and leaked from the laboratory’ – READ, Credit Dr Campbell – WATCH

March 17, 2023 – Bannons War Room: BREAKING: Document Reveal U.S. Had Knowledge Of “Offensive” CCP Bioweapons Program Since 2005 – EXCERPT, WATCH

March 17, 2023 – NY Post: COVID-19 pandemic may have originated in raccoon dogs in China: report – READ

“Researchers who conducted the analysis have expressed caution about their own findings, which do not conclusively prove that raccoon dogs were the original host of the virus….”

March 17, 2023 – The Atlantic: The Strongest Evidence Yet [!!!] That an Animal Started the Pandemic – A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs. – READ

March 16, 2023 – NY Times: New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market – Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them – READ, ARCHIVE, Dr Nass comment – READ

March 16, 2023 – Just The News: As COVID origin secrets near declassification, Wuhan lab’s ties to China military burst into focus – Evidence suggest U.S. has known since 2017 about ties between Wuhan lab and Beijing’s bioweapons program, yet federal agencies still funded research there – READ, WATCH

“The United States first declared in a 2005 State Department document that communist China maintained an offensive biological weapons program in violation of its treaty commitments and that it was run in part by an arm of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS). That report specifically cited the AMMS’ Fifth Institute as the epicenter of the country’s bioweapons program.”
Aug 2005 – US Dept of State: ADHERENCE TO AND COMPLIANCEWITH ARMS CONTROL, NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT AGREEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS- PDF
“A decade later, multiple medical publications emerged from China that linked the AMMS to research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology [EXAMPLE], the very lab that the FBI, the Energy Department and other U.S. intelligence agencies believe was the source of a leak that started the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019.” The same lab that received Dr Fauci’s NIAID grant funding – but the known bioweabons intelligence should have been a “RED FLAG”.
December 2022 Unclassified House Intelligence Committee report titled UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of the SECOND INTERIM REPORT ON THE ORIGINS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, cited a 2015 book titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Humanized Viruses as Genetic Weapons “in which China scientists tied to both AMMS and the Wuhan lab declared that coronaviruses were the leading edge of a new era of genetic weapons warfare”
“”The central premise of the AMMS book is that SARS-CoV-1, the strain of coronavirus that caused the 2002 SARS outbreak, did not emerge naturally but was a chimeric virus artificially engineered as a genetic weapon to infect humans….” which other nations were allegedly creating.
USAID is doing research on GoF in Wuhan…”They are way outside of their lane” said Sen. Roger “Doc” Marshall (R-Kan.)
China’s ultimate “goal here is to get the DNA of every person, of every animal, of every plant”
“So what we’re dealing with here is really something a million times more powerful than a nuclear weapon.”

March 13, 2023 – News Busters: ‘Follow the Money’: CBS Wakes Up to Wuhan Lab’s ‘High-Risk Research’ – READ, CREDIT

March 13, 2023 – Catherine Herridge via Twitter: Records reviewed by CBS News indicate the U.S. government may have paid twice for projects at China’s Wuhan labs through the National Institutes of Health and USAID.” – TWEET, CBS, Bannons War Room Ep 2588 – WATCH, Natalie Winters: CBS Finally Admits Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab.- EXCERPT,

Dianne Cuttler investigates – double billing and potential theft of government funds, tens of millions of US taxpayer money could be involved

March 11, 2023 – Daily Mail: ‘Americans deserve to know the truth’: Republicans demand Biden approve declassification of ALL information on COVID origins and Wuhan lab leaks after Congress backed move 419-0 – READ, AP – READ

March 10, 2023 – The Telegraph: Scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory ‘as they feared ban on high-risk experiments’ – Experts involved in work similar to Wuhan lab wanted to continue with dangerous ‘gain-of-function’ tests, claims Oxford scholar – READ, Dr John Campbell comments – WATCH

March 10, 2023 – Bannons War Room: The Intelligence Community Has Been Directly Funding The Wuhan Institute Of Virology – Dr Robert Malone re Dr Redfield’s testimony – WATCH

March 10, 2023 – Fox News: House Dems, GOP vote unanimously to declassify COVID origins intel, send bill to Biden – READ, Telegraph – READ, CREDIT

“Republicans and Democrats voted unanimously — 419-0 — to require the Biden administration’s director of national intelligence to declassify all intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and possible links to the origins of the COVID-19 virus. That release would be required 90 days after the bill is signed into law“

March 9, 2023 – NY Post: Fauci: Ex-CDC chief Redfield’s claim he was sidelined has ‘no basis in reality’ – Fauci on CNN – WATCH & READ

March 9, 2023 – Fox News: Fauci, allies’ COVID theory approach ‘antithetical to science,’ ex-CDC chief says after snub comes to light – Dr. Robert Redfield says he was sidelined [by Fauci et al] over backing COVID lab leak theory – WATCH

March 8, 2023 – EcoHealth Alliance: EcoHealth Alliance Statement Correcting Inaccuracies in Testimony [by Robert Redfield, Nicholas Wade et al] to be Delivered Before the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on March 8th, 2023 – READ, CREDIT

Nicholas Wade said DEFUSE project was never funded, so why were reagents ordered and allocated to the “DEFUSE Proposal”? – REF

March 8, 2023 – Just The News: Dr. Risch: Fauci kept people in the dark to hide COVID’s origin – WATCH

March 8, 2023 – The Hill: Lawmakers clash over COVID-19’s origins at House GOP’s initial hearing – READ

March 8, 2023 – House Oversight gov: COVID Origins Hearing Wrap Up: Facts, Science, Evidence Point to a Wuhan Lab Leak – READ

March 8, 2023 – Oversight Committee PRESS RELEASE: COVID Origins Hearing Wrap Up: Facts, Science, Evidence Point to a Wuhan Lab Leak – READ, WATCH

March 8, 2023 – C-SPAN | House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic: Select Subcommittee Hearing: Investigating the Origins of COVID-19 – WATCH, READ, RSBN – (2h 48min) – WATCH

Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield joined public health and science professionals and advocates to testify on the origins of COVID-19 – WATCH, Warroom comments – WATCH

March 6, 2023 – NY Post: CNN ex-boss Jeff Zucker told staff not to probe ‘lab leak’ theory because it was ‘Trump talking point’ – READ, CNN insider reaveals to Fox News Digital – READ

March 5, 2023 – Congress of the United States | Memorandum: New Evidence Resulting from the Select Subcommittee’s Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19 – “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” – PDF

March 3, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: Biden Approaches Reporters to Take Questions, Then Walks Away When “Covid Origins” is Brought Up (VIDEO) – WATCH

March 5, 2023 – NY Post: New emails [by House Republican probe] show Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned scientific paper in Feb. 2020 to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory – READ, Fox News – WATCH

March 2, 2023 – Fox News: Chairman Jordan Discusses COVID Origins – govt misleads Americans – WATCH

March 2, 2023 – Sky News Australia: Lab Leak Liars: How China and authorities deceived us – “Now the US Energy Department and FBI have conceded a lab leak most likely caused the pandemic.” – A walk down memory lane – WATCH

March 1, 2023 – Paul Joseph Watson: The conspiracy theorists were right – Fake news wrong! lab leak! – WATCH

March 1, 2023 – BBC: Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is so disputed – READ, BBC – ARCHIVE

On “28 February 2023 the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory – once dismissed by many as a fringe conspiracy theory – resurfaced with FBI Director Christopher Wray’s comments that the bureau believes Covid-19 “most likely” originated in a “Chinese government-controlled lab”.

March 1, 2023 – BBC: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak most likely – “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,” – READ, Guardian – READ, ABC – READ, USA News – READ 9 News Aust – READ, Huff Post – READ

March 1, 2023 – Fox News Exclusive: FBI director says COVID pandemic ‘most likely’ originated from Chinese lab – Department of Energy has also concluded COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from lab leak in China – WATCH & READ, CREDIT

Conspiracy Theorists Proved Right Again – FBI Director Confirms Covid Origin – MONTAGE of news coverage – WATCH

February 28, 2023 – CNBC: China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report – READ, Summit News – READ, Chief Nerd – TWEET, News Shark – READ

Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the government-controlled People’s Daily, a Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Musk
Tesla has an “expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s second largest market.”

February 28, 2023 – Fox News: Credibility crisis: Egg on media’s face after dismissing COVID lab leak as ‘debunked’ conspiracy theory – READ

“The COVID lab leak theory is the latest example of reporters and pundits from organizations like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and Washington Post dismissing something as “debunked” before uncovering the facts, and watchdogs believe the dangerous trend undermines the media’s already poor credibility.”

February 28, 2023 – Fox News | Ingrham Angle: Chairman Jordan & John Ratcliffe Discusses COVID Lab Leak Theory – re Energy Dept intel – WATCH

February 27, 2023 – Fox News: GOP senators push bill requiring Biden declassify all US intelligence connected to Wuhan lab, COVID origins – Hawley, Braun’s bill comes after Department of Energy report concluded COVID ‘most likely’ arose from lab leak – READ, this is reintroducing the 2021 bill – READ

February 27, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: Karine Jean-Pierre Won’t Say if Biden Regime Will Release “Unclassified Version” of Chinese Lab Leak Assessment (VIDEO) – READ, National Security Council John Kirby: “There is Not a Consensus Right Now in the US Government About Exactly How Covid Started” (VIDEO) – READ

February 27, 2023 – System Update with Glenn Greenwald #47: Covid Origins: After Years of Crushing Dissent, Government Backtracks on Lab Leak Hypothesis – WATCH

February 27, 2022 – Telegraph India: China rejects US report’s lab-leak theory on Covid-19 origin – The origins-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 is about science and should not be politicised, says foreign ministry spokesperson – READ

February 27, 2023 – Fox News: White House still backs gain-of-function research to prevent future pandemics: Kirby – READ

“National Security spokesman John Kirby on Monday affirmed President Biden’s support of gain-of-function research, saying it was necessary to prevent future pandemics.”
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has admitted [Oct 20, 2021] to funding gain-of-function research on bats infected with coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan – despite repeated denials from Dr. Anthony Fauci that U.S. tax dollars were used in the funding.”

February 26, 2023 – Forbes: Timeline: How The Covid Lab Leak Origin Story Went From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ To Government Debate – READ

Feburary 26, 2023 – Wall Street Journal: Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says – U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence – READ, National Review – READ, LA Times – READ, CNN – READ, Forbes – READ, Guardian – READ, Tucker Carlson (from conspiracy theory to now) – WATCH, GETTR, Bannons Warroom – WATCH, Dr Malone substack: The lab leak cover-up just got even more twisted – READ

“The report, which was included in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office, was recently provided to the White House and other lawmakers.” – REF
The Energy Department oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, made its judgment in new report with “low confidence,” up from 2021 of “undecided on how the virus originated”
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 likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided. – REF

February 15, 2023 – France 24: WHO chief angrily denies it has ‘quietly shelved’ investigation into Covid’s origins – READ, USA Today – READ

The WHO “acknowledged that China is still not fully cooperating with COVID-19 origin studies”
…there “was no quiet shelving of any plans,” [the] plans were “updated” instead

February 14, 2023 – Nature: WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigation – READ, India TV News – ARTICLE

“The World Health Organization (WHO) has quietly shelved the second phase of its much-anticipated scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing ongoing challenges over attempts to conduct crucial studies in China, Nature has learned.”

February 13, 2023 – Committe on Oversight and Accountability: Wenstrup & Comer Launch First Select Subcommittee Investigation into COVID Origins and U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Funneled to the Wuhan Lab – Letters to Fauci, Collins, Daszak, Becarra and Haines – READ

February 7, 2023 – War Room: EXC: Pfizer’s Chief Vaccine Officer Advised US Government On Redrafting Gain Of Function Research Policy – READ, Also See: HHS lifts ban on Gain-of-Function research – TIMELINE

“…the proximity of Pfizer’s Philip Dormitzer to the U.S. government’s effort to redraft its policies surrounding gain of function research in 2016 is curious, as he was working as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for RNA and Viral Vaccines at Pfizer at the time.”

January 27, 2023 – Muddy Waters – The Origins of COVID-19 – 300 page report – READ, PDF, Executive summary – READ, CREDIT

January 22, 2023 – Clandestine Substack: NIH Emails Show Fauci Facilitated Lab-Origin Coverup! – “New un-redacted NIH emails released between Dr. Anthony Fauci of the US NIH and British Scientist and now Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization, Dr. Jeremy Farrar.” – READ

January 10, 2023 – Daily Sceptic: U.S. Government Identified as Original Source of Lab Leak Theory. What’s Really Going On? – READ

The first known mention of the idea that the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese lab came from a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA) – “a U.S.-Government-funded media outlet that is essentially a CIA front, once named by the New York Times as a key part in the agency’s “worldwide propaganda network” on January 9, 2020 – before any deaths were known!
The RFA is now “managed by the Government-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which answers directly to the Secretary of State – who, at the outset of the pandemic was Mike Pompeo, whose previous job was as CIA Director.”

January 2, 2023 – Mel K Show with Whistleblower Dr. Andrew G. Huff | Digging Into the Truth About Wuhan – WATCH

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December 19, 2020 – Brownstone Institute: The Other Lab in Wuhan: The German-Chinese “Laboratory for Virus Research” – READ Laboratory – HERE

Infectious diseases lab in the area of the cluster: the German-Chinese Joint Laboratory of Infection and Immunity at Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, is located on the same side of the river in the cluster

December 15, 2022 – American Media Periscope | Making Sense of the Madness (MSOM) Ep 643: The Covid Cover Up with Dr. Andrew Huff [former EcoHealth Alliance] and Edward Dowd – WATCH

Dr. Andrew G. Huff – former vice president and senior scientist at EcoHealth Alliance
The Truth About Wuhan: How I uncovered the biggest lie in history by Dr Andrew G. Huff – BOOK

December 14, 2022 – NY Post: House GOP report claims COVID may be linked to Chinese bioweapons program – READ, Fox News – READ

The Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence interim report, conflicts with last year’s findings by the intelligence community (IC) “Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origins” REPORT which stated “We judge the virus was not developed as a biological weapon” but finally state that “China’s cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19”.

December 14 2022 – Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence interim report titled UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of the SECOND INTERIM REPORT ON THE ORIGINS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – REPORT, Press Release: Rep. Wenstrup releases HPSCI’s COVID-19 origins report – READ, TIMELINE

cited a 2015 book titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Humanized Viruses as Genetic Weapons “in which China scientists tied to both AMMS and the Wuhan lab declared that coronaviruses were the leading edge of a new era of genetic weapons warfare” – REF
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 report states.

December 3, 2022 – The Sun: I worked with the Wuhan lab – I tried to warn them & I KNOW Covid was a lab leak – Dr Andrew Huff, former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance – READ, NY Post – READ

“EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said in his book “The Truth About Wuhan” [release date Dec 6, 2022], an exclusive pre-release copy of which was provided to The Sun Online.
Huff quit EcoHealth Alliance in 2016 “due to a large number of ethical concerns with the scientific work and EcoHealth Alliance as a whole”.
In late 2019, Huff was suddenly offered a position at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – and was told he would need top security clearance and a polygraph for the job. – he didn’t take the job, which could potentially have strategically silenced him as “working outside the government’s control made me a threat to their agenda” he wrote
“”It is my belief that people working within the US government potentially identified me as a risk to knowing firsthand that the SARS-CoV-2 disease emergence event was a consequence of the US government’s sponsorship of the genetic engineering of SARS-CoV-2 domestically and abroad,”

November 29, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: New Emails Chronicle Lab-Leak Coverup in Real Time – READ, Original at Daily Sceptic – READ
New Fauci email release Nov 23, 2022 – TWEET, DOCS, SUBSTACK
The eventual outcome of this discussion listed in the article was the “Proximal Origins” paper in Nature on March 17th 2020 – TIMELINE

“The first thing to note is that the emails confirm that those involved – Fauci, Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust and CEPI, UK Chief Scientist Patrick Vallance, Kristian Andersen from Scripps, Germany’s Christian Drosten and more – were not aware prior to late January [2020] that the virus was likely to be of lab origin.”
On February 2, 2020 Fauci writes that, “like all of us, I do not know how this evolved”
On Feb 9, 2020 – Christian Drosten “Who came up with this story in the beginning? Are we working on debunking our own conspiracy theory?” !!
Kristian Andersen acknowledge that they have been “trying to disprove any type of lab theory“
prior to Pangolins “the consensus in the emails was settling on the proposal that while the virus didn’t appear deliberately engineered it could have resulted from “repeated tissue culture passage” in a lab.” – [which is what Dr Judy Mikovitz suggested in 2020]
Ed Holmes it could be possible “accidental lab passage in animals to give glycans” which typically emerge in the presence of an immune system [note there is mounting evidence that the virus was present in USA and Italy in late 2019]
Patrick Vallance, for one, was glad to hear that the pangolin sequences would likely counter the “passage origin”

November 23, 2022 – Telegraph: 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 – READ, CREDIT

November 3, 2021 – The Intercept: Origins of Covid – The Intercept sued the National Institutes of Health for internal documents on coronavirus research in China and transformed the debate on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. – (continuously updated) READ, ARCHIVE, CREDIT

Nov 3, 2021 – Emails show that NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own gain-of-function research. – READ

November 4, 2022 – Sirus XMv| The Megyn Kelly Show: COVID Origins Deep Dive – Nature or Lab Leak? Two researchers perspectives – (Megyn stated Dr Garry would not debate Dr Chan directly) – WATCH

Dr Robert Garry – Virologist, Tulane University & co-author of the “proximal origins” paper – EXCERPT, The PAPER
Dr Alina Chan, Molecular Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard – EXCERPT, BOOK

Without the furin cleavage site “this virus would never have caused a pandemic” – EXCERPT

October 2022 – US Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions – Minority Oversight Staff – An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Interim Report – PDF, Dr John Campbell – CREDIT

October 30, 2022 – Robert Malone Substack: Minority Report: Pandemic Origins – An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID19 Pandemic: Interim Report – READ, Michael Callahan – TIMELINE

October 29, 2022 – Daily Mail: UK scientists [at Imperial College] created mutant Covid strains in ‘high-risk, low-benefit’ lab experiments: SAGE-linked team comes under fire amid calls for more regulation over controversial ‘gain-of-function’ research – READ, TWEET, Gateway Pundit – READ, preprint – STUDY

Similar to the Boston project, Imperial researchers infected hamsters with SARS-CoV-2 variants, the results of which were published online on May 13, 2022
“pseudovirus with Omicron spike, engineered in the S2 domain to confer a more Delta-like cell entry route”

“At least four labs on two continents now have construed non-natural, lab-generated viruses that retain the high immune escape of Omicron and acquire higher severity than Omicron and that, as such, are reasonably expected to increase transmission or pathogenicity in humans,”
Richard Ebright in a TWEET

The Four studies – Where – TWEET1, Funding – TWEET2

Boston University (Fauci)
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston (Fauci)
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Imperial College-London (Farrar)

October 23, 2022 – Dr John Campbell: New Boston virus – WATCH

October 21, 2022 – Alex Washburne Substack: A synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 – What we know, and what we don’t – READ, THREAD, Eugyppius Substack – CREDIT

Preprint: Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 by Washburne et al – READ
The lab “fingerprint is in the SARS-CoV-2 genome” – considered assembly similar to ‘golden gate assembly’
“We found a clear pattern in how researchers tended to add/remove cutting/pasting sites” – regular spacing
“Testing this from multiple angles, we could not reject the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a synthetic origin. Each test also decreased the odds of SARS-CoV-2 having a natural origin”
…”our results are independent of the Furin Cleavage Site.”
“Our theory of a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 can & should be tested.”

