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10 reasons we KNOW that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Lab
By Marty Makary
June 19, 2023 5:35pm Updated
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It’s becoming undeniable: COVID came from a Chinese lab
At this point, the only people who believe COVID did not leak from a
Wuhan lab are diehards with I (Heart) Fauci bumper stickers.

The evidence is clear: The pandemic was the result of irresponsible
science. Here are 10 reasons why:

1. The “suicide” of the Wuhan lab collaborator, Dr. Yusen
A key Chinese scientist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of
Virology, Dr. Zhou Yusen, filed for a patent for a COVID vaccine on
February 24, 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian.

The early timing of his filing raises concerns that the unnamed vaccine
was in development months before the COVID-19 pandemic became public.

Yet less than three months after filing his patent, Dr. Zhou Yusen died
under mysterious circumstances.

The Chinese media said he died from “falling off the roof” of the Wuhan lab.

Evidence points to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China
being the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Evidence points to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China
being the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images
Dr. Zhou Yusen filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2020
shortly before his alleged suicide.
Dr. Zhou Yusen filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2020
shortly before his alleged suicide.
2. Wuhan lab workers were the first COVID patients
In an April 2020 interview, I told Fox News that an infected Wuhan lab
worker was most likely patient zero of the pandemic.

The National Institutes of Health called it a conspiracy theory and
Facebook and Google censored it, calling it misinformation.

New evidence published this month confirms that what I said was true and
identifies the first infected lab workers by name.

Chinese scientist Ben Hu was identified as one of the three "patient
zeros" of COVID-19.
Chinese scientist Ben Hu was identified as one of the three “patient
zeros” of COVID-19.
3. The lab had a detailed plan
One year before the emergence of COVID-19, scientists at the Wuhan lab
submitted a detailed research plan to the US Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency to create a Frankenstein coronavirus.

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The virologists cited their preliminary research showing that they were
able to do it.

They proposed engineering a furin cleavage gene into SARS-like
coronaviruses to enable the virus to infect mammalian cells. That’s
exactly the genetic makeup of COVID-19, and what makes it so deadly.

Their motive may have been biodefense-related, but mostly likely it was
based on the ancient scientific myth that such research could help
predict a future pandemic or enable a vaccine before a pandemic occurs —
neither of which has ever happened.

The researchers also submitted proposals to the US State Department, but
Secretary Tony Blinken has denied multiple requests to make those grants
public.

4. China destroyed all records from the lab
Keeping a lab book to record all experiments is a standard and
universally adopted convention in science. But remarkably, there are no
lab records for the key coronavirus experiments performed at the Wuhan
lab. There are also no source samples.

Researchers who experiment on viruses do, however, routinely report
those genetic sequences to an international virus registry housed by the
NIH.

Researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017.
Researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017.
Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images
Wuhan lab researchers had reported virus sequences to the NIH registry
but then called in June 2020 to ask for that information to be deleted.

The NIH honored the Chinese request and promptly deleted the virus
sequences in the NIH registry.

5. Top virologists had told Dr. Anthony Fauci that it came from a lab
On January 27, 2020, a panicked Dr. Fauci called an emergency meeting of
top virology experts to talk about the origin of COVID.

Three of them told him they believed it came from a lab.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by top virology experts in early 2020 that
the virus likely originated in a lab.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by top virology experts in early 2020 that
the virus likely originated in a lab.
Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University specifically told Dr. Fauci, “I
just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature . . . Of
course, in the lab it would be easy to generate the perfect 12 base
insert that you wanted.”

6. Fauci was Orchestrator of the Natural Origin Theory
At the end of Fauci’s emergency meeting with virologists in January
2020, a consensus was reached to “1) don’t write a paper at all and 2)
If you do write it don’t mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel
to the conspiracists.”

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Four days later, some of those same virologists who voiced their belief
that COVID came from a lab co-authored a propaganda article in Nature
Medicine concluding emphatically that COVID “is not a laboratory construct.”

The lead author wrote in his cover letter that the article was “prompted
by” Drs. Fauci and Francis Collins, then head of the NIH.

By April 16, 2020 a frustrated Dr. Collins emailed Dr. Fauci about the
lab leak theory, “Wondering if there is something the NIH can do to help
put down this very destructive conspiracy.” Fauci replies, “I would not
do anything about this right now. It is a shiny object that will go away
in times.”

7. China arrested the first doctors who treated COVID
The Chinese government promptly arrested the first doctors at the Wuhan
hospital who treated COVID.

Dr. Li Wenliang is most likely the doctor who cared for the first
infected lab workers. He sounded the alarm on human-to-human
transmission on WeChat, the popular social media messaging app in China.

Three days later, the police showed up and detained him and eight
others. Li was forced to sign a confession that he was “making false
comments.”

The statement read: “We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn,
with such impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be
brought to justice — is that understood?” Li responded in writing: “Yes,
I do.”

China arrested Dr. Dr. Li Wenliang after he treated the first COVID-19
patients.
China arrested Dr. Li Wenliang after he treated the first COVID-19 patients.
LI WENLIANG/GAN EN FUND
Soon after, Li contracted COVID and died. He was a healthy appearing
34-year-old — a risk profile close to zero. It’s also curious that there
were conflicting reports about his death on Chinese State TV.

Dr. Ai Fen, a close friend of Li, carried his torch and continued to
warn people. She was the director of the emergency department at Wuhan
Central Hospital.

