Posted on 05/18/2021 12:16:45 PM PDT by RandFan
In Wuhan, China, where the first cases of the coronavirus emerged in late 2019, at least two labs studied coronaviruses that originate in bats — the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC). Both are close to the seafood market that was originally deemed the source of the outbreak. The WIV is about eight miles away. The WHCDC is right around the corner.
The WIV is where one of the world’s foremost experts on bat viruses, Shi Zhengli, works. The WIV has a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory, the most secure, where researchers wear protective suits. But some of WIV’s more controversial experiments on bat coronaviruses are believed to have been done at BSL-2 labs, where researchers wear white coats, as in a dental office.
W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University had co-authored an influential letter in March 2020 that the coronavirus was “not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” He recently told former New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. that the BSL-2 revelation was significant even though there still is no direct evidence of a lab leak. “That’s screwed up,” he said. “It shouldn’t have happened. People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs. My view has changed.”
In any case, is there evidence that NIH funded such gain-of-function research at WIV? To some extent, that depends on the definition of gain of function, which as we noted is open to dispute.
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Here’s the full “fact check” from WaPo.
Kessler working overtime to carry all that water up capital hill
The Amazon Post has no credibility to fact check.
This is simple. Produce the FN bats! Yet they have not because they can’t. Engineered virus — PERIOD!
Exactly.
Engineered virus and BIOLOGICAL WEAPON.
Yeah, him and Greg Sargent.
/spit
“To some extent, that depends...”
In other words, the answer is YES.
feh...
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