October 21, 2022 – Preprint: Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 by Bruttel, Washburne et al – READ,

Anandamide Substack: A deep dive on TypeIIs Restriction enzymes – READ, Smoking gun – READ, Arkmedic – READ, Jessica Rose Substack – READ

October 19, 2022 – VOS: Why do labs keep making dangerous viruses? – READ

October 19, 2022 – Daily Mail: 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 – READ

October 18, 2022 – Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is playing with fire – it could spark a lab-generated pandemic’: Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate – lab creates Omicron plus Wuhan spike protien virus and 8 out of 10 mice died – READ

October 14, 2022 – PrePrint: Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic 1 behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron by Chen et al – PDF
“In…mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent.’
“If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of ePPP research be strengthened.” says Dr Ebright

October 14, 2022 – PrePrint: Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic 1 behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron by Chen, Kotton et al – READ, PDF

Author also included Darrell N. Kotton, husband of ACIP committee member Camille N. Kotton who on October 23, 2022 voted to put COVID-19 vaccine on childhood schedule, making Big Pharma liablility free forever!!! – GETTR, The Highwire – CONTEXT

October 3, 2022 – Attorney Tom Renz Substack: The Creation of SARS-COV2 & What Will Be Done About It – Attorney Tom Renz has former EcoHealth Alliance whistleblower Dr Andrew Huff‘s testimony – READ, Emerald Robinson SUBSTACK

October 2, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Fauci’s Pal Dr. Peter Daszak Is Awarded New Government NIH Grant to Study Bat Coronavirus in Asia – in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam – READ, NIH grant effective Sep 21, 2022 until Aug 2027 for $653,392 – HERE, ARCHIVE, The Intercept – ARTICLE, TWEET

Dr. Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance were awarded a new grant to study bat viruses in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. – bat screening to assess ability to infect human cells!
The NIH Grant: Analyzing the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam – Project Number: 1R01AI163118-01A1, Former Number: 1R01AI163118-01- READ

September 28, 2022 – A Biologist’s Guide to Life Substack by Alex Washburne [an epidemiologist]: How to Investigate SARS-CoV-2 Origins – What are the ethics for investigators and researchers under investigation? – READ, CREDIT, GETTR

“My main point here is that I’ve established myself as a researcher in this field and the question of whether or not SARS-CoV-2 arose from direct spillover or indirectly as a consequence of risky research is a question I’m actively researching using tools from my pre-COVID toolkit.”

September 24, 2022 – TrialSite News: “Everyone needs to know the truth” Former EcoHealth Alliance VP turned whistleblower speaks out – Dr Andrew G. Huff, former EcoHealth Alliance VP turned whistle-blower spoke exclusively to Trial Site News’ Sonia Elijah about his tenure at the controversial organization…hi is an expert in the field of bioterrorism and biosurveillance …He warned Dr Peter Daszak, his former boss, about the biosafety and biosecurity risks but Daszak was dismissive of his concerns. – WATCH

September 23, 2022 – Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Used by HHS were Conducted in China – READ, Dr Wolf explains – WATCH

The FOIA to HHS requesting was for all biodistribution studies and data for the COVID-19 vaccines
The newly unredacted documents reveal that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine studies, namely the vaccines’ synthetic lipid nano-particles (ALC-0315 and ALC-0159) in vitro metabolic stability studies were done in a testing facility August 2020 in Shanghai, China!

September 22, 2022 – Zero Hedge: Watch: Rand Paul Promises To “Find The Paper Trail” For Lab Leak COVID Origin – “Senator Rand Paul vowed this week to continue to expose the origins of the COVID pandemic and uncover a paper trail that he is positive will lead back to the Wuhan lab research funded by Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health.” – READ

September 17, 2022 – Daily Mail: World’s top medical journal [The Lancet] finally says Covid-19 COULD have come from lab leak – READ – [see The Lancet Commission Sept 14 below]

September 16, 2022 – Just the News: ‘Fauci knows’ he funded gain-of-function research, ‘misled Congress,’ former CDC director says – “Nothing’s going to happen as long as the Biden administration is here,” Robert Redfield says, citing threats on his life for promoting the lab-leak theory – READ

September 15, 2022 – The DisInformation Chronicle | Paul D Thacker Substack: Former CDC Director Robert Redfield On Inside Battles With Anthony Fauci, And Why Classified Information Will Point to a Lab Accident in Wuhan – READ, The Highwire ep 288: Jaxen Report – WATCH

September 15, 2022: Daily Mail – Fury as The Lancet sensationally claims Covid may have leaked from an AMERICAN lab – echoing anti-western claims peddled by Beijing – Lancet journal “suggested the US could have created the Covid virus” – READ, the article includes a timeline, many links already captured on this website – HERE

September 14, 2022 – The Lancet: The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic by Jeffrey Sachs & Susan Michie et al (Launch of the Final Report of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission) – READ, COVID-19 commission – WEBSITE, Dr John Campbell coverage of this paper – WATCH

Who is Jeff Sachs – SUBSTACK

“As of the time of publication of this report, all three research-associated hypotheses are still plausible: infection in the field, infection with a natural virus in the laboratory, and infection with a manipulated virus in the laboratory.”

September 13, 2022 – Dr. Paul Joins Kudlow to Discuss Lab Leak Investigation – WATCH, references NY Post – ARTICLE

August 21, 2022 – RFK Jr The Defender Podcast: Origins of the Virus with Jeffrey Sachs – LISTEN

August 30, 2022 – Unherd: The lab-leak theory isn’t dead – READ

“A determined effort is once again underway to dismiss the lab-leak theory for good. Two and half years on, we are still very much in the dark as to when, how and even where SARS-CoV-2 first made its appearance…
For around a year and a half, the “lab-leak” hypothesis was ridiculed and dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory and anyone who raised it deemed a crackpot — and even subject to censorship on Twitter and Facebook…
A new campaign is now underway to put the lab-leak theory to rest once and for all. The recent publication of two new studies providing more evidence that SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live animal trade at the Huanan Seafood Market has led several outlets to emphatically claim that “the Covid lab leak theory is dead”, once again misleading citizens into thinking that the debate is now really settled.”

August 25, 2022 – National Pulse: EXC: U.S. Funds Wuhan ‘Bat Lady’ Report Co-Authored With China’s CDC Director Calling for EXPANSION of World Health Org Powers. – READ Shi/Gao PAPER

August 20, 2022 – Epoch Times: US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China – READ

The “NIH informed EcoHealth Alliance that the subaward to the Wuhan lab is terminated “for failure to meet award terms and conditions requiring provision of records to NIH upon request,”” – READ

August 21, 2022 – RFK Jr The Defender Podcast: Origins of the Virus with Jeffrey Sachs – LISTEN

August 15, 2022 – Forbes: Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why? by Steven Salzberg – READ

Published in Journal of Virology on August 4, 2022 – Pandemic 1918 Influenza Virus Does Not Cause Lethal Infection in Rhesus or Cynomolgus Macaques – A team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect macaques – PAPER

August 9, 2022 – US RTK: Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study – Peter Hotez – READ

August 9, 2022 – US Right to Know: Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study – Peter Hotez “helped fund research on controversial chimeric coronavirus” – READ, CREDIT

“As part of his NIH grant, Hotez subcontracted funding for research on combined or “chimeric” coronaviruses, a scientific paper shows. Hotez’s grant underwrote two of Shi’s collaborators on the project.”

August 5, 2022 – Blaze TV: Room Goes SILENT When Sen. Josh Hawley Exposes Fauci’s Gain of Function Blatant Lies – WATCH, SOURCE

August 4, 2022 – Senator Dr Roger Marshall: Sen. Marshall Connects Dr. Fauci to EcoHealth Alliance’s Gain-of-Function Research Projects in China – WATCH

August 3, 2022 – Daily Signal: 4 Takeaways From Senate Panel’s Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research, COVID-19 – READ

“no democrats attended the hearing” even though Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) is subcommittee chairwoman, and her name was on the hearing schedule! – READ

August 3, 2022 – Epoch Times: Experts Call on Congress to Quickly Implement New Gain of Function Oversight System After NIH ‘Failure’ By Zachary Stieber – READ, ARCHIVE

“Experts urged Congress on Aug. 3 to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the United States, saying that the present system [PC3O framework] is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments.”

August 3, 2022 -Doc Marshall Gov: Sen. Marshall Connects Dr. Fauci to EcoHealth Alliance’s Gain-of-Function Research Projects in China – READ, WATCH

August 3, 2022 – US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs| Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight: FIRST Hearing on Virus Research Funding , chaired Sen Rand Paul – CSPAN, PART1, PART2

Revisiting Gain of Function Research: What the Pandemic Taught Us and Where Do We Go From Here – READ

First-Senate-Hearing-on-Gain-of-Function-Research-Since-Start-of-Pandemic

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Emerging Threats holds a hearing to examine federal investment into the gain of function research of viruses and diseases.

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are leading this first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 2, 2022 – Current Affairs: 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. – READ

August 15, 2022 – The Conversation: The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market by Edward Holmes! – READ [The same scientists from 2020 papers and Fauci emails- REF1, REF2]

July 26, 2022 – Science Vol 377: The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic – by Kristian Andersen, Edward Holmes et al – READ
July 26, 2022 – Science Vol 377: The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2 – by Kristian Andersen, Edward Holmes et al – READ

“But the studies don’t provide any evidence that the virus didn’t escape from the Wuhan lab — they simply argue that it’s not a plausible scenario” Also “there’s no evidence that the virus was present at the WIV before the pandemic started…the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”! – ARTICLE

July 28, 2022 – CBS News: New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild – the Wuhan market – READ

July 27, 2022 – Malone Substack: Rewriting history: Just another day in DC – “Lab leak”, “Wuhan wet market”, “Devil’s Hole”, “Big Tom” and “Gain-of-Function” Research. …Not sure why Fauci continues to obfuscate about the origins of the virus… But we can all speculate why. It is nice to see Dr. Redfield not going for Fauci’s BS. – READ, WATCH

July 27, 2022 – Dinesh D’Souza: Democrats will NOT ban funding for Chinese Gain of Function Research – Sen Rand Paul – EXCERPT, Flashback to May 26, 2021 – WATCH

July 26, 2022 – Science Magazine: The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic – Authors include Michael Worobey, Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Robert Garry, et al – READ, CONTEXT, Context 2 – Animals culled no virus found – TESTIMONY, NPR – ARTICLE, ARCHIVE, Referenced – ARTICLE

DEBUNKED: Science Magazine’s Paper Advocating Market Origin for COVID Based on False Statistics – READ

July 26, 2022 – Science Vol 377: The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2 – by Pekar, Garry, Andersen, Worobey, Holmes et al – READ, Refereced ARTICLE

July 25, 2022 – Steve Kirsch interview with [Chinese] virologist Li-Meng Yan on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and what’s next – WATCH

July 21, 2022 – Just The News: NIH accidentally unmasks official who hid Chinese-submitted coronavirus data in March 2020 – READ, NIH FOIA’d EMAILS

Agency asks court to seal records related to FOIA lawsuit that name NIH “curator” who approved removal request and Chinese researcher who submitted it. Whistleblower support activist says names were publicly available to researchers, not “classified information.”
“Now the agency is trying to convince a federal court to seal portions of those records and a litigant’s filing that name the earlier Chinese researcher and his NIH handler”

July 17, 2022 – Judicial Watch with Tom Fitton: FBI investigating Fauci – Gain of Function concerns – FOIA took 2 years (first FOI request April 2020) and a lawsuit to get this information from NIH (1,651 pages) – WATCH

The documents show in March 2020 the FBI were inquiring about the NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance which was in turn funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
Documents showed Fauci’s agency were very much concerned about gain of function research going on at WIV as far back as 2016!
The grant “understanding the risk of coronavirus emergence” was under investigation based on grant numbers.
An NIAID email dated May 9, 2016 marked “High importance” showed EcoHealth Alliance failed to submit a progress report on the bat coronavirus research “non-compete” grant. This is the second request.
In August 2021 Daszak asked for more NIH funding
The media are not covering this enlightening information.

July 16, 2022 – Judicial Watch: EXPOSED! FBI probed NIH gain of function research – Tom Fitton and Vince Coglianese discuss – WATCH, BACKUP, READ, GETTR

Judicial Watch receiving 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.

July 15, 2022 – Epoch Times – FBI Launched Inquiry Into NIH Funding of Wuhan Lab, Emails Show – READ

July 15, 2022 – Judicial Watch: FBI Investigated Fauci Agency! – READ

July 15, 2021 – NPR: The WHO’s Chief Says It Was Premature To Rule Out A Lab Leak As The Pandemic’s Origin – READ

Tedros said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus might have escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan — undermining WHO’s own March report, which concluded that a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely.”

– “May 9, 2016, email marked “High” importance, in which NIH official …”Carine Normil notes Peter Daszak’s failure to file a progress report on EcoHealth’s bat coronavirus research…”

July 13, 2022 – Daily Caller: NIH Officials Repeatedly Warned Bosses In 2016 About Funding Dangerous ‘Gain Of Function’ Research In Wuhan Lab – READ, GETTR

July 12, 2022 – Epoch Times Truth Over News : Leading Fauci-funded scientist [Ian Lipkin] Who Pushed Natural Origin Theory Concealed his Wuhan Link and Conflict of Interest – WATCH, EXCERPT

Ian Lipkin

Is behind the movie “Contagion.”
He worked in Beijing as an intermediary between the World Health Organization and the Chinese regime.
He also worked closely with Chinese Communist Party United Front leader Chen Zhu. [Beijing Lab – ARCHIVE]
He is a co-author of “Proximal Origin—the infamous article that was conceived by Dr. Anthony Fauci and his group of scientists to push the false narrative that the COVID pandemic had a natural origin.”
“And now it emerges that Lipkin also worked for Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance through whom Fauci funded the Wuhan lab.” – the problem is that Lipkin didn’t tell anyone about this last part!

For the Proximal Origin paper in question see March 17, 2020 below

Dr. Lipkin is among the researchers from around the world who collaborated on the investigation of the SARS outbreak in the spring of 2003 – READ
Dr Lipkin admitted that he knew by December 15, 2019 that there was an outbreak in Wuhan! 16 days earlier than any public reporting by the Chinese – @8:39

July 8, 2022 – CHD The Defender:Virologist Who Tried to Discredit COVID Lab-Leak Theory Hid Ties to Wuhan Lab – READVirologist Ian Lipkin, who co-authored a paper marginalizing the theory that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab, did not disclose his ties to EcoHealth Alliance, a research group with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

July 7, 2022 – American Thought Leaders: Natalie Winters: Texas Lab Agreed to Destroy Records If Asked by Wuhan Institute of Virology – READ

July 1, 2022 – US Right to Know: Virologist [Ian Lipkin] who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance – READ

“A virologist who coauthored a paper marginalizing the lab leak theory did not disclose his ties to the research group at the center of it.”
2011 Lipkin worked closely with Daszak, they co-authored at least 10 papers
2013 EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) honoured Lipkin as one of their own scientists
2014 Lipkin was listed as a partner EHA website!
2016 they were listed together at an event in which the Wuhan lab works were disclosed by Daszak – [When you manipulate viruses in a lab, they can eventually infect humans!] – WATCH

June 20, 2022 – Senator Roger Marshall and Jim Jordan Discuss the Fauci COVID Cover Up – WATCH, READ

June 15, 2022 – GATE Centre: Meeting with Professor Jeffrey Sachs an economist and UN advisor for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): – FULL, TWEET, SOURCE

TRANSLATED: “In this exclusive meeting with Jeffrey Sachs we discuss the situation of the SDGs in the world after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, from a socio-economic perspective.”

“I chaired the commission for the Lancet for 2 years on Covid. I’m pretty convinced it came out of a US lab biotechnology […] We don’t know for sure but there is enough evidence. [However] it’s not being investigated, not in the US, not anywhere.”
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

June 10, 2022 – The Associate Press: China calls COVID ‘lab leak’ theory a lie after WHO report – China has attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie – READ

June 9, 2022 – WHO: Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) – Preliminary Report (Vers 1 April 13, 2022, Vers 2 may 15, 2022) – READ

“The results were inconclusive, largely because “key pieces of data” from China were missing, leading the WHO to recommend in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe was required into whether a lab accident may be to blame.” – REF

June 7, 2022 – Epoch Times Truth Over News: Newly Released Emails Reveal Crucial Details of Fauci’s Efforts to Cover Up the Origins of the Pandemic – WATCH

May 31, 2022 – Jeff Sachs: Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered – READ, Dr Meryl Nass – SUBSTACK

May 23, 2022 – Igor Chudov Substack: Sars-Cov-2 was Lab Made Under Project DEFUSE – Sars-Cov-2 is a Result of Years of Documented Scientific Work – long article – READ

The strange HIV Gp120 and “gag” inserts
Furin Cleavage Site
Dr. Fauci is an expert on HIV and Gp120 glycoprotein & patent holder
Peter Daszak’s 2018 “Project DEFUSE” proposal describes exactly what Sars-Cov-2 actually is.
Sars-Cov-2 was possibly cultured on a Moderna MSH3 cell line containing a patented Moderna gene sequence CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG.