She also posted warnings and was later reprimanded by the authorities.
She gave a pleasant interview to a Chinese magazine and then went
missing for a few weeks.

8. A lab leak caused the 1977 flu Chinese epidemic
There is a precedent for a lab leak.

In 1977, there was an epidemic in China of an influenza H1N1 strain that
had the same genetic code as a flu strain from 20 years prior. The
epidemic turned into a pandemic.

Fauci prompted virologists to write a journal article that stated COVID
“is not a laboratory construct.”
Fauci prompted virologists to write a journal article that stated COVID
“is not a laboratory construct.”
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Flu viruses are genetically fragile by nature, making it impossible for
a strain to last over 20 years outside of a lab.

Just before the 1977 pandemic, the Chinese government was injecting
military recruits with a mysterious substance.

A famous Chinese physician had subsequently admitted “the introduction
of this 1977 virus [as] the result of vaccine trials.” An estimated
700,000 people died from the flu strain that year.

9. The lab is 5 miles from the world epicenter
One of the only labs in the world manipulating coronaviruses was right
next to where we can trace the beginnings of the pandemic. That’s not a
coincidence.

The Wuhan wet market was initially blamed for the outbreak of COVID.
The Wuhan wet market was initially blamed for the outbreak of COVID.
AP Photo/Dake Kang, File
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is just five miles away from the market.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is just five miles away from the market.
Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images
The wet market was blamed, but testing of large swaths of animals
revealed no animal source.

10. Wuhan lab conditions were abysmal
The Wuhan Institute of Virology claimed to be a Biosafety Level 4 lab —
the highest standard.

But in 2018, the US Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of
repeatedly sending US science diplomats to the Wuhan Lab. They found
that the lab functioned at Level 2, at best.

In the words of US virologist Dr. Richard Ebright, the biosafety
conditions were comparable to that of a US dentist’s office.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was supposed to be a Biosafety Level 4
lab, but American scientists found that it was only at Level 2 in 2018.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was supposed to be a Biosafety Level 4
lab, but American scientists found that it was only at Level 2 in 2018.
Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images
And anyone who’s worked in a lab, as I have, will tell you that in most
labs, accidents can be common.

Conclusion
Former US National Intelligence director John Ratcliffe, who had access
to all intelligence during the rise of COVID-19, has said “My informed
assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government’s
intelligence . . . has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the
only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and
by common sense.”

The facts are clear. But downplaying them has become a political badge
for many Democrats.

The origins of COVID represents the greatest liability case in the
history of the world.

People understandably want closure after enduring tremendous societal harm.

Security guards outside of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a WHO
investigation on February 3, 2021.
Security guards outside of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a WHO
investigation on February 3, 2021.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
It’s time for the US to be an international leader in calling for a
treaty banning all dangerous gain-of-function research using the
principles in a 2016 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine report setting standards for virus research.

The document identifies seven types of pathogen research that should
never be performed given the risk to humanity.

The experiment types became known as “the seven deadly sins.” The Wuhan
Lab was committing some of them.

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What do you think? Post a comment.
We need to prevent what happened before, when Fauci continued to fund
dangerous gain-of-function research despite President Obama placing a
moratorium on it.

An updated position paper outlining specific types of gain-of-function
research has been carefully laid out by Dr. Laura Kahn in the Georgetown
Journal of International Affairs.

This framework should be adopted internationally in the form of a treaty
with active monitoring and verification.

Marty Makary MD, MPH is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay.”

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Comments include

Douglas26
19 hours ago

The fact that it was a lab leak has always been a dead cert. The only
question was if it was done purposely. I believe it was and, as such,
was an Act of War.

Nowaybigguy
4 hours ago

But if it was done purposely by the Chinese government - wouldn't it
make sense to have it originate someplace in Africa? Why would you leak
it from Wuhan? Actually - if it was done purposely in Wuhan - it would
suggest it was somebody besides the Chinese who did it - maybe someone
like the Democrats in Washington who were going to lose the election
big-time to Trump until COVID showed up and they could lie to us and
tell us that they could do a better job.

Ultra One
14 minutes ago

The theory about Democrats has many indicators:

Their obsessive cover-up.

Attacking anyone that said anything contrary.

The attacks of Trump's handling, when they obviously could have done no
better, and didn't.

And of course, the goal: get rid of Trump.

MJ Ross
22 minutes ago

I personally think they had planned on leaking it in another country
like you're saying, however, the lab being as unsafe as it's reported to
be, I think it was accidentally leaked in the lab and that's why so many
original creators were killed.

J T
18 hours ago

U S war on its own citizens, China scapegoat to goad people into war.
It’s a war on you

Alpha Control
7 hours ago

And here is the real theory:

The lab "leak" was done purposely by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Why?

Because prior to the pandemic the largest threat to the CCP was Donald
Trump being elected to a second term as POTUS. The CCP had to think of
a way to mitigate that. They knew a world pandemic would have far
reaching economic and political consequences and they could utilize that
to get their "man" in office as POTUS. China was the only nation of the
G8 to post a positive gain in the economy in 2020. Makes sense, because
they produce all of the medical items, (gloves, syringes, masks etc).
They capitalized on social media, which drives the "mainstream media" to
pummel the Trump, with the pandemic response, and all the ongoing
political persecution (steele dossier, impeachment hearings etc). They
masterfully pulled this off, which gives us our present "mess" that we
are into today. The CCP continues to this day to undermine US politics
and elections, AND if they need to will gladly sacrifice a Million + of
their own citizens and others again to acheive their goals of global
domination.