The U.S. was shocked, shocked, to find that secret research was going on in Wuhan. From Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. at childrenshealthdefense.org:
U.S. Department of State investigators believe the COVID-19 pandemic started as a result of a lab leak related to secret gain-of-function experiments conducted by the Chinese military at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., told The Defender he believes it’s unlikely U.S. scientists were unaware of the research.
According to a British newspaper, Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were secretly conducting advanced gain-of-function research on newly discovered coronavirus strains just prior to the outbreak of COVID-19.
An article published Sunday in The Times reported that U.S. Department of State investigators believe COVID-19 was created by scientists at the Wuhan lab who were developing highly infectious forms of coronavirus using strains of the virus discovered in an abandoned mine shaft in Yunnan province.
The scientists were using gain-of-function research methods developed and shared with them by U.S. virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., and British zoologist Peter Daszak, Ph.D., both of whom worked for EcoHealth Alliance.
However, according to The Times, Chinese researchers were conducting the program in secret, as part of a bioweapons program funded by the Chinese military.
“It has become increasingly clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was involved in the creation, promulgation and cover-up of the Covid-19 pandemic,” a State Department investigator told The Times.
The Times said it reviewed hundreds of documents that included confidential reports, internal memos, email correspondence and interviews with unnamed State Department investigators who had conducted a U.S. inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 in 2021. The Times did not include links to any of those documents.
