Bits of the viral genome look almost manufactured but no proof of that and this is the sole pointer to the virus being engineered.

Investigators say Covid-19 was developed through a series of risky experiments
The virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab and covered up due to its military links

12 June 2023

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were running risky experiments to create deadly mutant coronaviruses by fusing newly discovered strains - just before the outbreak of Covid-19.

US investigators believe Covid-19 was created by scientists at the Wuhan lab through experiments on a similar coronavirus discovered in a mineshaft in southern China.

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were fusing deadly coronaviruses to create highly-infectious mutant strains, that were then used to infect albino mice, the US investigators claim.

The research programme was kept secret and covered up due to it being funded by the Chinese military with the aim of developing bioweapons, the investigators believe. 

The secret initiative in turn led to the creation of Covid-19, which was then leaked into the city of Wuhan through a lab accident, before it spread across the globe, the US investigators claim.

The Wuhan laboratory had initially set out to discover the origins of the deadly SARS virus that first broke out in southern China in 2002, US investigators told the Sunday Times.

However, the research institute soon became engaged in increasingly risky experiments on coronaviruses that were taken from caves in southern China.

The Wuhan lab initially made all of its findings public and claimed its research was necessary to develop coronavirus vaccines.

The institute's position, however, shifted in 2016 when researchers from the Wuhan institute discovered a new coronavirus in a mineshaft in Mojiang, Yunnan, near China's border with Laos.

The coronavirus that was discovered in the Mojiang mineshaft is understood to be the only member of Covid-19's immediate family to have existed prior to the pandemic.

Chinese authorities, however, failed to report fatalities linked to the new coronavirus that was discovered in the Mojiang mineshaft.

Instead, the mineshaft viruses were taken back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology where researchers launched a classified research programme, investigators say.

US investigators believe this classified research initiative was aimed at making the newly discovered virus more infectious by fusing it with other coronaviruses.

They claim the facts of the research programme were kept secret due it being funded by the Chinese military, in line with efforts to develop bioweapons.

The experiments saw albino mice with human-like lungs infected with SARS-like viruses, that caused death rates of 75 per cent.

The risky experiment saw the mice infected with three lab grown viruses, made by fusing SARS-like viruses with one discovered in a cave in Yunnan in 2012.

The investigators believe these secret experiments eventually led to the creation of Covid-19, before it was accidently leaked from the Wuhan lab.

They believe the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab into the city of almost nine million people through a laboratory accident.

The investigators believe a number of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology caught Covid in November 2019 - a month before the West became aware of the virus.

A study from Wuhan University shows the area surrounding the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the initial centre of the spread of Covid-19.

Links to the Wuhan lab were however covered up, the investigators say, as they claim the outbreak was instead blamed on the Huanan wet food market, that is located on the other side Yangtze river that runs through the city, several miles away.

The investigators also claim the Wuhan lab had already begun working on a vaccine before the pandemic, in autumn 2019.

A highly decorated military scientist, Zhou Yusen, later produced a vaccine patent with remarkable speed, in February 2020, just months after the outbreak was revealed.

A report later claimed Zhou must have begun developing his vaccine by November 2019 at the latest - just as the pandemic began.

The 54-year-old military vaccine specialist is now understood to have died, with US investigators having been told by witnesses he was thrown off the roof of the Wuhan institute.

Following the leak, Chinese authorities led an information clampdown, that saw researchers blocked from investigating the origins of Covid-19, the US investigators said.

Foreign scientists were refused entry to the caves where the coronavirus was initially discovered, and had their samples taken by police. 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182513/Scientists-Wuhan-combining-wor...

A bombshell report has unmasked the Wuhan individual believed to be Covid’s infamous patient zero, a move that’s been described as a “game changer”.

June 15, 2023

The Covid-19 “patient zero” was a Wuhan scientist carrying out experiments on souped-up coronaviruses, a new report has sensationally claimed.

According to the report, the scientist, Ben Hu, was conducting risky tests at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with two colleagues, Ping Yu and Yan Zhu.

It’s understood all three fell ill with Covid-like symptoms and needed hospital care weeks before China disclosed the virus outbreak to the world.

They had never been named until now, The Sun reports.

Several US government officials have now identified the three scientists in a bombshell report by journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi.

Writing in the Substack newsletter Public, they alleged the scientists were experimenting with coronaviruses when they became sick in 2019.

Many experts and intelligence officials have long suspected scientists at the lab accidentally spread Covid-19 during so-called “gain of function” experiments on bat coronaviruses.

The naming of “patient zero” could be the so-called smoking gun – adding to mounting circumstantial evidence of a lab leak.

It’s not clear who in the US government had the intelligence about the sick lab workers, how long they had it, and why it was not shared with the public.

“It’s a game changer if it can be proven that Hu got sick with Covid before anyone else,” he said.

