"A splashy new page on the White House website doesn’t mince words about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In its most direct remarks yet, the Trump administration reveals its summary findings on the origin of the coronavirus, which was originally suspected to be an animal-to-human mutation but more recently has been concluded to have been artificially created. U.S.
Those findings were outlined on the White House’s new page titled “Lab Leak: The True Origin of COVID-19” and featuring a somber President Donald Trump.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, long a nemesis of the president, was implicated immediately for relying on limited data to “push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally” rather than in a Chinese lab, which received funding from sources close to the National Institutes of Health, where Fauci had long worked.
The White House outlines findings purporting to show that COVID-19 either escaped or was intentionally released from the Wuhan lab:
--The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
--Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics, where there were multiple spillover events.
--Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
--Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
--By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
Public health experts and members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee confirmed that a wet market located 7.5 miles away from the Wuhan lab was apparently not within proximity of where the first cases were diagnosed. At the time, athletes came down with COVID-19 while participating in the Wuhan World Military Games, which had sites much closer to the lab."
--Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics, where there were multiple spillover events.
--Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
--Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
--By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
Public health experts and members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee confirmed that a wet market located 7.5 miles away from the Wuhan lab was apparently not within proximity of where the first cases were diagnosed. At the time, athletes came down with COVID-19 while participating in the Wuhan World Military Games, which had sites much closer to the lab."
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