May 19, 2022 – PNAS: A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – Jeffrey Sachs et al – READ, Dr Alexander: Genetic code PRRARSVAS….this is the FURIN CLEAVAGE SITE – SUBSTACK

“The NIH has resisted the release of important evidence…”

May 9, 2022 – Radical w/Maajid Nawaz #3 – 3 – Whistleblowing On Bio-Labs in Ukraine and Wuhan, China – We speak to Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva about confirmed Bio-Labs on Russia’s border with Ukraine. – WATCH

April 4, 2022 – National Pulse: Fauci’s Colleague Offered to Secretly Erase a COVID-19 Paper Containing Data Hidden By China. It Happened During an ‘Extremely Contentious’ Zoom Call Which Saw Scientists ‘Yelling at Each Other’ – READ

May 3, 2022 – American Thought Leaders – Natalie Winters: Texas Lab Agreed to Destroy Records If Asked by Wuhan Institute of Virology – WATCH (free to sign up)

May 2022 – Bill Gates Continues to Dismiss Lab Leak Theory, Instead Blames Climate Change for Pandemics – EXCERPT (source unknown)

April 29, 2023 – Broken Truth: NIHgate – READ, CREDIT

April 2019, in Wuhan China, featuring Eric O. Freed with the Wuhan Institute of Virology managing director Xi Zhou, and Shi Zhengli, the notorious ‘Boatwoman’ involved in Chinese research. –READ, source

April 24, 2022 – Washington Examiner: Wuhan lab had agreement with Texas university over destroying ‘secret files’ – READ

“The Wuhan Institute of Virology had an agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Galveston National Laboratory to collaborate on scientific research, with the Chinese lab entitled to ask the Texas lab to “destroy” any “secret files.” ”

April 14, 2022 – Epoch Times | Truth Over News: NIH Helped Chinese Scientist Delete Data Pointing to a Lab Leak and Later Tried to Cover Up Their Actions – Jesse Bloom story – WATCH, Vanity Fair – READ

April 10, 2022 – Arkmedic Substack: Absolute proof: The Gp-120 sequences prove beyond all doubt that “COVID-19” was man-made – The “missing link” was there in Pradhan’s [Feb 2020] paper all along, we just needed to ask the right question: “where are the genome sequences for the Gp-120 inserts” – READ

Common rebuttles: #3 “that 19nt sequence wasn’t actually claimed in the Moderna patent” (true, but it was still a Moderna sequence listed in the patent – they just didn’t want to patent all 30,000 of them because it would cost a fortune so they tricked Genbank into accepting them as patented sequences for free)”

April 4, 2022 – The National Pulse: Fauci’s Colleague Offered to Secretly Erase a COVID-19 Paper Containing Data Hidden By China. It Happened During an ‘Extremely Contentious’ Zoom Call Which Saw Scientists ‘Yelling at Each Other’. – READ

April 2, 2022 – Just The News: NIH deleted COVID info from public view at Wuhan researcher’s request, emails show – READ

The National Institutes of Health deleted information from public view about COVID-19 genetic sequencing during the pandemic at the request of researchers in Wuhan, China.

March 31, 2022 – Vanity Fair: “This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy – Following grant dollars from Dr. Anthony Fauci to Peter Daszak – a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one. The Jesse Bloom story – READ, TIMELINE

March 30, 2022 – PrePrint – A probabilistic approach to evaluate the likelihood of artificial genetic modification and its application to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant by Hideki et al (on Sept 5, 2022 tweeted paper to be accepted by peer review, but journal to be kept secret!) – PAPER, TWEET, Dr Kory – GETTR

March 29, 2022 – UncoverDC: Just-Released Docs Reveal NIH Deleted COVID Data For Wuhan Researcher – READ

“An eye-opening 238 pages of just-released documents from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disclose that in June 2020—at the request of researchers at China’s Wuhan University—the NIH deleted information about COVID-19 genetic sequencing.”

March 22, 2022 – NY Post: Despite a manipulated media, the COVID lab leak has not been ‘debunked’ – by Nicholas Wade – READ

March 2022 – Australias’ National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) : Gain-of-Function Research Review Report – PDF, READ, CREDIT, Report commissioned by Hon Greg Hunt MP, [the same MP who gave Australia Provisional Registration! – TIMELINE]

“Over the last 10 years, the Australian Government has funded or conducted 17 research projects that were identified in this review as gain-of-function research that could increase the harmfulness of an infectious agent to humans”
“Vaccines are exempt from control if they are in a pharmaceutical formulation that is licensed by, or has marketing or clinical trial authorisation by, a regulatory authority.” – CREDIT

March 3, 2022 – NPR: Striking new evidence points to Wuhan seafood market as the pandemic’s origin point – Was it a few raccoon dogs…or a lone red fox – ARCHIVE

“Over the weekend, an international team of scientists published two extensive papers online, offering the strongest evidence to date that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in animals at a market in Wuhan, China.”
“Scientists who weren’t involved in the research papers are calling the new data “very convincing” and a “blow” to the lab-leak theory”
“Neither of the papers provides the smoking gun — that is, an animal infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at a market” – just photos of potential animals!

March 2, 2022 – Judicial Watch: Fauci Agency Records Show China Failed to Provide Key COVID Info – READ

February 28, 2022 – Science: Do three new studies add up to proof of COVID-19’s origin in a Wuhan animal market? – Preprints unlikely to end debate over how SARS-CoV-2 began the pandemic, but some scientists say lab-leak hypothesis has taken a “blow” – ARCHIVE

2 Preprints (now published in Science) all by Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Robert Garry, Michael Worobey et al:
- Science: The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic – READ, Preprint Feb 26, 2022 – READ
- Science: The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2 – READ, Preprint Feb 26, 2022 – READ
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market by Chinese – READ

February 3, 2022 – Taibbi Substack: TK Mashup: The Lab Leak “Conspiracy Theory” – WATCH, SUBSTACK, Trump’s Lab Leak “Conspiracy Theory” – WATCH, BACKUP

February 2022 – NSABB meeting – the NIH show slides with revised definitions of gain-of-function research; either “Dual Use Research Of Concern (DURC)” or emerging pandemic potential pathogens “ePPP‘s”. – TIMELINE

January 24, 2022 – The Highwire: FAUCI’S FOLLIES – WATCH

As a day of legal reckoning approaches for Fauci, his international counterparts are coming into focus more than ever. Peter Daszak, Jeremy Farrar, Francis Collins and others are facing increased scrutiny for a potential lab-leak cover-up and suppression of a scientific debate early into the Covid outbreak.

January 23, 2022 – City-Journal: A Covid Origin Conspiracy? – Newly released emails make more plausible the contention that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins presided over the suppression of the lab-leak theory for political reasons – by Nicholas Wade – READ, NY Post – READ

January 21, 2022 – Epoch Times Kash’s Corner: Top Scientists Who Pushed ‘Natural Origins’ Received $50 Million from NIAID? – WATCH

January 20, 2022 – Zero Hedge: COVID Lab-Leak Whitewash Has Been ‘The Death Of Science’ Says Professor Who Found ‘Unique Fingerprints’ – READ

January 19, 2022 – Kanekoa Substack: Was Peter Daszak Working For The Central Intelligence Agency? – An EcoHealth Alliance whistleblower steps forward. – READ, WATCH

On January 12, 2022 Dr. Andrew Huff who was an Associate Vice President at EcoHealth Alliance made a public statement (on Twitter) in which he claimed, Peter Daszak, the President of EcoHealth Alliance, told him that he was working for the CIA.

January 17, 2022 – Hannity: JORDAN TAKING DOWN FAUCI: GOP Majority Will ‘Definitely’ Investigate, ‘He Knew It Came from a Lab’ – READ, WATCH, Rep. Jim Jordan – TWEET

January 11, 2022 – Epoch Times: Fauci was told privately by key scientists that COVID-19 natural origin was “highly unlikely” newly redacted emails confirm – READ, OTHER

2021

December 31, 2020 – AP: China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins – READ

“A bat research team visiting [southern China bat infested min shaft] recently managed to take samples but had them confiscated, two people familiar with the matter said. Specialists in coronaviruses have been ordered not to speak to the press.”

December 28, 2021 – Arkmedic’s blog: How to BLAST your way to the truth about the origins of COVID-19 – …” Prashant Pradhan (a wonderful, honest and brave genomics scientist) raised the possibility back in February 2020 that the SARS-Cov2 virus was man made. ” – READ

How the four “inserts” described in Pradhan’s Feb 2020 paper showed definitively that the SARS-CoV-2 genome had to have been man-made – REF
`BLAST is the NCBI/NIH (aka US government) repository for genomic and proteomic sequences,

December 7, 2021 – Judicial Watch: New Fauci Agency COVID Records Reveal Information about NIH Research into the Coronavirus – READ, ARTICLE, Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Show Peter Daszak, EcoHealth and US Institutions Worked with China’s Military in Researching Coronavirus – CREDIT

“grant application appears to describe “gain of function” research involving RNA extractions from bats, experiments on viruses, attempts to develop a chimeric virus and efforts to genetically manipulate the full-length bat SARSr-CoV WIV1 strain molecular clone.”

December 15, 2021 – Journal of Genetics and Genomics: Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant – PAPER

December 1, 2021 – Sky News Australia: Tucker Carlson: What Really Happened in Wuhan (EXCLUSIVE) – with Shari Markson from Sky News Australia – Mr Carlson discusses issues with decisions made by Dr Anthony Fauci and his role in funding controversial research in Wuhan, where the disease was first discovered. – WATCH

November 18, 2021 – Science: Dissecting the early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan- Elucidating the origin of the pandemic requires understanding of the Wuhan outbreak – READ

Which shows “the initial cluster of Covid-19 cases in Wuhan was located on the opposite (left) bank of the Yangtze River from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is commonly supposed to be the pandemic’s epicenter according to the “lab-leak” theory.” – REF

November 18, 2021 – The Hill: Scientist claims first known COVID-19 case was Wuhan market vendor – READ

“Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, wrote in a piece published in the journal Science that a female seafood vendor who worked at the live animal market in Wuhan and became ill on Dec. 11, 2019, was likely the first known case of COVID-19.”

November 18, 2021 – Science Magazine: Dissecting the early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan by Michael Worobey – READ

November 15, 2021 – The Ethical Skeptic: China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018 – READ

“There is a critical path of query and dependency necessary and sufficient in prosecuting this problem from a deductive perspective. The questions which compose this pathway are exhibited in detail within this article….”

October 29, 2021 – CNN: US Intelligence community releases full declassified report that does not determine origin of Covid-19 – READ

October 29, 2021 – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today released a declassified Intelligence Community assessment on COVID-19 origins. – READ, REPORT, ARCHIVE, OTHER

October 22, 2021 – Vanity Fair: In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan – READ

October 21, 2021 – Science: NIH says grantee failed to report experiment in Wuhan that created a bat virus that made mice sicker- EcoHealth Alliance violated terms of grant, according to letter to House Republicans – READ

“An ongoing controversy over what constitutes virology research that is too dangerous to conduct—and whether the U.S government funded studies in China that violated a policy barring funding for such risky research—has taken a new turn.”
“U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed in a letter sent yesterday to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through a U.S.-based nonprofit in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.”

October 20, 2021 – NIH admits to funding risky coronavirus research in Wuhan – TIMELINE, LETTER

Fox News: NIH acknowledges US funded gain-of-function at Wuhan lab, despite Fauci’s denials – READ

October 12, 2021 – The Megyn Kelly Show: Pre-Pandemic Infections and the Origins of COVID-19, with Dr. Richard Muller – WATCH

September 27, 2021 – The Highwire: THE INVESTIGATION INTO COVID-19’S ORIGIN TAKES NEW TWIST – WATCH, ARCHIVE, BITCHUTE

Tony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, the Wuhan Lab, “chimeric” viruses, gain of function research, airborne nanoparticle release…this story has it all as newly discovered documents lay out a shocking roadmap that even DARPA Refused to engage with. Is this the latest smoking gun in the Covid-19 lab origins story?

September 28, 2021 – Sky News Australia: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What Really Happened in Wuhan by Sharri Markson – special investigation into the origins of COVID-19 reveals what really happened in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic. – WATCH

September 23, 2021 – The Highwire Ep 234: THE INVESTIGATION INTO COVID-19’S ORIGIN TAKES NEW TWIST – Tony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, the Wuhan Lab, “chimeric” viruses, gain of function research, airborne nanoparticle release…this story has it all as newly discovered documents lay out a shocking roadmap that even DARPA Refused to engage with. Is this the latest smoking gun in the Covid-19 lab origins story? – WATCH, FULL

September 20, 2021 – Sky News: The lab leak, the missing scientists, the cover-up: Piecing together ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan’ – documentary by award-winning journalist Sharri Markson details the evidence COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab – READ, Tucker Carlson interview – WATCH

September 16, 2021 – NZ Herald: Chinese defector Wei Jingsheng claims he warned US of Covid months before pandemic declared – Re Sharri Markson documentary “What really happened in Wuhan?” – READ, OTHE

September 14, 2021 – NY Post: China’s most famous defector to America warned US intelligence agencies of coronavirus in 2019 by Sharri Markson – Chinese defector Wei Jingsheng – READ

In November 2019 – six weeks before China admitted there was an outbreak in Wuhan, Wei Jingsheng, the father of China’s democracy movement and famous defector to America, warned US intelligence agencies of a a mysterious new virus in China, spreading at the time of the World Military Games in Wuhan held between 19 and 27 October 2019

September 11, 2021 – Gateway Pundit: President Trump Reveals that Dr. Fauci Never Told Him that He Was Funding a Virology Lab in Wuhan – READ, but once Trump learnt the US was funding China research, he ended it.

September 8, 2021 – Senator Dr Roger Marshall: Sen. Marshall Explains COVID Origins Timeline – WATCH, READ

Gain of Function means when you purposely give more function to a virus
Senator Dr Roger Marshall

September 6, 2021 – CHINA.ORG.CN: US investigation into COVID-19 origins used as geopolitical weapon against China: media – ARCHIVE

September 3, 2021 – The Highwire: ICAN TURNS UP THE HEAT ON LAB ORIGIN CONTROVERSY – FOIA requests and legal cases against government agencies, to help uncover whether American scientists were involved in gain-of-function viruses at the Wuhan lab – WATCH, BACKUP

As China tries to blame the United States for the SARS -CoV-2 lab leak, here in the U.S., the ICAN legal team continues to file FOIA requests and legal cases against government agencies, to help uncover whether American scientists were involved in gain-of-function viruses at the Wuhan lab.

August 30, 2021 – CAPAC Chair Statement on Release of Unclassified Summary of COVID-19 Origins Report –READ

“Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released an unclassified summary of the Intelligence Community assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 virus. The full classified report is the result of a 90-day investigation by US intelligence agencies requested by President Biden to bring us closer to a definitive conclusion on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. While the results of the investigation remain inconclusive, CAPAC urges against using anti-China rhetoric that will continue to fuel anti-Asian violence.”

August 27, 2021: Director of National Intelligence (DNI) | Press Release: Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origins – READ, Summary Report – PDF, ARCHIVE

August 26, 2021 – CHINA.ORG.CN: US should invite WHO to probe coronavirus origins at Fort Detrick, UNC – ARCHIVE

August 25, 2021 – Uncover DC: Biden Probe Into COVID Origins: AFL Sues State Dept. for Answers – READ

August 17, 2021 – Epoch Times | Truth Over News: China Pressured WHO Investigators to Dismiss the Lab Leak Theory – WATCH, EXCERPT

The World Health Organization’s March 2021 report said a lab leak was extremely unlikely. – REPORT
The organization’s lead investigator, Peter Ben Embarek, said there should be no further investigation of the lab leak theory. He stated that a lab leak could not explain the introduction of the virus to the human population, and he claimed that his investigative team had taken a rational and objective approach in reaching those conclusions.
Embarek also said that the Chinese government was highly cooperative and never pressured him to remove anything from his report. Everything Embarek said was a lie—and we have his own words to prove it.

August 2021 (Source?) DR MICHAEL MCDOWELL – Explains the true agenda behind the creation of COVID-19 – WATCH

July 24, 2021 – Dinesh D’Souza: How Coordinated Is the Effort to Cover-Up Covid? – Two groups of people are openly suppressing the truth about the origins of Covid-19: the Chinese Communist Party, and the Democratic Party – ARCHIVE

July 14, 2021 – Uncover DC: Fauci’s Emergency Teleconference: The Players (Jeremy Farrar, Sir Patrick Vallance, Kristian Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Jr., Christian Drosten, Mike Ferguson, Marion Koopmans, Prof. R.A.M. (Ron) Fouchier, Edward (Eddie) Holmes, Stefan Pöhlmann, Andrew Rambaut, Paul Schreier) – ARTICLE

“Two weeks ago, House Republicans on the ‘Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis,’ frustrated with Democrats‘ refusal to schedule an official hearing despite having the platform to do so, held their own informal committee meeting to examine the origins of COVID-19—specifically whether it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. “
Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) testimony concerning approx. 13 hours of email activity (Jan 31, 2020 to Feb 1, 2020) between Dr. Anthony Fauci and 11 of his international colleagues (all heavily or completely redacted) revolving around gain-of-function research and the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and to discuss and organise a confidential teleconference with each other.
In particular an email sent by Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist received by Fauci at 10:32 pm on Jan. 31, 2020 concerning a Science ARTICLE. Andersen—not convinced the article makes a solid case for an evolutionary origin of the virus—replied to Fauci, saying:

“…Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”
Anderson email Jan 31, 2020

Two hours later Fauci sent an email to his deputy, Hugh Auchincloss with an attachment titled: “Baric, Shi et al. – Nature medicine – SARS Gain of function.pdf” and warning he has work to to in the AM.
“Notably, absent altogether from the planning, and subsequent teleconference is then head of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx, then-Assistant Secretary of HHS, Dr. Giroir, and anyone from President Trump’s coronavirus task force.”
On March 17, 2020 “Eddie“, “Bob” and Anderson et al published the paper The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 stating “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”! – READ

On July 8, 2021, many of the teleconference participants published The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review. – Concluding the virus is likely zoonotic but that a lab accident “cannot be entirely dismissed.” – READ

July 11, 2023 – NY Post: Scientists downplayed COVID lab leak theory for fear of ‘s–tshow’ if China was deemed responsible for releasing virus: panel – READ

July 8, 2021 – Sydney University: Leading biologists publish review of SARS-CoV-2 origin evidence – [Australia’s] Edward Holmes and colleagues publish review article – READ

Zenodo: “The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review” – Holmes et al – READ
- “concluding that overwhelmingly its most likely origin is zoonotic“
- [Holmes et al in Jan 31, 2020 in email to Fauci believed the virus was engineered!- (see July 14, 2021) – REF]

July 8, 2021 – BMJ | Feature: The covid-19 lab leak hypothesis: did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign? “A conspiracy to label critics as conspiracy theorists” by Paul Thacker, investigative journalist – READ, includes a timeline.

