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19 Apr 2020, 11:50 am
It is a rare glimpse inside the Chinese laboratory at the centre of mounting inter-national suspicion about the Covid-19 pandemic – and will do nothing to dispel fears that it was caused by a catastrophic leak which has been covered up by Beijing.Pictures from inside Wuhan’s secretive Institute of Virology show a broken seal on the door of one of the refrigerators used to hold 1,500 different strains of virus – including the bat coronavirus which has… [read post]
30 May 2023, 12:27 pm
In a possible sign that the Chinese government may have taken the lab leak theory more seriously than its official statements suggest, Prof Gao also tells the BBC some kind of formal investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was carried out. [read post]
16 May 2021, 9:02 pm
Though the WHO-China report said a jump from animals to humans was most likely, Trump officials have pointed to an accidental escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a highly plausible origin for the pandemic. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 10:37 am
Energy Department believes the virus likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before going on to kill millions around the world. [read post]
3 May 2020, 9:52 am
The bombshell 15-page research document also indicated that some of the five intelligence agencies believe that the virus may have been leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a claim initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory because Chinese officials insisted the virus came from the local wet markets, according to the Australian Daily Telegraph via nypost.com [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 8:32 am
Shi Zheng-li, a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was asked about the lab’s public database disappearance from the internet. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 7:04 pm
The most active is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Shi Zhengli leads a research team that has extensively studied and experimented on bat coronaviruses that are very similar to the one that ignited the global pandemic. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 5:04 pm
has an excellent news article about a Gilead Sciences drug used (in combination with other treatments) to treat the coronavirus, including the attempted patent by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the China’s Military Medicine Institute of the use of the treatment in China. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 4:41 pm
The first is the filing of a lawsuit in federal court by the Governor of Missouri against the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party and other organs (Missouri v, People's Republic of China). [read post]
8 May 2020, 7:50 am
We don’t know if it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 9:09 am
Furthermore, the suit holds the People’s Republic of China guilty of testing the COVID-19 virus on animals within the National Biosafety Laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is believed to have escaped and spread into the nearby market place that sold live animals for human consumption. [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 4:23 pm
The complaint names as defendants (1) the People's Republic of China (PRC), (2) the Communist Party of China (CCP), (3) PRC's National Health Commission, (4) PRC's Ministry of Emergency Management, (5) PRC's Ministry of Civil Affairs, (6) People's Government of Hubei Province, (7) the People's Government of Wuhan City, (8) the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and (9) the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 9:48 am
Klayman and the other plaintiffs don’t pull any punches: Starting in the title of their complaint, they accuse China and the Chinese military, among others, of permitting the coronavirus’s “release from an illegal and internationally outlawed bioweapons facility,” namely, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a biosafety level 4 laboratory located near the center of the outbreak. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 2:10 pm
“International members” included the very high profile researcher Peter Daszak, who himself closely collaborated with, and passed funding to, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and who was thus basically investigating and absolving himself. [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 8:19 am
The hottest public scientific debate of the moment—whether the COVID-19 virus was the product of natural evolution or a laboratory accident—could have been settled easily with a minimal demonstration of communalism (“communism,” actually, in the original Merton vocabulary) from China: Opening the lab books of the Wuhan Institute of Virology would have alleviated concerns immediately. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 10:29 am
Facebook and Instagram even suspended accounts that repeatedly referred to the virus’s possible escape from a lab.The concerted effort to obscure the truth also extended to U.S. scientific and bureaucratic institutions, largely because U.S. government agencies – from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to USAID – funded dangerous research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) from 2014 to 2020. [read post]
10 Jan 2022, 11:52 am
The conversation in late April 2020 involved employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses, including with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; and Metabiota, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company backed by Google that works with PREDICT, a “virus hunting” program that tracks unknown viruses. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 10:02 am
“As a result,” Ebright says, “bat coronaviruses at Wuhan [Center for Disease Control] and Wuhan Institute of Virology routinely were collected and studied at BSL-2, which provides only minimal protections against infection of lab workers. [read post]
6 May 2020, 1:47 pm
But if the Fact Checker is going to make a probabilistic assessment, it needs to think about coincidences, and it should focus on the most glaring coincidence (that the WCDCP was in the same neighborhood) rather than on the less remarkable one (that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which apparently had much safer practices, was in the same city). [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 5:31 pm
He insisted, repeatedly, that an epidemic that started in Wuhan was unlikely to have been the result of an escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). [read post]
