EXCLUSIVE: Classified study found COVID-19 could have originated in Chinese lab | WJLA

According to a fact sheet released by the State Department on January 15, WIV personnel work closely with the Chinese military and have conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus with the closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2 percent). The lab has also published findings from gain-of-function research, which is aimed at increasing the transmissibility of viruses among humans.

This area of scientific activity, experts told Sinclair, carries a dual-use : It supports the development of new vaccines and therapeutics but can also be used in covert biological- and chemical-weapons programs, which China is suspected of maintaining. The State Department fact sheet said China is working to engineer chimeric viruses. In its 2021 report, issued this month, the State Department s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC) said the dual-use applications of China s scientific research raise concerns about its compliance with Article I of the Biological Weapons Convention enacted in 1975, to which China is a signatory. That article prohibits member states from pursuing biological weapons.

The dual use of gain-of-function research has in turn divided proponents of the lab-origin theory into two main camps. Both believe SARS-CoV-2 accidentally leaked from WIV personnel, but one camp attributes the accident to legitimate medical research, the other to prohibited biological-weapons research.

Analysts said the State Department s claim of a close working relationship between WIV and the People s Liberation Army (PLA), the Chinese military, was well founded. Any sort of institution that works on matters that could be construed as relating to national security which the Wuhan Lab would absolutely fall under that category we should expect standard operating practice is that they would have a close relationship with the Chinese Communist Party and with the PLA, said American University history professor Justin Jacobs, a China scholar.

via wjla.com

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