Recently released documents, including 1,200 obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, have reignited the debate over the origins of COVID-19. The documents suggest a potential lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A proposal by US and Chinese scientists, known as the DEFUSE grant proposal and led by EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, detailed plans to study and potentially manipulate viruses closely resembling SARS-CoV-2. These plans included engineering viruses with specific properties like a furin cleavage site, characteristic of the COVID-19 virus. Notably, the documents also mention Ralph Baric's work on SARS-like chimeras, which involved bat viruses and could be 20% different from epidemic strains. These findings have sparked controversy as they contradict earlier dismissals of the lab-origin theory by certain scientists, who claimed it was impossible based on the virus's DNA fingerprints.
Lab leak isnt going away. Rejected Wuhan research project hints at origins of pandemic. https://t.co/seSp7IEEos https://t.co/IP83PumT7x
Certain scientists ridiculed the idea that COVID could have come from a lab, saying it's impossible based on DNA fingerprints. Now, those scientists' secret research plans have been uncovered, showing a strategy that could have resulted in a virus exactly like COVID in Wuhan. https://t.co/Iy9euE4LmV
SHOCK: New documents describe experiments that could have generated the virus’ rare properties. They detail the scientists’ interest in working with viruses precisely like SARS-CoV-2 one year before Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab. https://t.co/WVyzREAkcN
I am perplexed that US scientists still have not disclosed work on SARS-like viruses conducted in collab with Wuhan scientists. “RB [Ralph Baric] has already generated SARS-like chimeras.. from group of bat viruses called 293 (for S1) which is 20% different than epidemic strains” https://t.co/CM6Q5g0T40
🚨 New details have been uncovered in the DEFUSE grant proposal led by EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak‼️ US scientists planned to work with 🇨🇳 Wuhan Institute of Virology to engineer novel coronaviruses with the features of SARS-CoV-2 the year before the virus emerged… https://t.co/4Poxp0Nvna
I hear this is the most hotly anticipated story of 2024!!! 1,200 docs obtained by USRTK reveal plans to engineer viruses with the properties of SARS-CoV-2 — including a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction and six restriction sites — in Wuhan. https://t.co/NwXjoVZEdg
Important thread (by a former skeptic of the lab-origin theory) on the question of the origins of COVID. New information comes from a recently released (via FOIA) full research proposal by US and Chinese scientists for studying and cultivating viruses similar to COVID. https://t.co/FwRPML5m2h
🚨🚨 For a long time, it has been assumed that we would never know for certain how covid originated, even as a lab leak seemed highly likely given all the evidence. That was wrong. This stunning piece of new evidence shows the precise lab work that produced the pandemic. https://t.co/LtZSM0kUwL
The US Government and the Wall Street Journal Discover that the CCP Lied about Covid https://t.co/rCBr0DXuF3 https://t.co/EXvC2c4RMK
🚨New bombshell documents tie CCP closer to covert COVID lab-leak plot https://t.co/sZyudL68eu