Three virologists from Wuhan seriously ill with Covid as early as November 2019

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Time.news- Three researchers from the Wuhan Chinese Institute of Virology were seriously ill with Covid-19 as early as November 2019, to the point of requiring hospital treatment.

This was revealed by a US intelligence report kept top secret so far, and revealed by the Wall Street Journal.

The report supports the thesis of a State Department information sheet, released during the last days of the Trump administration, according to which several researchers from the Chinese laboratory (it is a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens) have fallen ill. in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and the common seasonal disease”. In short, there are possibilities that the virus escaped from a laboratory, and that it was not ‘the fault’ of the pangolin.

Just a few days ago the ‘in chief’ immunologist of the White House, Anthony Fauci, direttore del National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (Niaid), responding to the Time.news on the sidelines of a meeting at the Italian embassy in Washington, he admitted that he did not rule out that the virus “was created in the laboratory”. And he added: “It is important that an independent, objective, non-partisan investigation is carried out.”

And no later than ten days ago, in an article published by the journal ‘Science’, about twenty scientists active in some of the most prestigious research centers in the world, suggested not to exclude with certainty that the origin of the pandemic was a Coronavirus escape from the Wuhan virology laboratory. In other words, an accident.

The news revealed by the Wall Street Journal about the existence of this report which specifies the number of sick researchers, the course of their infection and even their hospitalization arrives on the eve of a meeting of the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, which should discuss precisely the origins of Covid-19.

Anonymous sources close to the dossier underline the validity of these indiscretions, as well as their accuracy: for this reason, in the information sheet it is written in black and white that sick virologists became infected with Covid-19, and even seriously to the point of ending up in hospital .

November 2019 is also the approximate date identified by many epidemiologists and virologists on the beginning of the spread of the virus, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Beijing claims that the first confirmed case was a man who fell ill on December 8, 2019. No sharing of data, of laboratory records, by the Wuhan institute.

China has always denied that the virus escaped from one of its labs. On Sunday, the Chinese foreign ministry called into question the report of a team led by WHO, following a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology last February, according to which a leak of the virus from the laboratory is to be consider yourself extremely unlikely.

“The United States continues to tout the laboratory leak theory,” the foreign ministry said in response to a request for comment from the Wall Street Journal. “Does he really care about tracing the source or is he trying to divert attention?” Was the provocative rejoinder.

The Biden administration instead declined to comment on the intelligence fact sheet, merely observing that all technically credible theories on the origin of the pandemic should be examined by the WHO and international experts.

“We continue to ask ourselves questions about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic within the People’s Republic of China,” said a spokesperson for the National Security Council, according to reports from the WSJ. But, he added, “as a matter of politics we never comment on intelligence matters”.

The Beijing government has even advanced the hypothesis that the virus may have originated outside China, and precisely in a laboratory at the Fort Detrick military base in Maryland, and has already asked the WHO to investigate the first outbreaks of Covid- 19 in other countries. However, a hypothesis rejected by most scientists and obviously also by the White House, according to which there is no credible basis on which to launch an investigation.

The Chinese National Health Commission and WIV have entrenched themselves behind the no comment. Rather Shi Zhengli, the leading coronavirus expert at WIV, told the WHO-led team that all staff had tested negative for Covid-19 serology.. And a Dutch virologist who was part of that team, Marion Koopmans, had reported (always remembers the WSJ) that some researchers from the Chinese center had fallen ill in the fall of 2019, but had attributed the malaise to seasonal ailments.

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