On Friday evening, the Biden administration published a previously-classified intelligence report the contents of which demolish years of false claims, uncritically promoted by the entire spectrum of the US media and political establishment: that the US government possesses evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was a man-made virus created by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China.
The report directly refutes claims recently made by three leading US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal—that the United States has evidence that researchers at the institute were hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms before the start of the pandemic, and were thus the proverbial “patient zero.”
The report declared that the researchers’ symptoms were “not diagnostic of COVID-19,” and “could have been caused by a number of diseases and some of the symptoms were not consistent with COVID-19.” Critically, the document declared, “We have no indications that any of these researchers were hospitalized because of the symptoms consistent with COVID-19.”
The report affirms that the Wuhan Institute of Virology acquired SARS-CoV-2 after it began to spread widely throughout the population of Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. “Information available to the IC [intelligence agencies] indicates that the WIV first possessed SARS-CoV-2 in late December 2019, when WIV researchers isolated and identified the virus from samples from...
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