The Chinese virologist, who was one of the first to put forward the theory of the origin of the coronavirus from a laboratory in Wuhan, called COVID-19 “unlimited biological weapons.” According to her, the Chinese government and “some foreign scientists and organizations” are hiding it.
Virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who was one of the first to defend the theory of the appearance of COVID-19 in the Wuhan laboratory, claims that the coronavirus is a biological weapon, and the American infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci was among the scientists and organizations who knew about it and tried to hide it. , according to the Daily Mail.
In an interview on Newsmax, Dr. Li-Meng Yan said that Fauci’s emails published Tuesday by Buzzfeed and the Washington Post prove the American expert was aware of pre-pandemic virus experiments to expand functionality in China.
“These people knew what had happened, but they chose to hide for the sake of the Chinese Communist Party and their own benefit,” says Dr. Yan.
As the Daily Mail notes, the scientist published three reports – two last year and one in 2021.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan stated, “The causative agent of COVID-19 is not a natural pathogen, but an unlimited biological weapon. It is the product of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government’s biological weapons program, which includes not only CCP scientists but also some overseas scientists and organizations. ”
All three reports were published on the Zenodo universal repository without peer review, according to the Daily Mail.
The Wuhan lab leak was initially considered a crazy conspiracy theory by the far-right to blame China for the pandemic, until President Joe Biden announced that his administration was exploring that possibility as well.
British intelligence recently reviewed the theory and raised its credibility from “distant” to “feasible,” according to The Sunday Times.
This was followed by the publication of an email from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, where over 3,200 of his letters from January to June 2020 were received and published by Buzzfeed and the Washington Post. One of these letters was referenced by Dr. Yan during an interview with Newsmax.
One of Fauci’s direct reports, Dr. Hugh Okincloss, wrote in an email to Fauci on February 1, 2020 that “the experiments were conducted prior to the suspension of function enhancement, but have since been reviewed and approved by the National Institutes of Health.”
As the Daily Mail explains, Okincloss discussed the document that Fauci sent him. Functional improvement studies include experiments aimed at increasing the transmissibility and / or virulence of pathogens.
In her March 31 report, Dr. Yan wrote, “SARS-CoV-2 was created from the ZC45 and ZXC21 pattern viruses that were originally found in bats by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists. Subsequent laboratory modifications made it capable of infecting humans and also increased the pathogenicity, transmissibility and lethality of the virus. ”
An MIT peer review that condemned Dr. Yan’s work said: “If this evidence is correct, it will support the alarming claim that SARS-CoV-2 is a man-made virus; however, if the claims are not properly substantiated, the work is defamatory, grossly negligent and ethically questionable. ”
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former Research Fellow in Virology and Immunology at the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, before fleeing to the US in April 2020, told The Washington Post in February that she was using the Zenodo research repository because of the possibility instantly publish information without restrictions. She told The Washington Post that she fears the Chinese government will obstruct the publication of her work.
Dr. Yan rose to prominence after being interviewed in the U.S. by Fox News last July and reported that from late December 2019 to early January 2020, some doctors in mainland China warned their colleagues on WeChat groups that the new coronavirus could be transmitted. from person to person. According to her, the Chinese authorities have long known about the new coronavirus. The scientist also accuses WHO of collaborating with Beijing to cover it up.
After the publication of her reports, the woman was ostracized. Twitter closed her account for several months. Scientists from leading American universities downplayed the significance of her reports, saying they were deeply flawed, writes the Daily Mail. And even the Zenodo resource, where Dr. Yan published her reports without any review, posted a warning about her research work: “Beware: potentially misleading content.”
It is noted that “there has been ongoing critical review that this entry does not meet the standards of scientific rigor or balance, and thus the main statements may not stand up to scientific research.”
Despite controversy and backlash, Dr. Yan’s September 21, 2020 article was viewed over 1.2 million times and used in multiple reports.
But now that the Biden administration is joining global pressure for China to be more open about exploring the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, Dr. Yan’s work is coming to the fore.
Meanwhile, Beijing still insists that the virus simply mutated and passed naturally from animals to humans, probably from a market in Wuhan.
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