“That would be the ‘smoking gun’. Hu was the lead hands-on researcher in (virologist Shi Zhengli’s) lab.”

DRASTIC – an international team of scientists and sleuths attempting to fill in the gaps on Covid-19’s origins – researched the three scientists back in 2021.

Hu’s biography on the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s website shows he was working as an assistant researcher.

He was said to be the “star pupil” of virologist Shi Zhengli – the virologist at the lab who became known as “batwoman” for her research on bat coronaviruses.

According to Markson, the author of What Really Happened in Wuhan, Hu was running a state-funded project in 2019 to see if two new coronaviruses could infect humans.

The study involved souping up the viruses and experimenting with them on humanised mice.

But the results were never published and the study’s existence was wiped from the internet as Covid-19 was spreading around the world, raising suspicion of a possible lab leak.

A source told The Sun that footage taken in 2017 and aired by Chinese state-run TV showed Hu working in the lab without protective gear.

The same video shows scientists from the Wuhan lab hunting for bat viruses with inadequate protective gear.

Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at MIT and Harvard, told Public: “Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli.

“He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanised mice.

“If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.”

Next week, the US is set to release previously classified material, which might include the names of the three Wuhan scientists.

Earlier this year, FBI director Christopher Wray said “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan”.

Investigators believe scientists were working with Chinese military to create a mutant virus and pursue bioweapons just as the pandemic started.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/bombshell-report-identifies-cov...

June 15, 2023

It is no longer a question that the COVID-19 virus leaked from China’s notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory.

What’s more, this week my colleagues Matt Taibbi, Alex Gutentag, and I broke the explosive story that the first three people sickened by the virus were the scientists experimenting with SARS-like coronaviruses.

Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab.

When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, before the virus spread around the world, we were told, “100%.”

Now, it’s up to Congress to demand answers from the intelligence community and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.

How long did they know?

And why did they keep it a secret?

The first 3 people sickened by COVID-19 were scientists experimenting with SARS-like coronaviruses.


In February of this year, the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a reporter that “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

Why, then, didn’t he say something sooner?

The cover-up was vast and insidious.

Our sources were terrified to tell us what many had long suspected.
They only did so because they are as outraged as the American people should be and felt a moral obligation to speak out.

Not only did the highly infectious respiratory virus kill millions, but the response to it also shut down businesses and schools, upended societies, and caused enormous collateral damage.

Governments threw out their pandemic playbooks, which until COVID-19 had centered around voluntary measures and protecting high-risk groups — not long-term school and business lockdowns and mask mandates.

And, in the name of public safety and preventing “vaccine hesitancy,” governments declared war on free speech.

Facebook censored The New York Post’s accurate February 2020 op-ed pointing to a lab leak as the cause.

Twitter kicked journalists off its platform.

And the White House menacingly threatened Facebook and Twitter with extinction, in the form of revoking their license to operate, if they didn’t censor “often-true content,” including stories of vaccine side effects.

Now we know that many people within the federal bureaucracy have strongly suspected that COVID came from a lab and were too terrified to say anything publicly.

The people we interviewed for our story weren’t the only federal employees who felt compelled to share what they knew.


For the last six months, we have seen whistleblower after whistleblower come forward bravely, as the law allows, only to be punished.

FBI officials punished whistleblowers for exposing the agency’s targeting of innocent Americans for “domestic terrorism” and “violent extremism.”

China deserves plenty of blame for what happened.

The Wuhan lab had repeatedly failed to maintain proper safety levels.

In 2014, President Barack Obama had banned the “gain of function” research that likely caused the pandemic.

Fauci and his collaborators violated the spirit if not the letter of the law by sending that research to China, and spinning it as something other than gain of function.

The abuse of power is pervasive in the federal government.

The worshipful news media coverage of Fauci is particularly appalling in retrospect, now that we know that he personally sought to squelch the lab leak hypothesis for self-interested reasons.

The greatest change of all must be in the way Americans view their leaders and institutions.

We must be much more suspicious of the official narrative.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/we-now-know-the-first-3-people-to-get-covid-worked...

David J Hermiz MD
@DrHermiz

Dr. Peter Daszak has been ordered to testify before the US Congress in Washington D.C. on November 14, 2023, regarding his alleged involvement in the creation and accidental release of SARS-CoV-2, and his involvement in a conspiracy to cover this up.

https://twitter.com/DrHermiz/status/1722399320589079020

A lot of fat Americans died and mostly the fat ones...but it did not hurt a lot of pple- that'9s my take on it- I still haven't had the virus- that I  know of but there are still a few with masks getting around- why?
I did not ask them.

Most everyone I  know has had it and they had a bad time of it for about 2 days- but no fatalities.One of these pple was an alcoholic-- one would have thought he might have had a nasty time with it but he didn'2t really.

It is still with us, changing ever so slightly but I  dont think it will become anything like super deadly~