A new Senate Republican report concludes COVID-19 most likely originated at a Wuhan laboratory and that the pandemic began earlier in 2019 than China admits, noting Chinese biosafety scrambling and military involvement at the lab.
The GOP-led report found that “the preponderance of circumstantial evidence” supports the hypothesis that “an unintentional research-related incident” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology led to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. The Senate investigators concluded the novel coronavirus was likely already spreading among humans in October or November 2019, highlighting yearslong biosafety problems at the Wuhan lab and what seemed to be a mad scramble for biosecurity equipment at the lab in 2019.
The new report noted the WIV took its viral sample and sequence database offline in September 2019 and that “Wuhan officials conducted an emergency response drill at its international airport” that month. The investigators said this occurred the same day the Wuhan lab ordered"an air incinerator to address some problem or failure of a biosafety autoclave at the WIV’s original downtown campus.” The report said this “suggests some concern about the risk of an infectious aerosol escape.”
“The WIV’s biosafety guidelines apparently allowed its researchers, including graduate students, to conduct initial evaluations of SARS-related bat coronaviruses in biosafety level two laboratories,” the GOP report said. “At least until the COVID-19 pandemic, it is apparent that researchers at the WIV were working with SARS-related coronaviruses in inappropriate biosafety levels.”
PLA AMMS Maj. Gen. Wei Chen led a separate effort that resulted in a patent submission in March 2020, leading experts to believe, the report said, that she would have had to have begun research “no later than early December 2019.”“China’s official position is that the COVID-19 outbreak began no earlier than December 8, 2019. Several data sources, however, challenge this assertion,” the GOP report concluded.
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