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A trove of documents released last week by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) may “explain why no one has been able to find the SARS2 virus (aka SARS-CoV-2) infesting a colony of bats,” according to one prominent science reporter.
Writing for City Journal, Nicholas Wade, former science editor for The New York Times, said the newly revealed documents — which showed U.S. scientists were planning to work with scientists from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to develop novel coronaviruses, provide evidence that COVID-19 “has never existed in the natural world.”
The USRTK documents revealed that scientists involved with a joint U.S.-China research proposal — “Project DEFUSE” — a year before the outbreak of COVID-19, planned to engineer coronaviruses that would be rare in nature, and that had many similarities with the genome of SARS-CoV-2.
The Story of the Decade: New documents strengthen—perhaps conclusively—the lab-leak hypothesis of Covid-19’s origins. By Nicholas Wade, former longtime NYTimes science journalist & editor.https://t.co/UXMBdlU3nt
— Gary Ruskin (@garyruskin) January 25, 2024
Meanwhile, an investigation by Public published Tuesday revealed the FBI received credible intelligence in March 2020 that COVID-19 had leaked from the WIV — long before the FBI or U.S. government acknowledged a possible lab leak.
And blogger Jim Haslam, who has written extensively on COVID-19’s origin, reported this week that University of North Carolina researcher Ralph Baric, Ph.D., who has worked with Peter Daszak, Ph.D., president of the EcoHealth Alliance, patented genomes “less than 2% different” than SARS-CoV-2, in 2018.
Daszak and Baric were both closely involved with Project DEFUSE.
Commenting on the new developments, Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright, Ph.D., a frequent critic of gain-of-function research, told The Defender:
“Two or three dozen corrupt scientists, most in one narrow subfield of science, have damaged, possibly irreparably, public trust in the many tens of thousands of scientists across all fields of science.
“Science, as a whole, needs to excise and eliminate the tumor, expelling the two-to-three dozen who caused the pandemic and defrauded the public.”
"Both Beijing and Washington have covered up information about the origin of SARS2."
"Washington’s obfuscation has been aided by…[complicit]…intelligence agencies…and by a mainstream press too opinionated and ignorant of science to understand the story of the decade." https://t.co/fmioaZS7V4 pic.twitter.com/PWple4uv2X
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) January 26, 2024
COVID ‘had all the unique properties’ of a virus produced in a lab
According to Wade, the documents “provide a recipe for assembling SARS-type viruses from six synthetic pieces of DNA designed to be a consensus sequence — the genetically most infectious form — of viruses related to SARS1, the bat virus that caused the minor epidemic of 2002,” Wade noted.
EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak said furin cleavage site insertions would be "beyond the pale" two years before FOIA'd docs revealed EcoHealth's intention to do furin cleavage site insertions. https://t.co/eqLo5iTZio pic.twitter.com/0pkTLZK48P
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) January 22, 2024
“Prior independent evidence already pointed to SARS2 having just such a six-section structure,” he added.
According to the New York Post, EcoHealth submitted the DEFUSE proposal to the Pentagon-affiliated Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), proposing experiments to increase the transmissibility of bat coronaviruses to humans. The application included a request for a $14 million grant to conduct this research.
“The grant proposed to ‘introduce appropriate human-specific cleavage sites’ into SARS-related viruses, a procedure that could have led to the creation of SARS2, with its distinctive furin cleavage site, depending on the starting virus used for the manipulation,” Wade wrote.
However, the DEFUSE proposal concealed plans to conduct this research at the WIV, the USRTK documents revealed, and also left out the name of a Chinese researcher — Shi Zhengli, sometimes referred to as the “Bat Lady” — who was involved with this research.
“The new drafts show the authors planned to synthesize eight to 16 strains of SARS-type bat viruses, selected for their likely ability to infect human cells,” Wade said, “to make a vaccine to immunize bats in regions that military troops might have to enter.”
Haslam noted that while “FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] vaccine approval for humans takes 15-20 years,” for research conducted on animals, the approval period is “just 2-5 years.” He described this as a “bureaucratic loophole” that “created a huge incentive for live bat research.”
There were close similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and the DEFUSE proposal and contradict virologists who claim COVID-19 developed naturally, Wade said.
“The genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, matches the viruses described in the research proposal,” USRTK wrote, while according to Wade, “When SARS2 first appeared in the world, it had all the unique properties that would be expected of a virus made according to the DEFUSE recipe.”
“Instead of slowly evolving the ability to attack human cells, as natural viruses must do when they jump from animals to humans, SARS2 was immediately infectious to people, possibly because it had already been adapted in humanized laboratory mice to the human cell receptor,” Wade added…
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