“A conspiracy to label critics as conspiracy theorists””For most of 2020, the notion that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, was treated as a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory.“
…researchers who were funded to study viruses with pandemic potential launched a campaign labelling the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory.”” – a leader in this campaign Peter Daszak
November 2020 FOI request by watchdog group US Right To Know – emails revealed “Daszak’s behind-the-scenes role in orchestrating the statement in the Lancet”
May 26, 2021 Facebook lifts ban on posts referencing the lab leak hypothesis

July 5, 2021 – GOP-led hearing on the COVID-19 origins: Jim Jordan Takes Aim At Fauci During COVID-19 Origin Hearing – WATCH

June 30, 2021 – 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 (hundreds of animals culled) – WATCH, EXCERPT, BITCHUTE

June 30, 2021 – Tucker Carlson Today: Chinese whistleblower exposes COVID-19’s origins on ‘Tucker Carlson Today’ – Dr. Yan says her husband is in the US and is working with the CCP to make her ‘disappear’ – WATCH

June 28, 2021 – National Pulse: “Hunter Biden Invested In A Pandemic Firm Collaborating With Daszak’s EcoHealth and The Wuhan Lab.” – READ

June 26, 2021 – Politico: Facebook no longer treating ‘man-made’ Covid as a crackpot idea – Facebook’s policy tweak arrives as support surges in Washington for a fuller investigation into the origins of Covid-19. – READ

June 25, 2021 – MIT Technology Review: They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. – Chan is a postdoc in a gene therapy lab at the Broad Institute, …affiliated with both Harvard and MIT. – READ, CREDIT, Alina Chan Jun 8, 2021 – TWEET

June 24, 2021 – Nature: In silico comparison of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-ACE2 binding affinities across species and implications for virus origin– Piplani, Nikolai Petrovsky et al – READ, Rand Paul – CREDIT,

National Pulse: Virus is ‘Highly Adapted’ for Human (Not Bat or Pangolin) Infection – READ

This is almost proof-positive that this [the SARS-CoV-2 virus] was manipulated in the lab
Senator Rand Paul on The Highwire Ep 362

June 24, 2021 – PLOS Pathogens: Dating first cases of COVID-19 by Roberts et al – READ, TIMELINE, Forbes: Covid-19 May Have Started Spreading As Early As October 2019 In China, U.K.-Led Study Suggests – READ

The model suggests a likely timing of the first case of COVID-19 in China as November 17, 2019

June 22, 2021 – BioRxiv pre print: Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic by Jesse Bloom – READ, National Pulse – READ

Bloom “had recovered genomic sequencing data of the virus from early cases, which had been removed from the U.S. government’s database” which NIH confired the samples were deleted at the request of Wuhan researchers. – REF

June 21, 2021 – Washington Examiner: Wuhan lab collaborator recused from Lancet’s COVID-19 origins investigation – READ, The Lancet Commission Dec 2020 document – PDF ARCHIVE

Daszak, who was listed as a chairman of the origin’s task force as early as December 2020, is now “recused from Commission work on the origins of the pandemic”
NIH has provided $15.2 million to Daszak’s NY-based EcoHealth Alliance over the years, with $3.74 million towards bat coronavirus emergence research.

June 21, 2021 – Human Events: Lab Lies: A Conflict of Interest for Dr. Daszak – ARCHIVE, Later that day Daszak was recused – ARCHIVE

June 15, 2021 – Fox News: Former CDC director Redfield explains why he believes COVID-19 emerged from lab, WHO ‘compromised’ – Redfield argued COVID-19’s efficient human-to-human spread contradicted behavior of other deadly coronaviruses with similar profiles – READ & WATCH , NY Post – READ

June 14, 2021 – King’s College London: Fifty-nine labs around world handle the deadliest pathogens – only a quarter score high on safety – ” the risk of future pandemics originating from research with dangerous pathogens is real.” – READ, Credit Dr Campbell – WATCH

The 59 labs are: “Spread over 23 countries, the largest concentration of BSL4 labs is in Europe, with 25 labs. North America and Asia have roughly equal numbers, with 14 and 13 respectively. Australia has four and Africa three. Like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, three-quarters of the world’s BSL4 labs are in urban centres.”

June 14, 2021 – The Highwire: FAUCI’S HOUSE OF CARDS FALLS – The COVID-19 lab origin theory, long deemed a conspiracy, is now seriously being considered, thanks to thousands of Anthony Fauci’s emails obtained through FOIA requests. Now published scientists that dismissed this theory are changing their tune. – WATCH

June 13, 2021 – Sky News Australia: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab (description under video) – by Sharri Markson – WATCH, TIMELINE, READ

June 10, 2021 – Washington Post: The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. – ARCHIVE

June 6, 2021 – Fox News: Steve Hilton: Resurfaced video of Dr. Fauci proves he lied about gain-of-function experiments and the Wuhan lab (revealing 2012 footage of Dr Fauci defining Gain-of-function) – WATCH

June 5, 2021 – Fox News’ Tucker Carlson uses a FOIA, obtained by ICAN containing 3000 new pages of Anthony Fauci’s emails, to expose the ‘lies’ of the beleaguered director of the NIAID – (coronavirus origins) – , WATCH
Tucker: Two-faced Fauci pushed draconian measures despite data – ORIGINAL

June 4, 2021 – The Print: Wuhan lab’s deleted data, unreported pneumonia cases — challenges to ‘natural’ origins of Covid – Research group called DRASTIC is trawling the internet, comparing notes & putting up a concerted resistance to Chinese claims, supported by WHO, that SARS-CoV-2 has natural origins. – READ

June 4, 2021 – NY Post: US-linked Chinese military scientist filed patent for COVID vaccine just after contagion emerged- raising fears the shot was being studied even before the pandemic became public, according to a new report. – Zhou Yusen, PLA soldier who worked along side WIV filed patent on February 24, 2020 – READ

June 4, 2021 – Amazing Polly: The Grand Scam of “Emerging Diseases” and its relationship to the Lab Leak story, Gain of Function on viruses. – WATCH

June 3, 2021 – Vanity Fair: 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. – READ, ARCHIVE

June 2, 2021 – Epoch Times: Fauci Team Scrambled in January 2020 to Respond to Lab Leak Allegations, [3000 FOIAed] Emails Show – READ

June 2, 2021 – The Trumpet: Could the whole pandemic actually trace back to Dr. Anthony Fauci? – READ

Rewind to the April 30, 2020, White House press conference when a reporter asked President Trump: “Have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of this virus?” The president responded: “Yes, I have. Yes, I have. And I think the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves, because they’re the public relations agency for China.”
For a YEAR following this statement the MSM “have taken turns vociferously, creatively, smugly, incessantly blasting people for believing in a deranged, dangerous, conspiracy theory”.

June 1, 2021 – The Federalist: WaPo Corrects Story From Last February Claiming COVID Lab Leak Theory Was ‘Debunked’ – READ, The Feb 17, 2020 article re Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) – HERE, Story archive Feb 16, 2020 – ARCHIVE

May 31, 2021 – UnHerd: How Facebook censored the lab leak theory Its latest crackdown on ‘misinformation’ proves the tech giant hasn’t learnt its lesson – READ

May 31, 2021 – Fox News: Reporters admit dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory in part because Republicans proposed it – READ

May 29, 2021 – Daily Mail: Fauci defended ‘gain of function’ research that genetically modifies pathogens in 2012 paper and said benefits ‘outweigh’ the risks of a potential pandemic – READ, OTHER

May 28, 2021 – The Highwire: “FACT CHECKERS” EAT CROW ON COVID ORIGIN – WATCH

As liberal media rabidly attacked, discouraged and stifled any mention Covid-19 might have come from the lab in Wuhan, Politifact deemed it a conspiracy theory. But now as a cascade of evidence suggests, everyone, including Fauci is having to reverse their stance on the origins of the virus

May 28, 2021 – The Sun: SECRET PROBE US official who took part in Wuhan Covid lab probe says it found almost NO evidence virus came from ‘natural’ source – READ

May 28, 2021 – MeaWW: Who is David Asher? Ex-Trump official says Covid-19 didn’t come from bats: ‘It’s ridiculous’ – READ

Former State Department official David Asher, who was part of the US probe into the Wuhan lab, said Covid-19 virus did not originate from bats
“Covid-19 is widely believed to have originated from bats and it reportedly made its way into humans via wet markets in China. That’s the leading theory for the disease, but over the past year, the Donald Trump administration has been singing a different song.” …”WHO widely supports the belief that the virus originated from bats.”

May 28, 2021 – Fox News: Coronavirus ‘optimized for transmission between humans’ in way never before seen: Former State Dept official – David Asher: ‘Not probable’ that virus originated from nature – READ

“It came out of nowhere, and it was optimized for transmission between humans in a way that no bat-borne coronavirus ever had been. So what’s up? A pangolin gets mated with a bat gets mated with a furin cleavage site of a human being? How does that happen? It’s not probable. In fact, it was statistically 1 in 13 million to 1 in 13 billion, when I talked to our bio-statisticians,” he told The Story – WATCH

May 27, 2021 – Daily Caller: Media Downplayed Or Ignored These 8 Lab Leak Theory Facts For Over A Year – READ

“Numerous media outlets have published stories within the last week confirming the legitimacy of the COVID-19 lab leak theory after denigrating the hypothesis as a baseless conspiracy for the first year of the pandemic.“

i.e Washington Post “fact-checker” from May 2020 – TWEET

Facts: [read article] and see TIMELINE

China arrested doctors for telling the truth about COVID-19
Wuhan’s top bat-based coronavirus researcher said she lost sleep worrying the virus came from her lab.
China’s ‘Bat Woman’ expressed shock that COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan
Chinese researcher published — then deleted — a study concluding COVID-19 probably originated from Wuhan lab in February 2020
Deadly viruses have a history of escaping from Chinese laboratories
China deleted early samples of COVID-19 [actually SARS-CoV-2]
Key American defender of Wuhan Lab had a clear conflict of interest
Prominent American virologist said lab leak theory shouldn’t be dismissed

May 27, 2021 – New York Post: State Dept. COVID investigator: ‘Ridiculous’ to say virus was natural – READ

The belief that the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology gained traction over the weekend when the Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers there sought hospital treatment in November 2019.

May 27, 2021 – Fox News- America Reports: Former State Department official: Probe into COVID origins found almost no evidence supporting natural origin – ‘The data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source’ – WATCH, America Reports – TWEET

“A government probe last year into the origins of the coronavirus found practically no evidence COVID-19 originated from nature, former State Department official David Asher told Fox News on Thursday.”
“We were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community, including the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID organization, there was almost no evidence that supported a natural, zoonotic evolution or source of COVID-19,”
The probe was led out of the State Department’s arms control and verification (AVC) bureau and initially launched at the request of former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before ending” May 26, 2021

May 27, 2021 – BBC: Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously – READ, ARCHIVE

“Because reports swirling around the US media have raised fresh concerns over the lab-leak theory. And some scientists who were once skeptical of the idea have expressed fresh openness to it.”…”A classified US intelligence report – saying three researchers at the Wuhan laboratory were treated in hospital in November 2019, just before the virus began infecting humans in the city – began circulating in US media this week.”

May 27, 2021 – BBC: Covid: Biden orders investigation into virus origin as lab leak theory debated – READ

“Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, has maintained he believes the virus was passed from animals to humans, though he conceded this month he was no longer confident Covid-19 had developed naturally.”

May 26, 2021 – Tucker Carlson: Why did the White House shut down an investigation into COVID origins? – Fauci, mainstream media, the White House have changed their tune on the origins of the coronavirus – WATCH

May 26, 2021 – CNN Politics: Pompeo-led effort to hunt down Covid lab theory shut down by Biden administration over concerns about quality of evidence – READ

May 26, 2021 – MeaWW: Did Covid virus escape from Wuhan institute? How lab-leak theory of origin moved from fringe to center – In recent weeks, widely held suspicions have gone from being brushed off as fringe conspiracy theories to gaining more credibility every day – READ

“House Republicans recently released a bombshell report outlining “significant circumstantial evidence” that the novel coronavirus originated in a bio-safety level 4 (BSL-4) lab in Wuhan, China. The report also alleged that Washington “may have funded or collaborated” in research that possibly led to the outbreak. In recent weeks, widely held suspicions have gone from being brushed off as fringe conspiracy theories to gaining more credibility every day.”
“However, this latest development would come as a shock to anybody who had been following news coverage surrounding the origins of the virus.”

May 26, 2021 – USA Today: Biden tells intelligence agencies to step up probe of COVID-19’s origins, including theory of Wuhan lab leak – READ [potential lab-leak no longer a “conspiracy theory”]

May 26, 2021 – Facebook update – they will no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is man-made i.e. Facebook lifts ban on posts referencing the lab leak hypothesis! – READ, ARTICLE

May 26, 2021 – The White House: Statement by President Joe Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19 – READ, ARCHIVE

May 26, 2021 – Fox News: Biden State Department quietly ended team’s work probing COVID origin – The Biden State Department ended an inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that was investigating whether the virus stemmed from a leak out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Fox News has confirmed. – READ

May 26, 2021 – Sen. Marco Rubio Press Release: Rubio Questions Fauci on Why He Downplayed COVID Lab Release Theory in 2020 – READ, WATCH

Qu: Why did you dismiss the lab leak theory as credible? “I did not dismiss it, I just said there is a high likelihood that this was an animal occurrance” says Fauci – EXCERPT
Qu: What is the “high likelihood” based upon? A: “The historical basis for pandemics evolving naturally from an animal reservoiur is extremely strong…no one knows 100% at this point” says Fauci – EXCERPT
A year ago social media posts/accounts were deleted for even suggesting potential lab origin, now Fauci is not ruling out a potential not-natural origin!

May 26, 2021 – Forbes News: Senate Cheers After Passing Rand Paul’s Amendment Banning Gain-Of-Function Research In China – WATCH

May 25, 2021 – NY Post: Media, ‘experts’ utterly discredited themselves by suppressing the lab-leak theory – “There was a “scientific consensus,” they told us.”… – READ

May 25, 2021 – Washington Post by Glenn Kessler: Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible – READ, CONTEXT, 2020 – TWEET

May 25, 2021 – NY Post: Fauci admits ‘modest’ NIH funding of Wuhan lab but denies ‘gain of function’ – READ

May 24, 2021: The Hill: Fauci bombshell: ‘Not convinced’ COVID-19 developed naturally outside Wuhan lab – READ

May 24, 2021 – Washington Times: COVID-19 origin dissent ‘suppressed’ by intelligence community, House GOP report finds – READ

May 24, 2021: CNN: New information on Wuhan researchers’ illness furthers debate on pandemic origins – READ

“A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence.”

May 23, 2021 – The Wall Street Journal: 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 – READ, Patients Zero – TIMELINE

“Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.”

May 21, 2021- Summit News: Politifact Forced to Pull ‘Fact-Check’ That “Debunked” Lab Leak Origin of COVID – Politifact has been forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19 after more prominent voices suggested the explanation was a reasonable possibility. – READ, OTHER TWEET

May 21, 2021 – The Australia: China Covid lab ‘in first cluster’ – LINK, TWEET, ARCHIVE

“US intelligence has now been declassified, along with information from public sources, has credibly confirmed that three workers from Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick in early to mid- November 2019, prior to the official start of the pandemic”

May 21, 2021 – The Highwire: PRESSURE CONTINUES ON VIRUS ORIGIN – WATCH

Last week, the undeniable evidence surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV2 officially led us to the conclusion that this deadly pathogen was man-made.
Look back at the paper trail that links the virus to Tony Fauci’s US funded gain-of-function research and see even more politicians standing up to the CDC and NIH for the real answers as to its origin.

May 20, 2021 – – NY Post: House Republicans: Evidence shows COVID-19 originated from Chinese lab leak – READ, Lab leak theory looking more credible – READ

May 19, 2021 – NIH: Statement on misinformation about NIH support of specific “gain-of-function” research – READ

May 19, 2021 – HPSCI Republicans Release Interim Report on Origin of COVID-19 Outbreak – “COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology” – LINK, REPORT

“Between October 7, 2019, and October 24, 2019, uncorroborated media reports indicate there was no cellphone activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“Autumn [US Sept-Nov] 2019 – Researchers inside the WIV become sick.”

May 17, 2021 – National Pulse: EXC: Fauci’s Wuhan Lab Friends Held ‘No Compromise’ Communist Study Sessions. – READ

“The Wuhan Institute of Virology has removed several articles revealing its deep links to the Chinese Communist Party, including receiving awards from the regime for its efforts to boost “party spirit” and pledging implementing party goals “without compromise” during communist study sessions.”

