{"id":256776,"date":"2021-05-23T03:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-looks-more-credible-then-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-05-23T03:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T00:21:16","slug":"the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-looks-more-credible-then-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-looks-more-credible-then-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"#The \u2018Wuhan lab leak\u2019 theory looks more credible then ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The \u2018Wuhan lab leak\u2019 theory looks more credible then ever<\/strong>”
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Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee just released a report citing \u201csignificant circumstantial evidence\u201d that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and that Washington \u201cmay have funded or collaborated\u201d in research leading to the outbreak \u2014 suspicions that in recent weeks have become pretty mainstream.<\/p>\n

So two points: 1) Why didn\u2019t Democrats sign on? 2) How foolish Facebook<\/a> now looks for blocking The Post\u2019s February 2020 column that first raised the Wuhan-lab-leak possibility.<\/p>\n

The turn began when 18 top world scientists challenged the World Health Organization\u2019s superficial investigation that called the lab-leak scenario \u201cextremely unlikely.\u201d They called for \u201ca proper investigation,\u201d noting that zero<\/em> evidence supports the theory that the virus simply jumped from bats.<\/p>\n

Then came the landmark essay by ex-New York Times science<\/a> reporter Nicholas Wade, detailing the science that makes the lab-leak theory more<\/em> credible and flagging the real possibility that the NYC-based EcoHealth Alliance may have used federal funding to pay for coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n

Peter Daszak, EcoHealth\u2019s president, has been a prime force seeking to discredit the lab-leak theory, organizing a Lancet letter that attacked it and even serving on the WHO team \u201cinvestigating\u201d in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

Notably, Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control chief Rochelle Walensky have now both conceded that the pandemic might\u2019ve started in that lab.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China absolutely refuses to allow independent access to the lab or its records \u2014 which means it\u2019s hiding something<\/em> (if only other biowarfare research that it insists it\u2019s not doing).<\/p>\n

\u201cJumps\u201d across species require time for a virus to adapt, and it would likely infect at least one intermediate species before transmission to humans. But tests of 80,000 animal samples in the first infected areas of China all came back negative for COVID-19. And the bat species most likely to carry coronaviruses dwells 1,000 miles away from Wuhan and would have been in hibernation when the first cases app<\/a>eared.<\/p>\n

That this particular coronavirus showed up seemingly out of nowhere, perfectly suited to attack humans, would be quite the mystery if it hadn\u2019t first popped up in a city with two<\/em> virology institutes that were studying bat coronaviruses.<\/p>\n

Beyond routine observations, those studies amounted to what the House Republicans called \u201cdangerous research\u201d conducted without \u201cnecessary safety protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is where it gets really messy.<\/p>\n

MIT identified work by Shi Zhengli, a top scientist in the Wuhan lab, as an example of \u201cgain of function\u201d research, a method of developing vaccines by first making a virus more potent and tailored to attack human cells. She did much of her work in a room with only the same level of sanitary and safety measures as a US dentist\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

And she told Scientific American<\/a> that on hearing of the first cases in Wuhan, her first thought was to wonder if her lab was the source.<\/p>\n

China in general<\/a> has a history of research leaks resulting in infections, and the State Department issued warnings about these specific experiments and the lack of trained personnel involved as early as 2017. Oh, and Chinese media were discussing improper waste disposal at the Wuhan Institute, and employees selling lab animals on the black market, before<\/em> the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Several of the institute\u2019s researchers exhibited COVID-like symptoms in fall 2019. Cell-phone use in the facility stopped for three weeks in October, suggesting a work halt, perhaps for evacuation or decontamination.<\/p>\n

In short, China has a lot of explaining to do \u2014 as does the Fauci-led National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Newsweek reports<\/a> put millions into Wuhan coronavirus research.<\/p>\n

The House Republicans want a full release of all federal information on the pandemic\u2019s origins. That would be at least a start on clearing up the mysteries.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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