While I was away on an absolutely delightful vacation in the Caribbean, much news broke on the possibility, often covered here, that the novel coronavirus pandemic stems from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I will play a little catch-up as the revelations align with much of the information I have gleaned after a diligent review of little-promoted reports over the past three years.
To begin with, new emails uncovered by House Republicans investigating the pandemic reveal Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-retired coronavirus advisor to the White House, commissioned and had final approval on a scientific paper written in February 2020 designed to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab.
That paper, titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” was sent to Fauci for editing in draft form and again for final approval before it was published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 17, 2020.It was written four days after Fauci, and his NIH boss Dr. Francis Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab and “may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.”The House Oversight subcommittee published emails Sunday in which the paper’s co-author Dr. Kristian Andersen admits Fauci “prompted” him to write the paper with the goal to “disprove” the lab leak theory.
A few weeks later, Fauci cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory was unlikely during a White House press conference with President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, top scientific advisors confirmed to Congress that mounting evidence covid leaked from the Wuhan lab. The former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) accused Fauci of trying to cover up the claims because they didn’t fit his narrative.
Experts, including a former Biden staffer and Donald Trump’s CDC director, testified to the House subcommittee investigating COVID that taxpayer-funded gain-of-function likely caused the virus that came from the Chinese facility.Dr. Jamie Metzl, a self-identified Democrat who worked for President Biden when he was in the Senate, said he favored the lab leak theory because ‘the Chinese government has done everything in its power’ to stonewall investigations.Republican Rep. Jim Jordan also tore into Dr Anthony Fauci for ‘trying to cover his backside’ over the lab leak claims, and Trump’s CDC director Robert Redfield claimed the Biden COVID advisor ignored hs concerns because ‘they wanted a single narrative and I had a different point of view.’…Redfield called for a moratorium on gain-of-function research until there was a ‘consensus’ on its benefit to society.Redfield said there was evidence of the virus as early as September 2019 and stated three now-declassified ‘highly irregular’ findings pointing to the lab leak theory – he said researchers deleted sequences, changed command and control of the WIV from civilian to military and allowed a contractor to redo the ventilation in the lab, which Redfield called ‘really telling.’Rep. James Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, asked all four witnesses about the Proximal Origins paper from early 2020.’Yes or no was there science available to make such an unequivocal statement against the possibility of a lab that early in February?’ the Kentucky Republican asked.Three witnesses said no, Democratic witness Auwaerter said he didn’t have ‘sufficient’ evidence to say.
The gain-of-function issue is an important aspect of this review. EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit at the center of covid lab leak questions, claims it’s just a ‘coincidence’ the virus emerged in the city where it funded risky research.
…The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing was addressed by former Clinton administration official Dr Jaime Metzl, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chief under Donald Trump, Dr Robert Redfield.Also featured was a former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade, among other speakers, tied the research to the pandemic’s origins.’Mr. Wade’s other “strongest pieces of evidence” for a laboratory origin also fail to stand up to scrutiny,’ EcoHealth said in a statement.’He claims that the emergence of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is “evidence” for laboratory origin, rather than just a coincidence – but he provides no data to demonstrate that his assumption is correct.’
I covered veteran science writer Nicholas Wade’s recently detailed review of the pandemic, in which he made a persuasive case that a leak from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology must be seriously considered as the source of the contagion.
I suspect this is the start of the flood of damning revelations about the real covid misinformation campaign, in which Fauci appears to be a major contributor.
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