https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-to-wuhan/ “...In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force – outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.
The Wuhan lab is now at the center of scrutiny for possibly releasing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and causing the global Covid-19 pandemic...”
Yep. I wonder if Fauci ever met privately with the Bat Lady?
G. O. F. GAIN of FUNCTION!
I did a search to see if Fauci and the Bat Lady met, and found this really excellent article. This is just an excerpt of it:
“Washington Clings to the Idea the Novel Coronavirus Came From Nature
The State Department, NIH and CDC know far more than they are telling”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/washington-clings-to-the-idea-the-novel-coronavirus-came-from-nature_3324786.html
In 2015 a number of scientists including the now world-famous “bat lady” scientist Shi Zhengli (listed in the article as Zhengli-LiShi) published a paper called “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses show potential for human emergence.” The study included American researchers associated with the University of North Carolina Department of Cell Biology and probably is related to work that was funded by the U.S. government. (That research was suspended on the grounds it was highly dangerous in 2014, but resumed in 2017.)
The paper is focused on the SARS-like virus SHCO14-CoV, “which is currently circulating in (the) Chinese horseshoe bat populations.” Shi Zhengli became famous for going to places where these bats live, capturing them and bringing them back to the virology lab. The researchers say, “Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronoavirus SHCO14 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.”
A chimeric virus is defined as “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.”
What this means is that the research group was able to take the bat virus and make it potentially capable of infecting humans, or as they say “we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel zoonotic CoV spike protein … that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats—in the context of the SARS-CoV mouse-adapted backbone.”
It is not clear what the purpose of this research was, but it certainly demonstrated that a coronavirus can be modified in a way that the infection could emerge in humans.
U.S. Concern
In 2018, as is now understood, the United States was concerned about conditions in the Wuhan Virology Laboratory and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing dispatched a team on two occasions to visit the laboratory and meet with scientists there, including Dr. Shi Zhengli.
The report pointed out serious deficiencies in the lab and warned about potential threats posed by coronaviruses in bats. Presumably the Embassy knew much more about Wuhan’s bat research than has been revealed so far, and were greatly concerned about the danger it raised.
Unfortunately, the State Department has not released the reporting cables sent back to the United States nor the cables that prompted the investigations. Moreover, the fact that the State Department experts were sent back to the lab a second time suggests they were instructed to go back and ask more questions about what the Chinese scientists were doing with horseshoe bats.
Clearly the U.S. government was alarmed—in fact the CDC had closed down some labs in the United States fearing the release of virus infections.
Given the Chinese research record, warnings about the conditions in the Wuhan Virology Laboratory, previously recorded research involving modifying SARS (corona) viruses, and research with coronaviruses and HIV, it is difficult to understand why Washington is sticking with the natural bats to humans explanation for the current coronavirus plague. Washington knows better.
Pretending the coronavirus pandemic is something natural is intentionally misleading the American people, and people around the world infected by the coronavirus.
At minimum, the CDC and NIH as well as the State Department should tell us what they really know. An independent investigation is needed with full access to all records.
It’s getting harder and harder for people to claim that this is naturally occuring.
Obviously, this leaked from the Wuhan lab.
It’s becoming just as obvious that someone was fooling around with the spike protein and the furin cleavage site on the virus.
Best case for China is they can sell the idea that the release was accidental and unplanned.
But with Trump’s comment yesterday “there’s never been an attack like this”, it’s looking more like the US is thinking that China isn’t quite the innocent co-victim in all of this. Things are about to get interesting.