May 13, 2021 – The Highwire: IS COVID-19 A BIO-WEAPON? – WATCH

The origins of #Covid19 are becoming increasingly clear, and Dr. Richard Fleming, cardiologist and researcher walks Del through a shocking paper trail surrounding the SARS-CoV2 virus and its link to Tony Fauci and US funded gain-of-function research.

May 13, 2022 – PrePrint: The altered entry pathway and antigenic distance of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant map to separate domains of spike protein by Peacock et al – READ

May 9, 2021 – Fox News: Sen. Johnson calls out Fauci after NIAID funded Wuhan lab research: Why were we ‘cooperating with China?’ – Claims about gain-of-function research have been controversial – READ

May 9, 2021 – NY Post: The theory that COVID-19 escaped from a lab may not be so far-fetched – by Nicholas Wade an author and former science writer for The New York Times – READ

May 7, 2021 – Fox News: Wuhan ‘lab leak’ coronavirus theory in focus as House Republicans demand answers – “Congressional Republicans are leading “comprehensive” investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the possibility of an “accidental” leak from a Wuhan lab.” – READ

May 3, 2021 – Medium | Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid — Following the Clues – Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? – READ, Also published HERE, The article that awakened Sen. Rand Paul to potential lab leak – WATCH

“the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons,…it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus,” said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of the California Institute of Technology, often known as CalTech. “These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2,” – REF

May 2, 2021 – Medium: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues – Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade – READ (written April 30,2021 but couldn’t get published)

This was the article that awakened Sen. Rand Paul to potential lab leak of the virus – Highwire – EXCERPT

April 28, 2021 – National Review: The Biden Admin Discounts Lab-Leak Theory amid New WHO Push – READ

April 1, 2021 – The Highwire: COVID ORIGIN CONTROVERSY REIGNITED – WATCH

After extreme censorship of those questioning the origins of SARS-CoV2, one of the world’s highest ranked virologists goes public with his personal opinion on whether the virus came from a seafood market or escaped the Wuhan lab in China.

March 30, 2021 – Guardian: Covid probably passed to humans from bats via other animal, finds WHO report – Much-delayed report from team that visited Wuhan all but rules out lab leak theory – READ

“Experts believe the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes the Covid-19 disease originally came from bats.”
“Meanwhile, claims promoted by the former US president Donald Trump’s administration that the virus escaped from a research lab were judged “extremely unlikely””
FAST FORWARD Sept 5, 2024 – WHO still don’t know origins – TWEET

March 29, 2021 – NY Post: Joint report from China, WHO says animals were likely source of COVID-19 – A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press” leaving many unanswered questions – READ

March 28, 2021 – 60 Minutes: What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus – an interview with Peter Daszak et al – READ

“Daszak dismissed the lab leak hypothesis …when he admitted he took Wuhan lab workers at their word and claimed their answers seemed convincing. He also said he didn’t see evidence of a Chinese cover-up. Daszak criticized the Biden administration for skepticism of WHO’s findings and defended China on Communist Party-linked outlets.” – REF

March 26, 2021 – NY Post: Ex-CDC Director Robert Redfield believes COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab – Robert Redfield told CNN on Friday that it was his “opinion” that SARS-CoV-2 — the new coronavirus responsible for killing 2.7 million people globally — did not evolve naturally. – READ, Tweet by Scientific America’s Editor Laura Helmuth – TWEET

“On CNN, former CDC director Robert Redfield shared the conspiracy theory that the virus came from the Wuhan lab.” – by Biden endorser publication Scientific America’s Editor Laura Helmuth- TWEET, CREDIT

March 22, 2021 – JD Rucker Show: Evidence points to Covid-19 leaking from experiments on an ANTIDOTE for their bioweapon – WATCH

March 22, 2021 – USA Today: Could an accident have caused COVID-19? Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory shouldn’t be dismissed – READ

World Health Organization expert team recently made international headlines dismissing as “extremely unlikely” the possibility that a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, could have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic…” Their report expected this week
Safety lapses happen in US labs, why not labs in other countries?

March 21, 2021 – The JD Rucker Show: Evidence points to Covid-19 leaking from experiments on an ANTIDOTE for their bioweapon – WATCH, Various reports, most of which have been buried, combine to paint a very evil picture of the true origins of Covid-19. – READ

March 10, 2021 – Washington Examiner: Biden team gives nod to Trump State Department fact sheet on Wuhan lab – READ

March 4, 2021 – New York Times: Letter Seeking International Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus – READ

Following the recent WHO report, some scientists are calling for an investigation independent of WHO into the source of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
The establishment of a specific work group tasked with ascertaining the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) published its first preliminary report in June 2022. – REF

February 16, 2021 – NPR: Virologist: WHO Team Found No ‘Credible Link’ Between Wuhan Labs, COVID-19 – READ

February 16, 2021 – The JD Rucker Show – Steve Mosher: China’s ‘gain of function research’ bioweapons program created the Wuhan Flu – It’s quickly becoming taboo to mention “China” and Covid-19 in the same sentence. Chinese Communist Party control over media and Big Tech make it dangerous to discuss the topic, especially when blame is placed on the CCP. But China expert Steve Mosher is beholden to the truth, as is NOQ Report. – READ, WATCH

February 15, 2021 – American Greatness: Winnipeg to Wuhan – Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg and the two scientiss Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, who hails from Tianjin, China and her husband Keding Cheng

Part one: Tracing China’s pathogen pipeline to the world – READ
Part Deux – The coverup goes viral – READ
Part Trois – China turns an American ally into a research center for biological weapons – READ

February 15, 2021 – US Right to Know: Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins – READ, The Lancet Feb 19, 2020 – LETTER, GRAPHIC

February 14, 2021 – AXIOS: China accuses U.S. of “pointing fingers” over COVID probe – READ

February 13, 2021 – Washington Examiner: Biden administration has ‘deep concerns’ about WHO investigation into coronavirus origins – READ

February 13, 2021 – Daily Mail: WHO backtracks on Covid Wuhan lab: Theory that virus emerged in laboratory has NOT been dismissed, health chief insists – as it emerges China WON’T hand over raw data on early infections – READ, Sky News – READ, War Room – EXCERPT

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today confirmed “all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and study“
Mission head Peter Embarek previously said the Wuhan lab theory was ‘unlikely’
It also emerged China ‘refused to provide investigators with raw Covid data‘

February 12, 2021 – Washington Post: Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway.- The spread of the unverified assertions by Chinese scholar Li-Meng Yan, widely dismissed as ‘flawed,’ show how vulnerable scientific sites are to misuse and misunderstanding [Claims by CCP sponsored Dr Gallo] – READ, Bannons War Room: Dr. Yan on WHO covering up the true origin of COVID – WATCH

February 10, 2021 – CNN: A WHO expert snaps at Biden over an investigation into Covid-19’s origins – “Peter Daszak, a member of WHO’s investigative team” – READ, Dasak – TWEET

February 10, 2021 – World Health Organisation: WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part – Joint WHO-China study: 14 January – 10 February 2021 – OFFICIAL, REPORT, ARCHIVE – Updated April 6, 2021 – REPORT, Epoch Times – WATCH

February 9, 2021 – Mike Pompeo slams WHO for ‘bending a knee’ to Xi Jinping as investigation dismisses Covid-19 lab leak theory – The WHO said that there was not enough evidence to support a hypothesis that the virus escaped from the Chinese biosafety laboratory in Wuhan – READ

Pompeo doubts “the World Health Organization’s (WHO) findings that it was “extremely unlikely” that Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan laboratory in China.”

February 9, 2021 – Forbes: Wuhan Lab Theory ‘Extremely Unlikely’ Covid-19 Source, WHO Concludes—Correcting A Trump White House Claim – READ, Guardian – READ

Peter Ben Embarek, who chaired the WHO team, said the theory that the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab is “extremely unlikely” and does not merit further study, pointing to a lack of work on similar viruses “anywhere in the world” and a strong set of lab procedures making it “very unlikely that anything could escape from that place.”
Embarek said the most likely hypothesis remains the virus entering humans through an intermediary species…the group was unable to identify a natural animal reservoir for the virus and further research would be needed.
[May 2023 – WHO fired him over sexual harassment claims – REF]

February 9, 2021 – Washington Post: WHO team in Wuhan dismisses lab leak theory, continues hunt for intermediary coronavirus host – READ (back tracks 4 day after)

February 9, 2021 – WHO: LIVE from Wuhan : Media briefing on #COVID19 origin mission – TWEET (note timezone could have dates out by one day)

WHO team say it is “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged – REF

February 8, 2021 – WION: Joe Biden, along with the world, awaits WHO probe report on origin of coronavirus – READ

Microbiologist and infectious disease expert Dominic Dwyer is also in Wuhan. He is a member of the WHO probe team. Dwyer believes it could take years before the world gets any answers about the origins of the virus.

February 6, 2021 – CANADA CBC: Scientists let go from National Microbiology Laboratory amid RCMP investigation – Action taken nearly two years after Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng were escorted from Canada’s only Level 4 lab in Winnepeg – READ, CREDIT

February 5, 2021 – The Highwire: MSM finally questions COVID origin – WATCH

Mainstream media is starting to report on questions about the origins of SARS-CoV2 and their connection to Anthony Fauci exactly one year after The HighWire was heavily censored by video and social media platforms for bringing the same facts to light about where this virus may have originated from.

February 1, 2021 – Fox News: Steve Hilton (Part 2) unveils new evidence linking COVID-19 origins to US-funded research in China – breaks down the evidence linking COVID-19 to U.S. funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. – WATCH

January 29, 2021 – Zenodo: A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived by Steven Quay – A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived. (CAUTION) – READ

January 28, 2021 – France 24: WHO team to begin Wuhan Covid-19 probe as China warns US against politicising it – ARTICLE

January 28, 2021 – World Health Organisation (WHO) finally launch a team to investigate SARS-CoV-2 origin – (after they finished quarantien) – TIMELINE

January 27, 2021 – Fox News: WHO refuses to confirm coronavirus originated in China as Biden strengthens ties – Biden has promised US to rejoin the WHO – READ

January 25, 2020 – Fox News: PART 1 of Steve Hiton’s special investigation into the origins of the coronavirus – WATCH, TWEET, READ

January 26, 2021 – The Washington Times: Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence – READ

U.S. intelligence findings recently declassified by the State Department provide fresh evidence for the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

January 21, 2021 – South China Morning Post: WHO investigators visit Wuhan seafood market as search for origins of coronavirus continues – READ

January 17, 2021 – News.com.au: America’s ‘proof’ COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab – The United States claims it has explosive new evidence that proves COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan research lab and is demanding action. – READ

January 15, 2021 – US Department of State: Ensuring a Transparent, Thorough Investigation of COVID-19’s Origin – READ

January 15, 2021 – US Government: Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology – READ

From report – “Three elements about COVID-19’s origin that deserve greater scrutiny”:

lllnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
Research at the WIV
Secret military activity at the WIV

January 14, 2021 to 10 February 2021 – WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part – READ

January 11, 2021 – Forbes: China Finally Green Lights WHO Investigation Into Coronavirus Origins As Daily Covid-19 Cases Spike To Five-Month High – READ, Which China had blocked 5 days earlier – READ

January 10, 2021 – Washington Examiner: Devin Nunes seeks intelligence on coronavirus origins and Wuhan lab escape theory – READ

January 6, 2021 – Washington Examiner: ‘Growing body of evidence’ coronavirus might have escaped from Wuhan lab: US official – READ

“For nearly a year, speculation has swirled about whether the novel coronavirus outbreak began in a Wuhan wet market or was actually accidentally leaked from a lab in the Chinese city. China has done its utmost to thwart investigations into the origins of the virus…”
“..World Health Organization [is] planning a belated mission to China in the coming days.”

“There is a growing body of evidence to say that a laboratory leak or accident is very much a credible possibility,” … “Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story.”
Matthew Pottinger

January 5, 2021 – Washington Examiner: WHO issues rare rebuke to China for dragging its feet letting experts in – READ

2020

December 16, 2020 – BBC: Covid: WHO to investigate virus origins in China’s Wuhan – READ

“A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said”

December 14, 2020 – US Right to Know: New emails show scientists’ deliberations on how to discuss SARS-CoV-2 origins (Barac, Daszak) – READ

December 14, 2020 – US Right to Know: Items from coronavirus expert Ralph Baric‘s emails – READ

December 2020 – The Lancet COVID-19 Commission – Task Force Statement – Task Force on the Origins and Early Spread of CVODI-19 and One Health Solutions to Future Pandemic Threats – PDF ARCHIVE – To be headed by Peter Daszak! – COVID-19 Commission website – ARCHIVE, LIVE, [June 2021 Daszak recused – ARTICLE]

November29, 2020 – The Guardian: A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story – Reports in state media signal an intensifying propaganda effort to place the birth of the virus in other countries – “discovered on packaging of frozen food imports” – READ

November 25, 2020 -Yahoo News: WHO names line-up for international team looking into coronavirus origins – READ, OTHER

Disease ecologist Peter Daszak of US group EcoHealth Alliance
Microbiologist Dominic Dwyer of Westmead Hospital in Australia
Epidemiologist Vladimir Dedkov of the Pasteur Institute in Russia
John Watson, a former deputy chief medical officer for Britain’s Department of Health
Farag El Moubasher of Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health
Danish virologist Thea Fischer of Nordsjællands Hospital
Ken Maeda of Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Vietnamese scientist Hung Nguyen
Virus hunter Fabian Leendertz of Germany’s Robert Koch Institut
Dutch researcher Marion Koopmans

November 2, 2020 – Coronavirus: WHO and Chinese experts launch origins mission – online – READ
Members of the international team were selected by the WHO and finalised in consultation with Beijing. The team’s first meeting was held on October 30, 2020 virtually.

November 24, 2020 – US Right to Know: Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins – READ

November 18, 2020 – US Right to Know: EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 – READ

November 10, 2020 – Biden targets virus as his White House transition begins – President-elect Joe Biden is making clear that his incoming administration is singularly focused on reining in the coronavirus pandemic (worth putting here!) – READ

October 23, 2020 – PrePrint: Single source of pangolin CoVs with a near identical Spike RBD to SARS-CoV-2 – Chan et al – READ

September 21, 2020 – Washington Examiner: House GOP report says China cover-up and WHO failures worsened coronavirus pandemic – READ,

HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINORITY STAFF REPORT – 90-page report, titled The Origins of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Including the Roles of the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization – REPORT

September 2020: Infection, Genetics & Evolution: Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2 – Balloux et al – READ, TIMELINE

Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometimes around 6 October 2019 – 11 December 2019.

September 14, 2020 – NY Post: Chinese virologist posts report claiming COVID-19 was made in Wuhan lab
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, posted a paper on the the open-access repository website Zenote, that she claims shows how SARS-CoV-2 could be “conveniently created” in a laboratory setting in six months. – READ,

The paper: Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route – READ

September 11, 2020 – NY Post: Chinese virologist claims COVID was made in lab — but US studies don’t agree – Whistleblower Dr. Li-Meng Yan, “It comes from the lab — the lab in Wuhan and the lab is controlled by China’s government.” – READ, WATCH

September 14, 2020 – Zenodo: Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route (WARNING) by Yan, Li-Meng et al – READ

July 25, 2020 – SCMP: China’s ‘bat woman’ calls for Donald Trump to apologise over claim coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab – READ, ARCHIVE

Shi Zhengli tells Science magazine that US President should say sorry for linking the research institute to the Covid-19 pandemic
Researcher also hits out at US government for stopping funding of joint project with New York-based EcoHealth Alliance

July 13, 2020 – Minervanett: The evidence which suggests that this is no naturally evolved virus – “It is observations on the spike protein of the Sars-Cov-2 virus that leads Sørensen and his co-authors to believe that the virus has originated in a laboratory.” – READ, Dr Lynn Flynn – CREDIT

June 27, 2020 – Reuters: Coronavirus traces found in March 12, 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows – READ

June 9, 2020 – The Guardian – Opinion by Peter Daszak: “Igonore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn’t created in a lab” – READ

June 8, 2020 – ABC News: Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier: Researchers – a surge in cars at hospitals may indicate outbreak in fall [mid-Sept. 2019] – READ

July 7, 2020 – CDC: Possible Bat Origin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 – READ

June 5, 2020 – Fox News interviews FBI Director Christopher Wray [vs March 2023] – EXCERPT

June 1, 2020 – Scientific American: 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 – READ

May 14, 2020 – The Last American Vagabond: Head of the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec – READ, CREDIT

Kadlec is Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) – he failed to disclose all his “potential conflicts of interest” – that being his ties to the founder of Emergent Biosolutions, Fuad El-Hibri.
Senate committee demand transparency following Rick Bright‘s whistleblower complaint – READ, Letter – PDF
(Reminder Dr Rick Bright of BARDA sabotaged Hydroxychloroquine )

May 5, 2020 – BBC: Coronavirus: Chinese state media take aim at US ‘lab theory’ – Chinese state media has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of lying, after he said there was “enormous evidence” the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan. – READ

May 5, 2020- The Guardian: Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from lab – No current evidence to suggest coronavirus leaked from Wuhan research lab, agencies say – READ

May 5, 2020 – RT: Five Eyes spies have NO EVIDENCE that coronavirus emerged from Wuhan lab, report suggests in U-turn from previous leaks – READ

The leak coincided with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “who claimed there was a “significant amount of evidence” that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” The UK Downing Street has resisted assigning blame and Beijing has strongly denied any involvement in the spread of the illness.

