House Oversight Report Supports Chinese Lab-Leak Theory for COVID-19 Origin

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The report stated that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick with a COVID-19-like virus months before the first case emerged.

A Republican-led oversight subcommittee has concluded that the COVID-19 virus likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, following a two-year investigation into the pandemic.

The House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a 520-page report on Dec. 2, detailing the findings of the subcommitteeโ€™s investigation.

The report found that the U.S. National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and that EcoHealth Alliance Inc. used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate this research at the lab.

It also found that the Chinese communist regime, agencies within the U.S. government, and some members of the international scientific community sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.

The committee said that COVID-19 possesses biological characteristics not found in nature and that data indicates that all COVID-19 cases stemmed from a single introduction into humans, unlike previous pandemics, where there were more spillover events.

โ€œBy nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced,โ€ the oversight subcommittee said in a statement.

The report said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a history of conducting โ€œgain-of-functionโ€ research under low biosafety precautions.

Several researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick with a COVID-like virus months before the first case of the outbreak was allegedly detected at a wet market, according to the report.

The report said that in January 2021, the U.S. State Department published an unclassified fact sheet that stated: โ€œThe U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness.โ€

Citing the fact sheet, the report stated that the Wuhan Institute of Virology โ€œhas a published record of conducting โ€˜gain-of-functionโ€™ research to engineer chimeric viruses.โ€

Byย Aldgra Fredly

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