https://freerepublic.com/tag/chinnavirus/ en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 03:18:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381395/posts ○ 1 THE VIRUS WAS ENGINEERED IN A LABORATORY IN CHINA. Because the pathogen first emerged in Wuhan, China, President Donald Trump and others have claimed, without evidence, that it started in a lab there, and some conspiracy theorists believe it was engineered as a bioweapon. Why It’s False: U.S. intelligence agencies have categorically denied the possibility that the virus was engineered in a lab, stating that “the Intelligence Community ... concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.” Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli—who studies bat coronaviruses and whose lab Trump and others... Scientific American https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381395/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2026 03:18:53 GMT