Posted on 06/14/2023 7:52:27 AM PDT by bitt
A new report citing U.S. government sources says three scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China were among the first people to have been infected by COVID-19.
The Substack article, co-authored by Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger and Alex Gutenag, says the findings are "significant new evidence" that "strengthens the case that the SARS-CoV-2 virus accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
"According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, ‘patients zero,’ included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s ‘gain-of-function' research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses," the article reads.
"Sources within the U.S. government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus," it adds.
Gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in eastern China has widely been suspected as a source of the pandemic.
"What they were doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taking dangerous, scary viruses and making them scarier," Jamie Metzl of the Atlantic Council told Fox News early last year.
In basic terms, the point of gain-of-function research is to make a virus more dangerous. Scientists argue that, with this research, they can be prepared to handle it if one day the virus were to mutate naturally.
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“Fauci Funded™”
Ever wonder why our government kept insisting that Covid was naturally occurring and denied it came from a lab? It’s because they helped fund the Chinese lab it came from.
Thank you! The bug didn’t escape, it was released. Then images of Chinese people dropping dead in the streets were broadcast the world over.
He’ll never pay for the lives he ended.
What a co-inky dink!
Thanks for the link to the Post article on this. For some reason, Fox doesn’t care WHEN this happened, which is essential to understanding how this thing spread.
According to the Post:
“...when they became sick in the fall of 2019.”
Yep.
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