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health-science1 year ago

New Analysis Suggests 70% Chance COVID Originated from Wuhan Lab

A new analysis suggests that the Covid-19 virus may have originated from a lab, with researchers assigning a 68% likelihood to the pandemic being an unnatural outbreak. The study points to the Wuhan Institute of Virology's proximity to the wet market where the first cases emerged, as well as unusual characteristics of the virus and suspicious actions at the lab. While the zoonotic theory remains, recent revelations about experiments to create a Covid-like virus have emboldened lab leak supporters. The implications of this study highlight the importance of preventing unnatural outbreaks due to human error and inadequate biosafety procedures.

via Daily Mail|
#covid-19#gain-of-function-research#health-science
science-and-research1 year ago

"Exploring the Eerie Ties Between NIH Virus Lab in Montana and Wuhan: US Scientists Inject Pigs and Monkeys"

Exclusive footage and documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal controversial virus research and animal experiments at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana, including injecting pigs with Ebola and infecting monkeys with Covid-19. The lab has been under scrutiny for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its experiments with SARS-like viruses prior to the Covid pandemic. Republican senators have demanded more transparency and oversight of the lab's research, while the White Coat Waste Project has raised concerns about the ethical and safety implications of the experiments.

via Daily Mail|
#animal-experiments#nih#pandemic
science-and-technology2 years ago

Scientists' Safety Concerns and Misleading Information Surrounding Covid Research at Wuhan Lab

Newly released documents and internal messages reveal that scientists expressed safety concerns over the Chinese lab at the center of the COVID-19 lab leak theory in a 2018 coronavirus research proposal. The proposal, called Project DEFUSE, sought to make bat coronaviruses more transmissible to humans by introducing human-specific cleavage sites to spike proteins. The researchers planned to conduct part of the research at the Wuhan lab, which did not meet US safety standards. The proposal was ultimately rejected and never funded by the US's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The documents add another layer to the lab leak theory, suggesting that the pandemic may have been caused by an infected lab tech or improper waste disposal. EcoHealth Alliance, the organization behind the proposal, stated that the research was never completed.

via New York Post |
#covid-19#lab-leak-theory#research-proposal
sciencehealth2 years ago

"Controversial Montana Lab, Led by Anthony Fauci, Conducted Experiments with Wuhan Coronavirus Strain"

An investigation has revealed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, used US taxpayer money to experiment with coronaviruses from the Wuhan lab in China more than a year before the global Covid pandemic. The NIH infected 12 Egyptian fruit bats with a 'SARS-like' virus called WIV1 at a lab in Montana in 2018. The research, which found that the virus did not cause a robust infection, highlights the ties between the US government and the Wuhan lab, as well as the funding of dangerous virus research worldwide. The experiment was a joint venture between the NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina.

via Daily Mail|
#animal-experiments#anthony-fauci#coronavirus-research
politics2 years ago

US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins debunks lab leak theory.

A report by the US intelligence community found no direct evidence of a "biosafety incident" or pre-pandemic presence of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. While some lab researchers fell ill in the fall of 2019, US intelligence agencies remain divided on whether the pandemic began through natural transmission or by accident. The report notes that some scientists at the institute genetically engineered coronaviruses through common practices, but there was "no information" indicating such work was done on the virus that causes COVID-19. China has consistently denied that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab.

via CBS News|
#china#covid-19#origins
politics2 years ago

"Biden administration reveals intelligence on Wuhan lab as Covid origin."

The US intelligence report on the origins of Covid-19 says that both natural and laboratory-associated origins remain plausible hypotheses. The report confirms that researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in the fall of 2019, but it's not certain that they were sick with Covid-19. The report also confirms that the Wuhan lab did not always adhere to safety protocols in studying coronaviruses. The intelligence agencies are divided on the origin theory, with some favoring the natural origin theory and others favoring the lab leak hypothesis. Republicans in Congress have accused the Biden administration of trying to cover up the lab leak theory.

via POLITICO|
#covid-19#intelligence-report#pandemic-origins
science2 years ago

NIH renews controversial grant for bat virus research linked to Wuhan lab.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has restarted a bat virus research grant that was canceled three years ago under the Trump administration. The original grant funded research into mixing various bat viruses to study SARS and also funded research at the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan, China. The new version of the award, granted to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), will not focus on mixing live bat viruses, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology will no longer be directly involved in research. The EHA will partner with the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore to identify how coronaviruses might infect human cells.

via Fox News|
#bat-viruses#coronavirus-research#grant
politics2 years ago

US funded 'mutant virus' research at Wuhan lab before COVID-19 outbreak

The EcoHealth Alliance used US tax dollars to research "mutant viruses" during its work with the Wuhan lab in China, according to federal grant applications obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The documents suggest that US funding for mutant virus, gain-of-function research may have been responsible for the emergence of the COVID pandemic in Wuhan. The EcoHealth Alliance denies conducting gain-of-function research, and the NIH never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans, according to an agency spokesperson.

via Fox News|
#covid-19#ecohealth-alliance#gain-of-function-research
politics2 years ago

"Biden signs bill to declassify intelligence on potential Covid and Wuhan lab links"

US President Joe Biden has signed a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The move poses political risks for Biden, who is negotiating a difficult relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Beijing vehemently rejects the possibility that a leak during research at the Wuhan lab could have unleashed the global pandemic. The Covid-19 outbreak was first detected in 2019 in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan, leading to almost 7 million deaths worldwide so far, according to official counts, with over a million of them in the US.

via The Guardian|
#biden#china#covid-19
politics2 years ago

"Biden signs bill to declassify Covid-19 origin intelligence"

President Biden signed a bill into law that orders the Director of National Intelligence to declassify within 90 days all information relating to potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and Covid-19. The legislation, called the Covid-19 Origin Act of 2023, aims to provide transparency about what the U.S. knows about how the pandemic started. The U.S. intelligence community is split about the origin of the pandemic, with some supporting the natural origin theory and others leaning toward the lab leak hypothesis. U.S. intelligence agencies will redact their data to protect sources and methods before sharing it with Congress.

via POLITICO|
#biden#covid-19#intelligence