Growing evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely leaked from a Chinese lab is growing so compelling that a writer in Newsweek says it’s time “to come clean” and admit it.
U.S. intelligence reports not only are showing that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was conducting secret research on highly contagious viruses, but other evidence points toward deliberate “obfuscation and malfeasance” about the virus’ origins, says Jamie Metzl, founder and chair of oneshared.world.
“Beijing’s herculean efforts to stymie investigations into the origins of the outbreak by destroying samples, hiding data, silencing Chinese scientists and journalists and spreading misinformation about the origins of the pandemic, are at best telling and at worst incriminating,” Metzl, says.
“We know that many viruses at the Institute were manipulated using “gain of function” research to develop hybrid viruses to test their ability to infect human lung cells and humanized mice. Is it just coincidental that SARS-CoV-2 appears to have emerged in late 2019 already adapted for transmission to humans and that the COVID-19 outbreak occurred … in the only Chinese city with a high-level virology institute that was experimenting with novel and diverse bat coronaviruses and hosting secret military animal pathogen research?
SOURCE: Newsweek January 22, 2021