May 5, 2020 – National Geographic: Fauci: No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab – READ

May 5, 2020 – CNN: China pushes back against US claims that coronavirus originated from Wuhan lab – READ

“US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday in an interview with ABC that there was “enormous evidence” Covid-19 originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan”
“Scientists around the world have condemned conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin, pointing to studies that suggest it originated in wildlife.” reports CNN i.e. The Lancet statement (See Fauci emails released 2021)
“The Global Times newspaper, which is owned by the Communist Chinese regime, claimed that Pompeo had “stunned the world with groundless accusations.” re lab leak [ref]

May 5, 2020 – CNN: Intel shared among US allies indicates virus outbreak more likely came from market, not a Chinese lab (FIVD EYES) – READ, CREDIT

“These intelligence briefings were in direct contradiction to the claim made at the time by President Trump that he had seen evidence that gave him a “high degree of confidence” COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan.” – REF

May 4, 2020 – The Daily Telegraph: Coronavirus NSW: Dossier lays out case against China bat virus program by Shari Markson– READ, ARCHIVE

May 4, 2020 – “May 4 bombshell report about the Five Eyes’ coronavirus document, Australian Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson pointed out [based on a “leaked” copy of the 15-page joint agency report] that in 2014, the U.S. withdrew funding to China due to fear over “controversial experiments that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread dangerous viruses.” The concern about Chinese laboratories has spanned U.S. presidential administrations!” – REFERENCE

May 4, 2020 – CNN: US government report assesses China intentionally concealed severity of coronavirus – Mike Pompeo – READ

May 3, 2020 – “May 3, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence” that covid-19 “came from that laboratory in Wuhan.”” – REFERENCE,
May 3, 2020 – NY Post: Pompeo says ‘enormous evidence’ shows coronavirus began in Wuhan lab – READ

May 2, 2020 – Washington Examiner: Majority of US spy agencies believe the coronavirus escaped from Wuhan lab – READ

May 2, 2020 – Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Majority Of Intelligence Community Agencies Believe Coronavirus Leaked Out Of Wuhan Lab, Senior Intel Official Says – READ

May 2, 2020 – Fox News: Leaked ‘Five Eyes’ dossier on alleged Chinese coronavirus coverup consistent with US findings, officials say – READ

“A research dossier compiled by the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, that reportedly concludes China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus pandemic, is consistent with U.S. findings about the origins of the outbreak so far, senior U.S. officials told Fox News on Saturday.”
Scientist Shi Zhengli, features prominently in the dossier

May 2, 2020 – PJ Media: DAMNING ‘Five-Eyes’ Intel Report: China Suppressed, Destroyed Coronavirus Evidence, Endangered Other Countries – READ

“According to The Saturday Telegraph, the intelligence report revealed that the Australian government trained and funded a team of Chinese scientists who worked at the Wuhan laboratory that went on to genetically modify deadly coronaviruses that could be transmitted from bats to humans and had no cure.
The Australian government holds that the virus most likely originated in a Wuhan wet market but there is a 5 percent chance that it leaked from a laboratory. U.S. intelligence, on the other hand, believes that it is more likely the coronavirus leaked from the lab, although that does not mean it was genetically engineered.”

May 2, 2020 – Town Hall: LEAKED: International Intelligence Report Uncovers China’s Known Coronavirus Lies – READ

When that news broke a few weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China for failing to alert the world about the Wuhan coronavirus.
Australia is still under the impression that the coronavirus began in a wet market in Wuhan.

May 2, 2020 – Ted Cruz Thread refuting Glenn Kessler’s WaPo claim of “doubtful” by presenting plausible FACTS – TWEET

May 1, 2020 – J of Molecular Biology: Phylogenetic Analysis and Structural Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Reveals an Evolutionary Distinct and Proteolytically Sensitive Activation Loop – Jaimes et al – READ, CREDIT

“SARS-CoV-2 falls into a subgroup of coronaviruses that includes SARS-CoV-1 and coronaviruses that infect bats and pangolins.” – REF

May 1, 2020 – Washington Post: Did coronavirus accidentally escape from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful. | The Fact Checker – WATCH [ note Glenn’s “180” on May 25, 2021 – TWEET, ARTICLE]

May 1, 2020 – BBC: Coronavirus: Trump stands by China lab origin theory for virus – READ

May 1, 2020 – Sky News Australia: SPECIAL REPORT: Evidence builds coronavirus came from a Chinese lab – WATCH, LIST

May 1, 2020 – BBC: Coronavirus: Trump stands by China lab origin theory for virus. Report on the April 30, 2020 White House press conference with President Trump – READ

April 30, 2020 – NY Post: Trump claims he has seen evidence linking coronavirus to Wuhan lab – READ

April 30, 2020 – US DNI PRESS RELEASE: Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19 – READ, CREDIT

“The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.”

April 30, 2020 approx. – MSNBC Nicolle Wallace: “Donald Trump [is] turning his intelligence community to now investigate a conspiracy theory about COVID coming from a lab in Wuhan.” – TWEET, Montage WATCH, Tucker Carlson – CREDIT

April 28, 2020 – Newsweek: Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research – just last year the NIAID led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and others to fund gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses – READ

The NIH research consisted of two parts. The first part began in 2014 and involved surveillance of bat coronaviruses, and had a budget of $3.7 million…completed in 2019. – 1R01AI110964-01 – GRANT 1
A second phase of the project, also began 2014 and included additional surveillance work but also gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance. -2R01AI110964-06 – GRANT 2 The NIH canceled this project April 24, 2020 [ref]

April 27, 2020 – Politico: Trump cuts U.S. research on bat-human virus transmission over China ties – The National Institutes of Health on Friday told EcoHealth Alliance, the study’s sponsor for the past five years, that all future funding was cut. – READ, Fauci: “I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it.” – READ

April 23, 2020 – George Webb: CNN Debate LIVE – Origins of the Corona Virus – ARCHIVE

April 23, 2020 – Medium: Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research by Yuri Deigin – READ

“The fact that the deeper you dive into the research activities of coronavirologists over the past 15–20 years, the more you realize that creating chimeras like CoV2 was commonplace in their labs.”
“The first person to take a serious look at the origins of the SARS2 virus was Yuri Deigin, a biotech entrepreneur in Russia and Canada. In a long and brilliant essay, he dissected the molecular biology of the SARS2 virus and raised, without endorsing, the possibility that it had been manipulated.” Nicholas Wade – REF

April 22, 2020 – NPR: Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence – READ [NPR Feb 2023 – READ] Tucker Carlson Feb 2023 – CREDIT

Scientists dismiss the idea that the coronavirus pandemic was caused by the accident in a lab. They believe the close interactions of people with wildlife worldwide are a far more likely culprit.

“But the Trump administration has been raising the possibility that a lab accident in China could be behind the start of the coronavirus.”

April 20, 2020 – Town Hall: Wuhan Lab Director Chimes In On Theories About How the Coronavirus Began – Of course,Yuan Zhiming, the Director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, told CGTN, a regime-owned news outlet, that the idea [of lab leak] is a “conspiracy theory.” – READ

April 19, 2020 – Peter Daszak, Director of EcoHealth Alliance sent an email to Dr Fauci, thanking him for helping “dispel the myths” around COVID origins – TIMELINE

April 17, 2020 – Zero Hedge: COVID-19 Is A Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says “Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab” (Luc Montagnier) – ARCHIVE

April 17, 2020 – Secretary Michael R. Pompeo With Hugh Hewitt of The Hugh Hewitt Show – READ, SOURCE

“…the Chinese Communist Party has not permitted the world’s scientists to go into the Wuhan Institute of Virology to “evaluate what took place there, what’s happening there even as we speak.””

April 17, 2020 – PJ Media: CORRECTION: Obama’s NIH Helped Bankroll Wuhan Lab Where Coronavirus May Have Originated. Trump’s Stopping It – READ

“During a White House press briefing, a reporter claimed the Obama administration gave the virology lab in Wuhan $3.7 million in grant money in 2015.
Various news reports, relying on the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project, also reported similar numbers. This is incorrect. The National Institutes of Health gave roughly $3.4 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research group, over the course of 6 years, including under the Trump administration.
Of that $3.4 million, less than $600,000 was sent to the lab in Wuhan, EcoHealth Alliance spokesman Robert Kessler told PolitiFact.”

April 16, 2020 [first published] – Jamie Metzl Website: Origins of SARS-CoV-2 – READ

Metzel is “a former member of the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing” – REF
“It’s a game changer if it can be proven that Hu got sick with COVID-19 before anyone else. That would be the ‘smoking gun.’ Hu was the lead hands-on researcher in Shi’s lab.” [June 14, 2023 – Hu is named one of 3 Patient Zero]

April 16, 2020: CNN: US explores possibility that coronavirus spread started in Chinese lab, not a market – READ

April 16, 2020: CNN: Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin – READ

April 16, 2020 – The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Intelligence Sifts Evidence for Origins of Coronavirus – Officials reviewing possibility of natural transmission as well as lab accident theory, but have reached no conclusions – READ

U.S. intelligence agencies are assessing whether the coronavirus that has caused a global pandemic escaped from a Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan, according to senior Trump administration officials.

April 14, 2020 – The Washington Post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses – READ

“Even under strong selective pressure, neutral S mutations survive, which makes 29 consecutive N mutations quite unlikely.” – TWEET

April 14, 2020 – Fox News: State Department leaked cables renew theories on origin of coronavirus – WATCH

April 12, 2020 – Daily Mail: REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated – READ

April 9, 2020 – Gatway Pundit: Chinese Doctor Shi Zhengli Ran Coronavirus Research in Wuhan After US Project Was Shut Down by DHS in 2014 for Being Too Risky — PRIOR LEAK KILLED RESEARCHER – READ, READ2

After the US research project was shut down, Dr. Shi continued her coronavirus research in Wuhan, China
he HHS in 2014 sent a letter to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where they announced they were going to defund the program. – Dr. Ralph S. Baric was identified in the letter.

April 8, 2020 – Gatway Pundit: EXCLUSIVE: More Evidence China Institute of Virology Knew of the China Coronavirus in November 2019 – as reported by National Review READ

In November of 2019 Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China was hiring individuals for an ecological study of bat migration and virus transmission
On December 24, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a second job posting.

April 7, 2020 – Epoch Times | China in Focus: 1st documentary movie on the origin of CCP virus, Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus – WATCH, ARCHIVE

April 6, 2020 – Zero Hedge: US Army Colonel (Ret.): “Yes, The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Have Originated In A Chinese Lab…” – ARCHIVE

April 6, 2020 – CNN: How did coronavirus break out? Theories abound as researchers race to solve genetic detective story – READ

Experts at odds over wet-market theory
Virus hunters zeroing in on bats
Did it jump from bat to human, or to another animal first? (zoonotic)
Most experts push back on lab leak theory

April 3, 2020 – The National Review: The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs – “Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos, contends he has identified the source of the coronavirus” information for public records – READ

“The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China indeed posted a job opening on November 18, 2019, “asking for scientists to come research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats.” – (Chinese) JOB1
On December 24, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a second job posting – (Chinese) JOB2
In his YouTube video, Tye focuses his attention on a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology named Huang Yanling: “Most people believe her to be patient zero, and most people believe she is dead.” – On Feburary 16, 2020 the CCP put out an officially rejection of the rumours – (Chinese) HERE
Huang Yanling picture does not appear above her 2012 graduate name ( 黄燕玲 2012级硕士研究生 ), along with two other names.- HERE. Yanling’s hyperlink page is blank – HERE

April 3, 2020 – Mathew Tye: I Found The Source of the Coronavirus – “After 2 weeks of painstaking searching, I refute the claim that the Coronavirus started outside of China” – Deep dive into Shi and WIV jobs Nov 2019 etc- WATCH, link SOURCE

April 2, 2020 – Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Expert Says Virus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab – Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC, said Thursday that it’s possible that COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab. – READ

April 2020 – Swiss Policy Research: On the Origin of SARS Coronavirus 2 – A comprehensive summary of facts concerning the origin of the novel coronavirus (updated content) – READ

April 2020 – Jounral Antiviral: The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade – Coutard et al – READ, READ

March 26, 2021 – AXIOS: Ex-CDC director says he believes coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab – Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told CNN he believes the coronavirus “escaped” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it was spreading as early as September or October of 2019 — though he stressed that it was his “opinion.” – READ & WATCH

March 26, 2020 – Science News: No, the coronavirus wasn’t made in a lab. A genetic analysis shows it’s from nature- Scientists took conspiracy theories about SARS-CoV-2’s origins seriously, and debunked them – READ [referencing the very same scientists Kristian Andersen who told Dr Fauci in an email the genetic sequence looked “engineered” i.e. “made in a lab”]

March 20, 2020 – Unlimited Hangout: Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak by Whitney Webb – READ

“DARPA recently spent millions on research involving bats and coronaviruses, as well as gene editing “bioweapons” prior to the recent coronavirus outbreak. Now, “strategic allies” of the agency have been chosen to develop a genetic material-based vaccine to halt the potential epidemic.”

March 19, 2020 – The Atlantic: China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World – Beijing is successfully dodging culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus. – READ

March 17, 2020 – Nature Medicine paper The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 – by Andersen, Rambout, Lipkin, Holmes and Garry – READ, TIMELINE

Pre-print dated February 16, 2020. (see July 14, 2021 above prelude to the Teleconference, the virus did look “engineered”)
[Feb 2023 – Tucker Carlson – Tony Fauci helped edit this paper, and signed off on funding Wuhan coronavirus research – REF]

“Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
Article quote

“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”!
*** This above article became the “SOURCE”or “fuel” for “fact checkers” social media platforms and government officials to shut down/censor any discussion that challenged the official narrative, i.e. the hypothesis suggesting there is potential for the virus to have originated from a lab in Wuhan. Labeling such discussion as “disinformation” or “conspiracy theories” (See Feb 19, 2020 for first) ***
Dr Fauci used this paper to “prove” the virus came out of nature, yet did not disclose his role in shaping the paper or in funding the authors via the organisation he heads up. [Fauci FOIA emails]
One of the authors, Dr Ian Lipkin, received $3 million in 2021 funding from Fauci [@4:03] and has connections to Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance.

FASTFORWARD: The July 11, 2023 – US origins subcommittee – “revealed that the journal Nature initially rejected the final draft of “The proximal origins of SARS-CoV-2″ because it did not discount the lab-leak theory strongly enough. After revising to strengthen the language denying the lab-leak theory, the paper was accepted into Nature Medicine on Feb. 27 and published on March 5.” [dates wrong?] – WashExaminer – READ

March 14, 2020 – Greanville Post: COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US (sourced) – READ, ARCHIVE

“MERS was originally believed to have come from a patient in Saudi Arabia in June of 2012, but later and more thorough studies traced it back to an earlier hospital outbreak of unexplained pneumonia in Jordan in April of [2012].” 2 months earlier.
- 2013 Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Hijawi et al: Novel coronavirus infections in Jordan, April 2012:
  epidemiological findings from a retrospective investigation – PDF

March 14, 2020 – Newsweek: China Traces Coronavirus to First Confirmed Case, Nearly Identifying ‘Patient Zero’ – “The first confirmed case of someone suffering from COVID-19 in China can be traced back as far as November 17 last year, according to local reports.” – READ, TIMELINE

March 14, 2020: CNN: Chinese diplomat promotes conspiracy theory that US military brought coronavirus to Wuhan – READ

“A prominent Chinese official has promoted a conspiracy theory that the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China — and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought”
“Zhao Lijian republished a video of Robert Redfield, the director for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, addressing a US Congressional committee on March 11” 2020 – TWEET, HEARING, CSPAN

March 13, 2020: Military Medical Research: The origin, transmission and clinical therapies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak – an update on the status – READ

March 13, 2020 – The US Government’s National Security Arm Took Charge During the Covid Response – REF

On March 13, 2020 it was found that the National Security Council (NSC) was officially made in charge of the US government’s COVID-19 policy and response because of
1) the belief that this virus came from a lab leak, and
2) the vaccine would the biosecurity countermeasure pushed by the same people as the only solution

March 11, 2020 – Scientific American: 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 – ORIGINAL, UPDATED, WATCH

“could they have come from our lab?”
Shi Zhengli

“Shi was an early recruit of that worldwide effort, and both Daszak and Wang [CSIRO BSL4 Geelong & Singapore] have since been her long-term collaborators. But how the civets got the virus remained a mystery.
Two previous incidents were telling: Australia’s 1994 Hendra virus infections, in which the contagion jumped from horses to humans, and Malaysia’s 1998 Nipah virus outbreak, in which it moved from pigs to people. Both diseases were found to be caused by pathogens that originated in fruit-eating bats. Horses and pigs were merely the intermediate hosts.”
“In many bat dwellings Shi has sampled, including Shitou Cave, “constant mixing of different viruses creates a great opportunity for dangerous new pathogens to emerge,” says Ralph Baric”

“With growing human populations increasingly encroaching on wildlife habitats, with unprecedented changes in land use, with wildlife and livestock transported across countries, with their products transported around the world, and with a sharp increase in both domestic and international travel, new disease outbreaks of pandemic scale are a near mathematical certainty. This had been keeping Shi and many other researchers awake at night—long before the mysterious samples landed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on that ominous evening last December.”

“…the first round of tests showed that samples from five of seven patients contained genetic sequences known to be present in all coronaviruses. Shi instructed her team to repeat the PCR tests and, at the same time, sent the samples to another laboratory to sequence the full viral genomes.”
“Shi breathed a sigh of relief when the results came back: none of the sequences matched those of the viruses her team had sampled from bat caves. “That really took a load off my mind,” she says. “I had not slept a wink for days.””
“By January 7, 2020 the Wuhan team determined that the new virus had indeed caused the disease those patients suffered—a conclusion based on results from PCR anaylsis, full genome sequencing, antibody tests of blood samples and the virus’s ability to infect human lung cells in a petri dish.” Their finding were published on February 3, 2020 in Nature.
The novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 was “96 percent identical to that of a coronavirus the researchers had identified in horseshoe bats in Yunnan”.
Peter Daszak who funds the coronavirus research in Wuhan said “It’s crystal clear that bats, once again, are the natural reservoir,” yet he “was not involved in the study.”
“Given that the virus seems fairly stable and that many infected individuals appear to have mild symptoms, scientists suspect the pathogen might have been around for weeks or even months before the first severe cases raised alarm.“
The local wildlife markets sell a wide range of animals that could serve as a viral host includine bats, civets, pangolins, badgers and crocodiles – these locations are said to be a perfect viral melting pot.

The Wuhan outbreak is the sixth one caused by bat-borne viruses in the past 26 years:

1994 – Hendra
1998 – Nipah
2002 – SARS
2012 – MERS
2014 – Ebola

The researchers found that the new coronavirus enters human lung cells using a receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). In the long run, the team plans to develop broad-spectrum vaccines and drugs against coronaviruses [pan-coronavirus vaccines] deemed risky to humans. “The Wuhan outbreak is a wake-up call,” Shi says.
Daszak’s team has estimated that there are as many as 5,000 coronavirus strains waiting to be discovered in bats globally. Shi is planning a national project to systematically sample viruses in bat caves—with much greater scope and intensity than her team’s previous attempts.”

