Covid-19 > Two New Studies Try to Whitewash Wuhan Lab's Guilt of Creation of Covid-19

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COVID-19's origins were at Wuhan market in China, two new studies suggest

By HealthDay News

   

Markets in Wuhan, China, sell fresh meat in the open air, often offering live animals for slaughter.

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Two new studies strongly suggest that COVID-19 most likely began with a jump to humans from animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.

It's not clear from what type of animal the virus jumped to a human, but the first animal-to-human transmission appears to have happened around Nov. 18, 2019, one study found.

According to the researchers, the Wuhan market contained a wide range of live wild animals, with badgers, birds, muskrats, snakes and other species sold for food.

Two strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, already were present at the market by the fall of 2019, the studies found.

I wonder how they determined that?

"While I'm hesitant to call it proof, what we presented is the most comprehensive explanation for the SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity at the outset of the pandemic," study co-author Joel Wertheim, an associate adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, said in a university news release.

"There are really no other good explanations for both of these strains being at the market except for multiple jumps into humans."

The two studies first were posted online in February as preprints, but they've now undergone peer review and were published Tuesday in the journal Science.

Other theories about how the virus began in humans include the "Chinese lab leak" hypothesis widely circulated on the internet. The World Health Organization has recommended that scientists continue research on that and other theories.

But the researchers behind the two new studies believe their findings deliver convincing evidence on the virus' origins.

"It's a real thing," said Michael Worobey, a co-author of the first study and department head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, told CNN. "It's just not plausible that this virus was introduced any other way than through the wildlife trade."

Seriously! Can this idea be anything other than a Deep State propaganda project? When you have a virology lab working on making the Coronavirus "gain-of-function" abilities which would make it easier to infect humans and animals, just down the street from where 2 new strains of Covid appeared, how can you possibly draw the conclusion that the two facts are not connected?

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LAB LEAK Coronavirus pandemic started as ‘an accident’

when man-made virus leaked from China lab, ex-MI6 boss says

Alex Winter

THE coronavirus pandemic "started as an accident" when the engineered virus escaped from a Chinese lab, a former MI6 chief has said.

Sir Richard Dearlove says he's seen an "important" new report which claims the virus didn't emerge naturally.

A former spy chief claims Covid-19 didn't occur naturally in the wild, but may have been created instead

by Chinese scientists  Credit: AP:Associated Press

Instead, it was created by Chinese scientists before it accidentally leaked, Sir Richard told The Telegraph.

And he claimed the report could force China to pay 'reparations' to the rest of the world for the death toll and economic hardship wrought by the virus.

International scientists believe the virus emerged in animals - most likely bats or pangolins - before jumping to the human population.

But Sir Richard says a scientific paper published this week by a Norwegian-British research team suggests key elements of Covid-19's genetic sequences were "inserted" and may not have evolved naturally.

He said: "It raises the issue, if China ever were to admit responsibility, does it pay reparations?

"I think it will make every country in the world rethink how it treats its relationship with China."

Sir Richard suggested scientists may have been conducting secret gene-splicing experiments on bat coronaviruses when Covid-19 somehow escaped through a lapse in biosecurity.

"It's a risky business if you make a mistake," he said.

It's an insane business and ought to be a crime against humanity.

Sir Richard, who was the head of MI6 between 1999 and 2004, said he's read peer-reviewed research produced by top academics at St George's Hospital at the University of London and Norwegian virologists.

The paper claims that there are 'inserted sections' in the DNA of the virus, and warns that current efforts to develop a vaccine are doomed - because the virus has been misunderstood.

Some have claimed the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology  Credit: AFP or licensors

Sir Richard called the study a "very important contribution to a debate which is now starting" about how the virus evolved and then turned into a pandemic.

Sir Richard says it could raise questions about how China will compensate affected countries Credit: Reuters

The paper has been rewritten several times, and an earlier version apparently claimed coronavirus could correctly be called the "Wuhan virus".

The earlier version, seen by The Telegraph, claimed to have proven "beyond all reasonable doubt that the Covid-19 virus is engineered."

One of the authors, John Fredrik Moxnes, asked for his name to be withdrawn from the research, throwing its credibility into doubt.

London academics have also dismissed its conclusions, it is understood.

But the remaining authors claim the virus has "unique fingerprints" that cannot have evolved naturally.

The paper has not yet been accepted for publication in any scientific journal.

The Chinese government has always insisted that the outbreak began in a "wet market" in the city of Wuhan late last year.

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The truth, it seems is slowly emerging. It is just too much of a coincidence to believe that the very coronavirus the Wuhan Lab was working on began naturally in a wet market just down the street! 

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