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- Outgoing State Secretary Mike Pompeo claims that the US government has reason to believe several researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in autumn 2019, long before the first admitted cases of COVID-19.
- Pompeo said that the symptoms were consistent with COVID-19 without revealing more details about the claims.
- The press release calls for the WHO to press China's government for more details surrounding the alleged infections at the Wuhan lab, experiments on a bat coronavirus strain studied in the lab, and military ties to the Wuhan lab.
Just as the World Health Organization’s probe into the origins of COVID-19 is starting, outgoing US State Secretary Mike Pompeo dropped a bombshell on Friday, claiming the existence of new information that supports the idea of COVID-19 having accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan. In the early days of the pandemic, conspiracy theories flourished online surrounding the idea that the novel coronavirus was created in a lab. According to these completely unfounded theories, the virus was either engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), escaped accidentally after infecting employees, or a combination of both. President Trump and some administration members have entertained the idea, even though scientific and intelligence reports agreed that the most likely explanation was that the virus evolved naturally in animals. Some still argue that the lab accident idea has merit and shouldn’t be overlooked during the WHO's investigation.
China has vehemently denied that the virus escaped a lab and sought to distance itself as much as possible from the virus. The country has been pushing all sorts of theories for the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, saying it might have appeared in Europe or the Indian subcontinent before arriving in Wuhan. But China has also been delaying the WHO investigation as much as possible, receiving plenty of criticism in the process. Many have also criticized China for its failure to address the threat in the Wuhan epidemic's initial days and share information transparently with other nations.
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Mike Pompeo says there’s evidence the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 13:37:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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