March 4, 2020 – Global Reserch: China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US? – Japan, China and Taiwan Reports on the Origin of the Virus – Larry Romanoff – READ

February 28, 2020 – Weibo video: Taiwan Virologist Suggests the Coronavirus Originated in the US – Wuxin Jianying’s Weibo – WATCH, source CREDIT

February 24, 2020 – Zhou Yusen, PLA Chinese military soldier/scientist who worked alongside Wuhan Institute of Virology filed patent for COVID vaccine – June 2021 article NY Post – READ, The Australian – READ

RETROSPECT: “The patent — lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA” — was filed just five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus,” Zhou died under mysterious circumstances May 2020
“This is something we have never seen achieved before, raising the question of whether this work may have started much earlier,” Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University told the paper.

February 24, 2020 – New York Times: China’s Ban on Wildlife Trade a Big Step, but Has Loopholes, Conservationists Say – READ

“A wild animal market in Wuhan may have been where the outbreak of Covid-19 began, and pangolins, in particular, have been proposed as a possible host of the virus before it jumped to people.”
On February 24 China announced a permanent ban on wildlife consumption and trade except for research, fur or medicinal purposes—”which will stamp out an industry worth $75 billion and put approximately15 million people out of jobs, according to a 2017 report commissioned by the Chinese Academy of Engineering” – SOURCE

February 23, 2020 – People’s Daily: Re Asahi News: Japanese TV report sparks speculations in China that COVID-19 may have originated in US – READ, CREDIT

A report from a Japanese TV station that suspected some of the 14,000 Americans died of influenza may have unknowningly contracted the coronavirus has gone viral on Chinese social media, stoking fears and speculations in China that the novel coronavirus may have originated in the US.
“…it is unknown whether Americans who have already died of the influenza had contracted the coronavirus, as reported by TV Asahi”
“The story sparked various conspiracy theories on Chinese cyberspace”

February 23, 2020 – CGTN: New study further proves Wuhan seafood market not the source of COVID-19 – ARCHIVE CREDIT

A recent study conducted by a group of Chinese scientists have found further genome evidence to prove that the seafood market in Wuhan is not the source of the novel coronavirus – a claim first made in a paper published on The Lancet.
“The study, led by researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Agricultural University and Chinese Institute for Brain Research, was published on ChinaXiv on Saturday in a pre-print version without peer review.”
- ChinaXiv: Decoding evolution and transmissions of novel pneumonia coronavirus using the whole genomic data – Yu and Richard T Corlett et al

February 21, 2020 – Preprint (Now in Nature): Rapid reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 using a synthetic genomics platform by Thao et al – READ, May 4, 20202 – NATURE, “it took [this] Swiss team less than a month to create a synthetic clone of CoV2”. – CREDIT

February 20, 2020 – Alex Jones Show: SMOKING GUN: China Bought Weaponized Wuhan Virus From U.S. – an interview with Dr. Francis A. Boyle linking the weaponized Wuhan virus to the U.S. – WATCH, TRANSCRIPT, CREDIT

February 20, 2020 – The media picking up on The Lancet letter – Example: ARTICLE,

February 20, 2020 Isolation and Characterization of 2019-nCoV-like Coronavirus from Malayan Pangolins – Kangpeng Xiao et al – READ, ARCHIVE

February 19, 2020 – The Epoch Time: WHO Joins US in Saying There’s No Evidence New Virus is a Biological Weapon – READ

Richard Brennan, a regional emergency director with the WHO, told reporters that there is “no evidence that this virus was produced in a laboratory, and certainly no evidence that it was produced as a biological weapon.”
“Bats are one animal suspected to have hosted the virus. If that’s the case, experts believe that bats spread the disease to another animal before it was spread to humans, according to the WHO official.”
“We believe it’s a zoonosis. We don’t believe it’s been fabricated in any laboratory anywhere,” he added. “This is one of the rumors that we need to snuff out very, very early.”

February 19, 2020 – Science: Scientists ‘strongly condemn’ rumors and conspiracy theories about origin of coronavirus outbreak – A statement in The Lancet assails misinformation about the possibility that COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan, China – READ

February 19, 2020 – The Lancet Correspondence: Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19 – READ by Peter Daszak, Christian Drosten, Jeremy Farrar, Hume Field, John S Mackenzie, et al, [Aug 2022 testimony – HERE]

“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”

27 international public health experts refuted and condemned the false claims of a lab origin in a statement published in the renowned medical journal The Lancet, saying that they were conspiracy theories. The scientists supported their claim with research findings that “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” [ref]
The Lancet statement by these “public health scientists” “effectively ended the debate over COVID-19’s origins before it began“. “This Lancet statement was not only signed but organized by a zoologist named Peter Daszak, who has repackaged U.S. government grants and allocated them to facilities conducting gain-of-function research—among them the WIV itself.” (see 2014 below) – ARTICLE,

February 18, 2020 – Nature: Identification of 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins in southern China – Edward C. Holmes et al – READ, PREPRINT

February 16-24, 2020 – WHO – Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – READ, TIMELINE

February 16, 2020 – Virological: The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 – pre-print published – READ, Published Nature Medicine March 17, 2020 – HERE [Crafting a paper so media has “proof” for their narrative of “see look, the virus comes from nature!”]

As referenced in February 19, 2020 The Lancet letter

Fast forward July 11, 2023 – US Origins Hearing on this paper – Hearing – HERE, Report –PDF

February 14, 2020 – Zero Hedge: Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds “Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan” – READ (the paper has since been removed)

“In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become China’s first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). …What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help.”

February 13, 2020 (accepted) – Emerging Microbes & infections Journal: No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2 – by Liu et al – READ, CREDIT

Shi Zhengli helped to secretly edit this essay [REF] which stated: “Currently, there are speculations, rumours and conspiracy theories that SARS-CoV-2 is of laboratory origin. Some people have alleged that the human SARS-CoV-2 was leaked directly from a laboratory in Wuhan where a bat CoV (RaTG13) was recently reported, which shared ∼96% homology with the SARS-CoV-2…”

February 13, 2020 – BioRxiv Preprint: Evidence of recombination in coronaviruses implicating pangolin origins of nCoV-2019 – Wong et al – READ, CREDIT

“Genomic analyses of nCoV-2019 determined a 96% resemblance with a coronavirus isolated from a bat in 2013 [BatCoV-RaTG13]; however, the receptor binding motif (RBM) of these two genomes share low sequence similarity. This divergence suggests a possible alternative source for the RBM coding sequence in nCoV-2019. We identified high sequence similarity in the RBM between nCoV-2019 and a coronavirus genome reconstructed from a viral metagenomic dataset from pangolins possibly indicating a more complex origin for nCoV-2019.”

February 13, 2020 – Virology Blog: Furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus glycoprotein – READ

February 11, 2020 – Dr Ian Lipkin stated in a private email accessed under Freedom of Information – @9:04

“…we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.” Which was not yet in the draft of Proximal Origin paper when Lipkin wrote this email. They were overwhelmed with coincidences – “circumstantial evidence”.
In addition in a Columbia Global Centres video [@8.39], Ian Lipkin admitted that he knew by December 15, 2019 that there was an outbreak in Wuhan! 16 days earlier than any public reporting by the Chinese.

February 10, 2020 – Antiviral Research: The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade – Coutard et al – READ, PDF

February 3, 2020 – Nature: A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin – Zheng-Li Shi et al – – READ, TIMELINE

“Samples from seven patients with severe pneumonia (six of whom are sellers or deliverymen from the seafood market), who were admitted to the intensive care unit of Wuhan Jin Yin-Tan Hospital at the beginning of the outbreak, were sent to the laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for the diagnosis of the causative pathogen..”

February 1, 2020 – Research Gate [now deleted]: The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus – by Botao Xiao on – READ, TIMELINE

Two Chinese scientist from separate universities on in Wuhan, co-authored a pre-print paper laying out reason they believer the virus probably originated from one of two labs in Wuhan. This paper seeded the lab origin theory and prompted the The Lancet letter signed by 27 [selected] authors and published February 19, 2020.

January 31, 2020 – Zero Hedge: Coronavirus Contains “HIV Insertions”, Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon – READ

“In “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag“, Indian researchers are baffled by segments of the virus’s RNA that have no relation to other coronaviruses like SARS, and instead appear to be closer to HIV. The virus even responds to treatment by HIV medications.” – This PAPER has since been withdrawn

January 31, 2020 – BioRxiv: Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag by Pradhan et al – ARCHIVE, has since been withdrawn, Smoking glove – READ

Arkmedic refrences this paper “proof” of lab origin – inserts which distinguish SARES-CoV-2 from known coronaviruses – HERE & HERE

January 31, 2020 – Science Magazine: Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins – Theories abound about how the virus that’s now rampant in China made its way from bats (almost certainly) to humans – READ, ARCHIVE

“These viral genomes are being intensely studied to try to understand the origin of 2019-nCoV and how it fits on the family tree of related viruses found in bats and other species.”
“Many analyses of 2019-nCoV’s sequences have already appeared on virological.org, nextstrain.org, preprint servers like bioRxiv, and even in peer-reviewed journals.”
“The role of Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, in spreading 2019-nCoV remains murky…”
“The viral sequences, most researchers say, also knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan”
The fact that up to 45% of the initially confirmed cases had no connection to the Wuhan seafood market “raises the possibility that the initial jump into people happened elsewhere“
Edward Holmes, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sydney …collaborated with the first group to publicly release a 2019-nCoV sequence.
“Until you consistently isolate the virus out of a single species, it’s really, really difficult to try and determine what the natural host is,” says Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research”
“Daszak and Shi’s group have for 8 years been trapping bats in caves around China to sample their feces and blood for viruses. He says they have sampled more than 10,000 bats and 2000 other species. They have found some 500 novel coronaviruses, about 50 of which fall relatively close to the SARS virus on the family tree, including RaTG13—it was fished out of a bat fecal sample they collected in 2013 from a cave in Mojiang in Yunnan province.”

“We cannot assume that just -nCoV because this virus from Yunnan has high sequence identity with the new one that that’s the origin,” …”If we don’t find the origin, it could still be a raging infection at a farm somewhere, and once this outbreak dies, there could be a continued spillover that’s really hard to stop. But the jury is still out on what the real origins of this are.”
Peter Daszak

“In the absence of clear conclusions about the outbreak’s origin, theories thrive…” the article stated!

[This Science article (according to Fauci’s FOI emails) prompted Lipkin (on of 5 “hand-picked scientists“) into action to cover up the lab origin theory through writing the “highly influential Proximal Origin paper in March 2020]

January 30, 2020 – The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection: Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak – by Whitney Webb – ARCHIVE

January 30, 2020 – Dr James Lyons-Weiler: On the Origins of the 2019-nCoV Virus, Wuhan, China – ARCHIVE, Article has been UPDATED

January 30, 2020 – CNBC: WHO declares China coronavirus that’s killed 171 a global health emergency – ARCHIVE, READ, News broke on The Highwire – CREDIT

January 30, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 148: CORONAVIRUS: WHAT THEY AREN’T TELLING YOU – WATCH

Watch @17:30 mark as Jefery Jaxen speaks to what is at the time known about bioweapons lab in the Wuhan area – what was in the media before the lab leak “fringe” “conspiracy theory” was “debunked
Breaking news – The WHO just declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) (@50:20), this will mobilise finance for countermeasure including vaccines – “its a great day for phama, they’re going to make a ton of money” –

January 30, 2020 – The Lancet: Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding – PAPER

January 30, 2020 – The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection: Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak – by Whitney Webb – ARCHIVE

January 29, 2020 – CGTN: Conflicting studies on source of coronavirus divide scientists – ARCHVIE

Theory 1: The seafood market may not be the source
Theory 2: Snakes as the intermediary host
Theory 3: Evidence washed away

January 29, 2020 – The Washington Post: Experts debunk fringe theory linking China’s coronavirus to weapons research – READ, ARCHIVE

January 28, 2020 – Popular Science: We’re still not sure where the novel coronavirus really came from – China’s wet markets don’t tell the whole story – READ, ARCHIVE

January 26, 2020 – The Washington Times: Coronavirus may have originated in lab linked to China’s biowarfare program – ARCHIVE, headline now changed – READ

January 26, 2020 – John Catsimatidis radio show – interview with Dr Anthony Fauci – LISTEN, Steve Bannon provides CONTEXT

“The American people should not be worried of frightened by this, its a very, very low risk to the United States….this is a virus that has emerged and jumped species from an animal reservoir…”
Dr Anthony Fauci

January 25, 2020 – Science Speaks: Global ID News – a project of Infectious Disease Society of America: UPDATE Wuhan coronavirus – 2019-nCoV Q&A #6: An evidence-based hypothesis, by Dr. Daniel Lucey and infectious disease physician. [linked to by Science Magazine article on 31st Jan] – ARCHIVE

“The incubation is unknown, but assumed to be 1-14 days based on extrapolation from SARS (~1-10 days) and MERS (~2-14 days) coronavirus incubation periods”
Rapid testing explains the spike in cases in Wuhan since January 18, 2020
“…the presumed rapid spread of the virus apparently for the first time from the Huanan seafood market in December did not occur. Instead [it is hypothesised] the virus was already silently spreading in Wuhan hidden amidst many other patients with pneumonia at this time of year.”

January 25, 2020 – BioRxiv: Complete genome characterisation of a novel coronavirus associated with severe human respiratory disease in Wuhan, China – Wu et al including Edward C. Holmes [from Australia and in Fauci’s emails] – READ

January 25, 2020 – Virilogical: Clock and TMRCA based on 27 genomes – nCoV-2019 genomes: Kristian Andersen post 347 – READ, CREDIT

Kristian Andersen references Andrew Rambaut –source

Dr Andrew Rambaut – co-author of the March 2020 Proximal Origin paper – July 2023 Congressional report refrences – PDF

January 25, 2020 – South China Morning Post: No link with seafood market in first case of China coronavirus, Chinese scientists revealed – READ

January 24, 2020 – Washington times: Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program – Virology institute there has China’s only secure lab for studying deadly viruse – READ, CREDIT, CREDIT

This article references Radio Free Asia – the first outlet to mention potential lab connection

January 23, 2020 – PrePrint BioRxiv: Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia outbreak in humans and its potential bat origin – Zhou, Shi et al – READ, peer reviewed Nature Feb 3, 2020 – READ

January 22, 2020 (published) – Journal of Medical Virology: Cross-species transmission of the newly identified coronavirus 2019-nCoV – Wei Ji et al – reference to snakes – READ

January 21, 2020 – Houston Chronicle | Opinion: U.S.-China relationship, good news with the bad amid public health response to new virus outbreak by James W. LeDuc – READ, LeDuc met with Anthony Fauci face-to-face 2 days later – CREDIT

January 20, 2020 – Virological: nCoV’s relationship to bat coronaviruses & recombination signals (no snakes) – no evidence the 2019-nCoV lineage is recombinant by David Robertson- READ, ARCHIVE

The article above speaks to – “A sequence analysis led by Wei Ji of Peking University and published online by the Journal of Medical Virology received substantial press coverage when it suggested that “snake is the most probable wildlife animal reservoir for the 2019‐nCoV. Sequence specialists [Robertson above], however, pilloried it.” [ref]

January 12, 2020 – The novel coronavirus genetic sequence is made public – TIMELINE, DATABASE

According to Scientific America the WIV team on January 7, 2020 had used the “full genome sequencing” and other factors to determine that “the new virus had indeed caused the disease those patients suffered”, China released it to the world 5 days later.

January 9, 2020 – Radio Free Asia (RFA) [US Owned]: Experts Cast Doubts on Chinese Official Claims Around ‘New’ Wuhan Coronavirus – READ, CREDIT

Alleged first mention of potential lab connection to new virus – before anyone died

January 4, 2020 – First Tweet suggesting possible the virus was a bioweapon – TWEET, ARCHIVE

2019

December 31, 2019 – The WHO was informed of cases of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in Hubei, China – TIMELINE

December 30, 2019 – Shi Zheng-Li’s Wuhan Institute of Virology had received patient samples to investigate – TIMELINE

September 12, 2019 – Records of the library of bat virus genetic sequences collected from both Yunnan and Laos were removed from 16 online databases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WHI) – READ

August 3, 2019 – The Frederick News-Post: Fort Detrick lab shut down after failed safety inspection; all research halted indefinitely – The CDC sent a cease and desist order in July 2019 – ARCHIVE

August 6, 2019 – New York Times: Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns – READ

“Research is currently on hold,” the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md…. A “cease and desist order” by CDC “because the center did not have “sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater” from its highest-security labs.” – Ebola research
The institute at Fort Detrick was part of the Federal Select Agent Program [ARCHIVE]. …”There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin.”
The problems date back to May 2018 – storms

April 2019 – Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Geographical structure of bat SARS-related coronaviruses – Ping Yu, Ben Hu, Zheng-Li Shi et al – READ, CREDIT

Note on June 14, 2023 Ben Hu, Yu Ping, along with Yan Zhu – are named Patients Zero for the pandemic outbreak!

