According to a recent report, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China were deliberately combining various coronaviruses in an attempt to develop new mutated viruses just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The same report also suggests that the Chinese military was funding researchers at the Wuhan lab and exploring biological weapons at the same time. According to The Sunday Times’ report, China may have intentionally created mutant coronaviruses with harmful intentions. The article suggests that they may be planning to use the virus as a bioweapon, while simultaneously working on a vaccine for their own people.
“As the world emerged from lockdown, U.S. State Department investigators were given access to secret intelligence on what had been happening in China in the months and years before COVID emerged,” the report read. “More than a dozen investigators were given unparalleled access to ‘metadata, phone information and internet information’ from intercepts collected by the U.S. intelligence services.”
The Sunday Times spoke with three members of the investigative team, which determined: “Wuhan scientists were conducting experiments on RaTG13 from the Moijang mine, and that covert military research, including laboratory animal experiments, was being done at the institute before the pandemic.”
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According to the source, it was stated that nine different COVID variants were being researched by the scientists of the Wuhan lab. In 2012, a group of six men who were cleaning an abandoned copper mine in the Mojiang region of south China got infected with an unknown illness. They showed symptoms of fever, coughs, and pneumonia. Three of them received treatment at a hospital and eventually died. Although the men tested negative for any known diseases, they possessed antibodies for an unknown coronavirus.
The Mojiang cave had a considerable population of bats, which led to the accumulation of their feces, known as guano. Dr. Shi Zhengli, a renowned Chinese researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, discovered a virus in the cave located in the isolated mountains of Yunnan province, Southern China, where the bats lived. Dr. Shi Zhengli is commonly referred to as China’s “bat woman.”
Reportedly, in 2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology combined SARS-like viruses with a cave virus labeled as “WIV1” using the lab’s initials. According to Rutgers University Professor Richard Ebright, this was the most dangerous coronavirus experiment ever conducted. The virus combination proved to be three times more lethal than the original WIV1, killing 75% of the albino mice with lungs similar to that of humans that were infected.
The Sunday Times stated, “The scientists had created a highly infectious super-coronavirus with a terrifying kill-rate that in all probability would never have emerged in nature. The new genetically modified virus was not COVID-19 but it might have been even more deadly if it had leaked.”
EcoHealth Alliance provided grant money to support the gain-of-function experiment. But according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, did not include information about the deaths of infected mice in a progress report to the NIH in April 2018.
According to reports, Daszak requested $14 million in research funding over a period of three years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. However, his application was denied by DARPA.
“The application, entitled Defuse — which names Daszak, Shi and Baric — proposed the Wuhan laboratory find large numbers of new SARS viruses and mix some of them with their two deadly strains from the Shitou cave — WIV1 and SHC014 — to see what would happen,” the Sunday Times said.
It is believed that in November 2019, some researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill and were hospitalized with symptoms resembling those of COVID. According to reports, a family member of one of the laboratory employees also died from a similar unknown illness.
“We were rock-solid confident that this was likely COVID-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus research in the laboratory,” an investigator said. “They’re trained biologists in their thirties and forties. Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”
The Sunday Times reported that two U.S. researchers who worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology claimed that dangerous experiments were being conducted at the lab a month before the virus outbreak, which the West was not yet aware of.
The investigators also saw evidence that the institute was conducting “serial passaging” experiments on at least one of the mine viruses. This is a process in which lab animals are infected with viruses and monitored to see which strain is harmful to their health. The most damaging strain is selected for repeat experiments to encourage the pathogens to mutate into something more deadly. The investigators spoke to a Wuhan institute insider who alleged serial passaging experiments were being carried out on RaTG13. “Humanized mice with the serial passaging is a toxic combination,” said a source. “It speeds up the natural mutation process. So instead of taking years to mutate, it can take weeks or months. It guarantees that you accelerate the natural process.”
Dr. Steven Quay, a U.S. scientist who advised the State Department on its investigation, said, “There has never been an example of a bat virus directly infecting humans and killing.”
Quay believes COVID-19 was created by inserting a furin cleavage site into one of the mine viruses and then serial passaging it through humanized mice. He submitted a statement to the U.S. Senate explaining the process. “You infect the mice, wait a week or so, and then recover the virus from the sickest mice. Then you repeat. In a matter of weeks this directed evolution will produce a virus that can kill every humanized mouse.” This explains why from the beginning of the outbreak, he says, the pandemic virus was so remarkably well adapted to infect humans.
The Sunday Times reported that information regarding the experiments is not available for public access as it was a confidential program backed by the Chinese military. According to the findings of U.S. State Department investigators, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been carrying out experiments on the Chinese military’s behalf since 2017 at least.
The report stated, “The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons. If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power.”
A U.S. investigator told the British outlet, “My view is that the reason Mojiang was covered up was due to military secrecy related to [the army’s] pursuit of dual use capabilities in virological biological weapons and vaccines.”
The Sunday Times reported:
The PLA had its own vaccine specialist, Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist at the academy, who had collaborated with the Wuhan scientists on a study of the MERS coronavirus and was working with them at the time of the outbreak. Suspicion fell on him after the pandemic because he produced a patent for a COVID vaccine with remarkable speed in February 2020, little more than a month after the outbreak of the virus had first been admitted to the world by China. A report published in April, co-authored by Dr Robert Kadlec, who was responsible for the U.S.’s vaccine development program, concluded that Zhou’s team must have been working on a vaccine no later than November 2019 — just as the pandemic began.
TL;DR
The Sunday Times reported that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been conducting dangerous experiments with a genetically modified virus and serial passaging it through humanized mice since 2017, for a possible bioweapon. This might explain why the virus was so well-adapted to infect humans right from the start of the outbreak. Furthermore, U.S. State Department investigators revealed that the Chinese military was involved in developing a vaccine for these viruses, and their own specialist Zhou Yusen had produced a patent for a COVID vaccine only one month after China announced the outbreak to the world – leading experts to believe he had already begun work on it by November 2019.
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