They revealed that scientists at the Wuhan lab fell ill with symptoms similar to the coronavirus shortly before the start of the pandemic in China.

There is no certainty about the origin of the coronavirus and more and more voices are calling for a thorough and independent investigation to explain this problem. China, meanwhile, is doing its best to thwart any attempt to uncover the truth. And Washington has its eyes on the issue. Recently, A US intelligence report claims that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and required hospital treatment. This information is in line with experts who denounce that the virus escaped from the laboratory in the Chinese city.

According to the report, in 2019, several scientists at the Wuhan lab fell ill “with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.”

The revelation of this episode comes on the eve of the 74th World Health Assembly (AMS, May 24 to June 1), organized by the WHO, which will address, among other topics, the need to open a new investigation into the origin of the coronavirus.

The new revelation from the US intelligence services provides key information: November 2019. This date is important because by the time scientists at the Wuhan laboratory fell ill with symptoms similar to the coronavirus, the first cases of covid-19 also appeared in the Chinese city. Beijing reported the first case of a sick person on December 8, 2019.

China has been reluctant to share information allowing experts to better investigate and uncover the origin of this pandemic, which has killed nearly three and a half million people around the world. For example, Beijing did not provide the raw data or the Wuhan lab records on their extensive research into the coronavirus in bats, he reported. The Wall Street Journal.

Martin Makary, A prestigious doctor, academic and professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, said it was very clear to him that COVID-19 had escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

“The Wall Street Journal reports that laboratory workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to seek treatment in hospital. Note that the doctors of this same hospital were detained by the police!Makary said on Twitter.

In the same vein, the Argentinian businessman Martín varsavsky He said on his Twitter account that there was growing evidence that “the virus came from here (Wuhan Institute of Virology)”.

However, Chinese officials deny virus escaped lab. Shi Zhengli, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, assured the WHO team – who visited China earlier this year to investigate the origin of the virus – that all laboratory staff had tested negative for antibodies to the virus. COVID-19.

Richard H. Ebright, molecular biologist of Rutgers University and biosafety expert, said “It is clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was systematically building new chimeric coronaviruses and assessed its ability to infect human cells and mice expressing human ACE2. “

Members of the WHO team were already aware that some Chinese scientists fell ill in the fall, but dismissed the fact that it was due to the coronavirus and attributed it to seasonal illnesses.

“There have been illnesses because it is normal. But there was nothing that stood out “Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist who was part of the WHO team, said NBC. Maybe one or two. It’s certainly not a big deal, ”he added.

However, the fact that several members of the Wuhan lab fell ill and exhibited coronavirus-like symptoms (fever, body aches, and cough) at the same time the virus began circulating in the Chinese city, does not not stop generating doubts. Especially when you know that Beijing has persecuted and harassed anyone who tried to alert on the first outbreaks of the disease. Yes China, as on many occasions, hid vital information about what was happening in its territory.

David Asher, a former U.S. official who led a team that investigated the origins of the coronavirus under the Donald Trump administration, said that he doubted the lab researchers would get sick with the common flu.

“I highly doubt that three people in highly protected conditions in a level three lab working with the coronavirus will get sick with the flu; that they have to go to hospital (some in severe conditions) and that it has nothing to do with the coronavirus, ”Asher said. And he added that these researchers could be “the first known group” of people with covid-19.

Nicolas wade, one of the world’s most respected science journalists, has led perhaps the most comprehensive investigation into the origin of the coronavirus. According to the researcher, the theory of laboratory leaks from SARS-CoV-2 not only very plausible, but, In reality, is most likely.

“It seems to me that proponents of laboratory leaks can explain all of the available data on SARS 2 much more easily than those who favor natural emergence.”writes Wade in his article, published in the Atomic Scientists Bulletin, a prestigious magazine that deals with issues related to global security and public policy.

In addition to explaining why SARS-CoV-2 is most likely a laboratory-created virus, research from Wade It also explains the incredible series of lack of controls, conflicts of interest and complicity of the Chinese regime and the scientific world, which they continue to make it impossible to determine how the virus appeared and began to spread between humans, which is essential to prevent future outbreaks.

The main argument for the theory of a laboratory-created virus is, according to Wade, clear: the pathogen was from the first moment particularly suitable for infecting humansWhile on the contrary, there is little to no evidence showing a natural evolution from a bat virus to a virus that attacks people.

While the pandemic remains active and the origin of the virus remains unclear, WHO members are meeting on Monday to find ways to avoid another disaster.

The 74th World Health Assembly, which will take place online like last year, “It is undoubtedly one of the most important in the history of the World Health Organization (WHO)»Warned his boss, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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