A new report from the U.S. Senate has found the COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions round the globe was unleashed by not one, but two leaks from the China lab in Wuhan where the U.S. was paying for “gain-of-function” research.
That is lab work intended to make already bad viruses more deadly, or more easily spread.
The Daily Mail reported on a 301-page Senate report released this week by Sen. Roger Marshall. It highlights “a series of previous failures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and notes that there are no known naturally-occurring incidents of COVID-19,” the report said.
Marshall, a physician, heads the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions panel.
He said the report is important in researchers’ efforts to expose “the deception of those that sought to conceal how this pandemic started.”
Previously, a number of officials have claimed that COVID-19 jumped naturally from animals to people, but the report says that no longer can be considered to have the “presumption of accuracy.”
Instead, it charges that what is plausible is a research-related incident that probably was unintentional, but still let the virus loose because of the failure of the lab’s biosafety containment.
The report explained, “The authors of the report, published in conjunction with the Muddy Waters Group, Dr. Bob Kadlec and Dr. Bob Foster, said that the evidence is ‘circumstantial,’ and have only been hampered by lack of cooperation from China.”
WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews
In fact, China has deliberately withheld critical information about COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.
The report explains that Chinese lab employees started developing at least two COVID vaccines in November 2019, and that was a month before the first cases in China were reported. The first U.S. case was confirmed on January 20, 2020.
The report said the existence of the vaccine at that time “means SARS-CoV-2 would have been present at the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) before the known outbreak of the pandemic.”
The Chinese Communist Party also was responding to COVID-19 “months” before the rest of the world even knew it existed, all the while failing to tell the rest of the world of its disaster, Marshall said.
A report from Just the News noted that Marshall’s comments included a warning that a new virus could break out of China.
He and his staff reviewed more than 50,000 documents to assemble the report, and cited “two unintentional lab leaks” as the source of the calamity.
“This report concludes most likely this was two leaks,” Marshall explained.
“The possibility of a lab leak in the September-October [2019] time frame, even as early as July or August, was followed by vaccine development in November 2019. And then another lab leak seems to be the most sensible explanation in this retrospective review.”
The report found the U.S. government was paying for that gain-of-function research. Marshall said the Wuhan lab was understaffed, didn’t have the proper facilities for that work, and that all creates a huge ongoing concern.
Critically, he faulted the Wuhan setup because there are no U.S. scientists overseeing the Chinese work.
“If we’re funding it, then they need to conform to our rules, and we need American boots on the ground,” he said.
He also said much information will is being concealed by the Chinese government – and the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.
“There are key data points that are being held back,” he said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Question: Why do the political and corporate leaders of America – long the freest, most successful, most prosperous and most Christian nation in history – bow and scrape before China, a ruthless, communist, totalitarian and explicitly atheistic dictatorship openly committed to ruling the world, including America?
The astonishing answers come into focus only when one contemplates both the unprecedented level of political and financial corruption in America’s ruling class (multiple Biden family members received $31 million in payola from China), and simultaneously the communist Chinese government’s brilliantly devious methods of unconventional total warfare, by which China is stealthily infiltrating, subverting, corrupting and colonizing the United States of America.
The China threat has rarely been more dramatically or pointedly documented than in the sensational March issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “HOW CHINA IS CONQUERING AMERICA.” Whistleblower is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.
Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!