Time.news – The case is open. It is no longer a Trumpian provocation. The investigations are serious. American intelligence agencies have opened the file on the origin of Covid-19: a modified bat coronavirus in the Wuhan laboratory that could be behind the pandemic. Washington government officials have leaked it, while the hypothesis of an unnatural origin of Covid-19 gains momentum, complete with a mea culpa from the American mainstream press that would have rejected it a priori only because it was ridden by The Donald .
A high-voltage investigation
“It’s true, I think a lot of people had ham-lined eyes,” admits Jonathan Karl of the ABC network during the Sunday program “This Week”, “this was a hypothesis put forward earlier by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, and Donald Trump. Well, some things may be true even if Donald Trump is saying them. Only that Trump also said much more, out of control, with racist connotations, talking about ‘Kung Flu’ and ‘China virus’. ” The former head of the Cdc (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Robert Redfield revealed in recent days that he had suffered death threats for claiming that Covid comes from the Wuhan laboratory.
The virus under investigation by the US 007, called RaTG13, was reportedly mentioned for the first time in January in a report by the State Department. The same month, virologist Steven Quay (who participated in a study on the State Department virus) published research titled: “A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond any reasonable doubt that Sar-Cov-2 is not a natural zoonosis, but rather derived in the laboratory “). Quay describes RaTG13 as “an entity that is not purely biological, but shows evidence of genetic manipulation in the laboratory”. Pay attention to the calendar. On May 24 Quay is heard in Congress. On May 26, Joe Biden announces an investigation to be completed within 90 days into the origins of the coronavirus.
Question, why did you wait until May? Here it is the response of the White House spokesperson Jen Psaki: “The president actually asked the intelligence community to make an assessment, to start an internal investigation, which was presented to him in March. When it was completed several weeks ago, he asked to go public, to declassify the information. This is a time-consuming process. Once the result of the survey was obtained, we were presented with a number of options for public communication, and the president decided he wanted to do an even more thorough examination, with our laboratory scientists and experts, involving more members of our national security team, to see if more can be found in these 90 days. This is the right timeline ”. Psaki categorically excludes that this hypothesis has not been promptly examined: “Clearly the president has ordered internal investigations, as happens all the time. We rarely talk about it in public. We took steps to declassify them and it happened at the beginning of his administration ”.
The American 007 report
The clouds over the Chinese laboratory are becoming denser after the report by the American services, (initially classified) published by the Wall Street Journal, on “three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in November 2019”, one month before the official disclosure of the first cases of Covid-19 in the city where it all started. Suspects credited in the last hours by Anthony Fauci. The most well-known and listened virologist on the planet, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid) asks China to be able to see 9 medical records, those of the 3 Wuhan researchers who fell ill in 2019 and those of the six miners ( including 3 dead) who fell ill after being in a bat cave in 2012, which was later explored by scientists from the Chinese laboratory to take samples. “What do these people’s medical records say? Were they carriers of the virus?
It is entirely plausible – Fauci tells the Financial Times – both that the origin of Sars-CoV-2 is in the cave and that it has started to spread naturally and that it has made a passage in the laboratory ”.
An American virologist who prefers not to be named explains to the Time.news that RATG13 does not necessarily represent an immediate precursor to Sar-CoV-2 but this does not reduce its relevance because it could provide important information on how it may have been modified or replicated. Indiscretions, suspicions. The Sunday Times of London writes of British spies who initially ruled out the hypothesis of a laboratory origin of the coronavirus and now consider it possible. “There may be evidence that points us in one direction or another, but the Chinese will lie anyway, I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth,” one of the British 007s now working with US intelligence told the City newspaper. verify the hypothesis of a test-tube origin of Covid. The investigations are very serious. And in Beijing they understood the impact of the change of leadership in the White House, there is no longer Trump and with Biden there is now global consensus that was missing before to get the investigation off the ground.
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