February 22, 2019 – One Seat of YiXi: Shi Zhengli: Tracking the source of SARS [like a TedTalk] – WATCH, ARCHIVE, CREDIT, CREDIT

2018

April 4, 2018 – Nature: Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin – Zhou et al (with Daszak, Shi and Wang) – READ

Records of daily death toll on the four pig farms from 28 October 2016 to 2 May 2017 in Qingyuan county in Guangdong—60 miles from the site where the SARS outbreak originated were investigated and the cause of the illness, called swine acute diarrhea syndrome (SADS), turned out to be a virus whose genomic sequence was 98% identical to a coronavirus found in horseshoe bats in a nearby cave. – SOURCE

March 24, 2018 – EcoHealth Alliance applied for grant from DARPA’s PREventing EMerging Pathogeic Threats (PREEMPT) program for a project titled “Project Defused: Defusing the Threat of Bat-Borne Coronaviruses” for the amount of $14.2 million. – PDF

The proposal “included a plan to insert furin cleavage sites into existing bat coronaviruses — spots in the surface protein of a virus that can boost its entry into human cells. The DARPA proposal was rejected — and yet the presence of a furin cleavage site is precisely what sets SARS-CoV-2 apart from all known SARS-like coronaviruses. – ARTICLE

March 2, 2018 – Viroligica Sinica – Letter: Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China – Zheng-Li Shi, Peter Daszak, Lin-Fa Wang et al – READ, ARCHIVE

[This 2018 letter reports on work done in October 2015 – A long duration and presented as a letter not paper- curious]
“…to date, no evidence of direct transmission of SARSr-CoVs from bats to people has been reported.”…”Our study provides the first serological evidence of likely human infection by bat SARSr-CoVs or, potentially, related viruses.”
In this study, we performed serological surveillance on people who live in close proximity to caves where bats that carry diverse SARSr-CoVs roost. In October 2015, we collected serum samples from 218 residents in four villages in Jinning County, Yunnan province, China…

We have been conducting longitudinal molecular surveillance of bats for CoVs in these caves since 2011 and have found that they are inhabited by large numbers of bats including Rhinolophus spp., a major reservoir of SARSr-CoVs….As a control, we also collected 240 serum samples from random blood donors in 2015 in Wuhan, Hubei Province more than 1000 km away from Jinning.
Coronaviruses are known to have a high mutation rate during replication and are prone to recombination if different viruses infect the same individual…” (Knipe et al. 2013)
“In October 2015 Shi’s team collected blood samples from more than 200 residents in four villages near Shitou Cave. “It found that 6 people, or nearly 3% carried antibodies against SARS-like coronaviruses from bats—even though none of them had handled wildlife or reported SARS-like or other pneumonia-like symptoms. ” – SOURCE

January 19, 2018, cable – Washington Post reports (April 14, 2020) State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses – READ, TIMELINE

US Embassy officials who visited the lab sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the Wuhan lab, the last visit occurred on March 27, 2018
“What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help.” – READ
“One “sensitive but unclassified” State Department cable warned about a “serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”” – READ

January 17, 2018 – Wuhan Institute of Virology: Top-level biosafety lab begins work – ARCHIVE, PDF, China Daily – READ

2017

December 29, 2017 [original air date] – Video shows Wuhan lab scientists admit to being bitten by bats -Chinese scientists shown using little to no PPE while handling bats in wild, samples in lab – WATCH & READ, CREDIT

Ben Hu [To become patient zero] watching a lab worker handle specimens – REF

December 19, 2017 – Nature: US government lifts ban on risky pathogen research – The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous. – READ,
NIH: Notice Announcing the Removal of the Funding Pause for Gain-of-Function Research Projects – READ

Moratorium on Gain-of-Function lifted: Francis Collins Director of the US National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it is lifting the October 2014 funding moratorium on Gain-of-Function (GOF) research – TIMELINE
Dr Fauci celebrates end of moratorium on funding GOF research – @7:20

November 30, 2017 – PLoS Pathology: Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus – Zheng-Li Shi, Peter Daszak & Lin-Fa Wang [Singapore no longer Australia], Ben Hu, et al – READ, PAPER, OTHER, TIMELINE, This is said to be gain of function research – READ, Senate Hearing – WATCH

“Herein, we report the findings of our 5-year surveillance of SARSr-CoVs in a cave inhabited by multiple species of horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province, China….The full-length genomes of 11 newly discovered SARSr-CoV strains, together with our previous findings, reveals that the SARSr-CoVs circulating in this single location are highly diverse in the S gene, ORF3 and ORF8.
Importantly, strains with high genetic similarity to SARS-CoV in the hypervariable N-terminal domain (NTD) and receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the S1 gene, the ORF3 and ORF8 region, respectively, were all discovered in this cave….Recombination analysis shows evidence of frequent recombination events within the S gene…”
Cell entry studies demonstrated that three newly identified SARSr-CoVs with different S protein sequences are all able to use human ACE2 as the receptor [could infect humans], further exhibiting the close relationship between strains in this cave and SARS-CoV. This work provides new insights into the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV and highlights the necessity of preparedness for future emergence of SARS-like diseases.”

November 10, 2017 – Science China: Cross-neutralization of SARS coronavirus-specific antibodies against bat SARS-like coronaviruses – by Shi et al – READ, CREDIT (Paper received July 9, 2017 – well before US GOF ban lifted)

Partly funded by Peter Hotez NIH grant “R01AI098775 to Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du” – grant ARCHIVE
generated a recombinant virus from two SARS-related coronaviruses: rWIV1-SHC014S

October 24, 2017: Nature Communications: Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases – Allens with Daszak and Moreno Di Marco (Australia) et al – READ

February 23, 2017 – Nature: Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world’s most dangerous pathogens – Cyranoski – READ, CREDIT

This new National Bio-safety Laboratory in Wuhan, would be the first on the Chinese mainland, the plan is to build a network of 5 to 7 more biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) labs across the Chinese mainland by 2025 – noted Harbin, Beijing and Kunming localities
“Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping“
Many staff from the Wuhan lab have been training at a BSL-4 lab in Lyon, France
“The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright”

“It will offer more opportunities for Chinese researchers, and our contribution on the BSL‑4-level pathogens will benefit the world“…

“The world is facing more new emerging viruses, and we need more contribution from China,”
George Gao

2016

August 8, 2016 – Science and Engineering Ethics: Gain-of-Function Research: Ethical Analysis – READ

June 2, 2016: USA Today: Newly disclosed CDC biolab failures ‘like a screenplay for a disaster movie’ – READ (also see June 2015)

March 15, 2016 (published) – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence – Ralph Baric et al – READ, READ2 see January 6, 2016 below

February 18, 2016 – Virologica Sinica: Coexistence of multiple coronaviruses in several bat colonies in an abandoned mineshaft – Zheng-Li Shi et al – READ, ARCHIVE The cave where 6 miners fell ill – TIMELINE

“We conducted a surveillance of coronaviruses in bats in an abandoned mineshaft in Mojiang County, Yunnan Province, China, from 2012–2013.
Six bat species were frequently detected in the cave Rhinolophus sinicus, Rhinolophus affinis, Hipposideros pomona, Miniopterus schreibersii, Miniopterus fuliginosus, and Miniopterus fuscus. By sequencing PCR products of the coronavirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene (RdRp), we found a high frequency of infection by a diverse group of coronaviruses in different bat species in the mineshaft.”

“The mineshaft stunk like hell”…“Bat guano, covered in fungus, littered the cave.”
Shi Zheng-Li

The fungus turned out to be what made the 6 miners sick. – SOURCE

January 6, 2016 – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence – by Menachery et al with Ralph Baric – READ, PDF, Dr Dave Martin CREDIT

“Using the SARS-CoV infectious clone as a template, we designed and synthesized a full-length infectious clone of WIV1-CoV”…In addition to the full-length clone, we also produced WIV1-CoV chimeric virus that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone…
“WIV1-CoV could be used to drive improved therapeutics, including escape mutants for improved monoclonal antibodies or more broadly neutralizing vaccine approaches...”
Where WIV is the Wuhan Institute of Virology headed by Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi, who supplied to US Chapel Hill, the gene sequence and plasmi of the spike protein, during the time of a Gain-of-Function research moratorium in the US, funded by NIAID under multiple grants. Grants included creating humanised mice for GOF testing and development:

Do you know what that says? A lab, took a model, and built the model, not from nature, but from a lab…

This is a specific engineering where they took what was already infectious and weaponised it with the WIV1 spike protein…

In other words, having built the pathogen, having built the weapon, having weaponised and loaded the gun, they then tell us why they want to do it. They want to use that weapon to justify the development of new vaccines
Dr Dave Martin

2015

November 16, 2015 – The Scientist: Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate – The creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain-of-function research – READ

“Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of to one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.”

November 12, 2015 – Nature: Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research – Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells – Butler – READ

“An experiment [Nov 9, 2015] that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus …has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.“
Creation of a chimaera – “lab research that increases the virulence, ease of spread or host range of dangerous pathogens — what is known as ‘gain-of-function’ research”
“The latest study was already under way before the US moratorium began, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) allowed it to proceed while it was under review by the agency, says Ralph Baric…”

November 10, 2015 – Science Daily | Uni North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New SARS-like virus can jump directly from bats to humans, no treatment available – Findings provide an opportunity to develop drugs and vaccines for coronaviruses before they emerges from animals to cause a human epidemic – Ralph Baric – READ, READ

A new bat SARS-like virus has been discovered that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation.

November 9, 2015 – Nature medicine – A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence. Menachery VD, Zhengli-Li Shi, and Ralph S Baric et al. 2015; 21(12): 1508-13. – READ, READ

Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.

September 15, 2015 – Journal of Infectious Diseases: Gain-of-Function Research and the Relevance to Clinical Practice – Kilianski et al – READ, CREDIT

Public discourse on the controversies of influenza virus research is about a decade old, beginning in 2005 with the reconstitution of the 1918 influenza A(H1N1)! [1, 2, 3]

June 16, 2015 – USA Today: After serious lab mishaps, CDC says it needs 3 years to release records – READ [labs are prone to accidents!] – The Highwire@20:40 CREDIT, After 2 years the CDC released highly redacted pages – READ, Congress demanded them un-redacted – READ

CDC “publicly disclosed three serious laboratory accidents during the past year involving Ebola, anthrax and a deadly strain of bird flu”
On Jan. 6 2015, USA Today filed FOIA request for CDC seeking copies of all incident reports at CDC labs during 2013 and 2014.

2014

October 22, 2014 – Nature: US suspends risky disease research – Government to cease funding gain-of-function studies that make viruses more dangerous, pending a safety assessment. – READ

October 17, 2014 – Moratorium: The US Government paused all funding for Gain-of-Function (GoF) studies or research – Doing Diligence to Assess the Risks and Benefits of Life Sciences Gain-of-Function Research – READ, OTHER

All studies or research that is “reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route”, simply because chimeric viruses are risky. – TIMELINE

June 1, 2014 – NIH award Grant to EcoHealth Alliance for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” – READ

Project Number: 1R01AI110964-01
Contact PI/Project Leader: DASZAK, PETER
Awardee Organization: ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.
Total Funding: $666,442
Project Start Date: June 1, 2014
Project End Date: May 31, 2019
Administering Institutes or Centers: NIAID

2014 – Journal: Viruses 2014, 6, 2138-2154 – Evidence for Retrovirus and Paramyxovirus Infection of Multiple Bat Species in China, Yuan et al – Metabiota collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance – ARCHIVE, PAPER, AUTHORS

2013

October 30, 2013 – Nature: Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor – READ – The authors include: Lin-Fa Wang & Gary Crameri [CSIRO, Geelong Aust.], Peter Daszak [EcoHealth Alliance] & Zheng-Li Shi [WIV], Jonna K. Mezet [One Health Inst. USA], et al

They reported a key discovery: that certain bat viruses could potentially infect humans without first jumping to an intermediate animals. Her team had found that a SARS-like bat coronavirus (SL-CoV-WIV1) could enter human cells through a protein called the [angiotensin converting enzyme II] ACE2 receptor – TIMELINE
“…The team discovered a coronavirus strain in 2013 that came from horseshoe bats and had a genomic sequence that was 97 percent identical to the one found in civets in Guangdong…. The finding concluded a decade-long search for the natural reservoir of the SARS coronavirus.” – REF

2012

2012 – In Yunnan province, China, 6 miners become seriously ill with respiratory symptoms after shovelling bat faeces at the bottom of a mine shaft. The miner’s respiratory virus (RaBtCoV/4991) came from rufous horseshoe bats. This is the cave that the WIV team collect bat coronavirus samples – TIMELINE

2011

2010

June 22, 2010 – Archives of Virology: Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry – Zhengli Shi [WIV] with Lin-Fa Wang & Meng Yu [CSIRO Geelong Aust.], Fang Li [USA] et al – READ, ARCHIVE

2009

November 1, 2009 – Journal of Virology: Two-Step Conformational Changes in a Coronavirus Envelope Glycoprotein Mediated by Receptor Binding and Proteolysis – Matsuyama et al – READ

“severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) utilize proteases to enter host cells. Upon receptor binding, the spike (S) proteins … are activated for membrane fusion by proteases, such as trypsin, present in the environment, facilitating virus entry from the cell surface. In contrast, in the absence of extracellular proteases, these viruses can enter cells via an endosomal pathway and utilize endosomal cathepsins for S protein activation.” Such as “multistep conformational changes for membrane fusion”

2008

December 1, 2008 – Journal of Virology: Entry from the Cell Surface of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus with Cleaved S Protein as Revealed by Pseudotype Virus Bearing Cleaved S Protein – Watanabe et al – (Japan) – READ, “Gain of Function of Coronavirus was achieved in Japan in 2008 by DELIBERATE insertion of FURIN.” – GETTR

“To explore this possibility, we introduced a furin-like cleavage sequence in the S protein at amino acids 798 to 801 and found that the mutated S protein was cleaved and induced cell fusion without trypsin [a protease enzyme] treatment when expressed on the cell surface…
Those results indicate that SARS-CoV with a cleaved S protein is able to enter cells directly from the cell surface and agree with the previous observation of the protease-mediated cell surface entry of SARS-CoV.”

February 21, 2008: Nature: Global trends in emerging infectious diseases – Jones with Daszak et al – READ

2006

July 2006 – Virology: Furin cleavage of the SARS coronavirus spike glycoprotein enhances cell–cell fusion but does not affect virion entry – Follis et al – READ

2005

December 8, 2005 – US Department of Agricultrue | Center for Veterinary Biologics – DEFINE CHIMERA: “The working definition of the term “chimera” is a new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid fragments from two or more different microorganisms in which each of at least two of the fragments contain essential genes necessary for replication” – PDF, ARCHIVE, CREDIT

NOTE: International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode) – Article 16. Provisions for Hybrids – HERE (a provision that has been in place since at least April 8, 2000) – REF, ARCHIVE, Original draft doc- ARCHIVE

October 28, 2005 – Science: Science: Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses – Authors included familiar names: Zhengli Shi, Meng Yu, Hume Field, Peter Daszak, Bryan T. Eaton, Lin-Fa Wang et al – READ, ABSTRACT, ARCHIVE

Abstract: “The origin of its etiological agent, the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), remains elusive. Here we report that species of bats are a natural host of coronaviruses closely related to those responsible for the SARS outbreak. These viruses, termed SARS-like coronaviruses (SL-CoVs), display greater genetic variation than SARS-CoV isolated from humans or from civets. The human and civet isolates of SARS-CoV nestle phylogenetically within the spectrum of SL-CoVs, indicating that the virus responsible for the SARS outbreak was a member of this coronavirus group.”
The study was conducted March – December 2004, sampled 408 bats representing 9 species, 6 genera and 3 families from 4 locations in China (Guangdon, Guangxi, Hubei and Tianjin) after trapping them in their native habitat,” then collected samples.
Horseshoe bats in the family Rhinolophidae demonstrated a high SARS-CoV antibody prevalence.

From a 2020 article we learn:

“In those first virus-hunting months in 2004, whenever Shi’s team located a bat cave, it would put a net at the opening before dusk—and then wait for the nocturnal creatures to venture out to feed for the night. Once the bats were trapped, the researchers took blood and saliva samples, as well as fecal swabs…[then] collect urine and fecal pellets.
But sample after sample turned up no trace of genetic material from coronaviruses. It was a heavy blow. “Eight months [to Nov 2004] of hard work seemed to have gone down the drain,” Shi says. “We thought coronaviruses probably did not like Chinese bats.” The team was about to give up when a research group in a neighboring lab handed it a diagnostic kit for testing antibodies produced by people with SARS.”
“There was no guarantee the test would work for bat antibodies, but Shi gave it a go anyway”. The results exceeded Shi’s expectations “Samples from three horseshoe bat species contained antibodies against the SARS virus. “It was a turning point for the project,” Shi says.
The researchers learned that the presence of the coronavirus in bats was ephemeral and seasonal—but an antibody reaction could last from weeks to years. So the diagnostic kit offered a valuable pointer as to how to hunt down viral genomic sequences.”

October 7, 2005 – Science: Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic virus by Tumpey et al – READ, (But the risks out weigh the benefits 2006 paper – READ)

August 29, 2005 – UKRAINE: Agreement between the Ministry of Health Health of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense of the United States of America regarding cooperation in the field of preventing the spread of technology, pathogens and knowledge that can be used in the course of the development of biological weapons (Google translated) – READ,

Sasha Latypova: Everything You Wanted to Know About Secret Biolabs in Ukraine, Now Revealed! (again) – CREDIT

August 2005 – US Dept of State: ADHERENCE TO AND COMPLIANCE WITH ARMS CONTROL, NON-PROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT AGREEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS – PDF, BACKUP, CREDIT

“The United States first declared in a 2005 State Department document that communist China maintained an offensive biological weapons program in violation of its treaty commitments and that it was run in part by an arm of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS). That report specifically cited the AMMS’ Fifth Institute as the epicenter of the country’s bioweapons program.” – REF

2003

May 15, 2003 – NEJM: Identification of a Novel Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Christan Drosten et al – READ, [The PCR sequence Drosten – TIMELINE]

May 15, 2003 – NEJM: A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Ksiazek et al – READ

Because of the death of Dr. Carlo Urbani, we propose that our first isolate be named the Urbani strain of SARS-associated coronavirus. [in 2020 SARS-CoV-2 named using the Greek alphabet]

March 2003 – SARS-CoV virus genome discovered and associated with the SARS epidemic that officially begins in China – TIMELINE

1977

1977 – Book Ecoscience – Population, Resources, Environment by Paul Ehlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren – The Highwire – WATCH (Ehrlich predicted global famine in 1968)

“The development of a long-term steriliziong capsule that could be implanted under the sking and removed when prednancy is desired opens aditional possiblilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be inmplanted at buberty and might be removable, with officla permission, for a limited number of births.””
“Biological warfare laboratories are potential sources of a man-made ‘solution’ to the population explosion”