WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – A bipartisan House subcommittee has concluded its investigation into the origins of the Coronavirus epidemic, concluding that the virus originated from a gain-of-function research lab located in China.
According to the New York Post, the Republican-led bipartisan House Select Subcommittee’s report found that “the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis four years after the onset of the worst pandemic in 100 years.” The subcommittee cited documents that provided details that showed that gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was sponsored by the nonprofit company EcoHealth Alliance in hopes of developing a virus with “SARS-CoV-2’s defining features.”
“In their application to DARPA, EcoHealth and its WIV partners stated their intent to create a SARS-like virus with a furin cleavage site, which is the same feature that made humans susceptible to COVID-19 infection,” the report continued.
In May of this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suspended EcoHealth from all federal grants for failing to submit the studies it conducted at the WIV and for “likely violating protocols of the NIH regarding biosafety.”
The subcommittee is not the first government agency to reach this judgment; in recent years, the FBI and the Energy Department’s National Laboratories reached similar conclusions. FBI Director Wray stated in March 2023 that “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
This report comes over a year after a Substack article co-authored by Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger, and Alex Gutentag stated, that “significant new evidence” was revealed that “strengthens the case that the SARS-CoV-2 virus accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” with their report citing multiple U.S. government officials who confirmed that the first people to contract COVID-19 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu, all of whom are researchers who led the Institute’s research on SARS-like coronaviruses.
President-Elect Trump has proposed stiff “reparations” against the communist government of China in recent days worth upwards of $50 trillion to be paid to nations like the U.S. that were impacted by the pandemic. At this time, the CCP has refused to cooperate with investigations into the Wuhan Institute of Virology, insisting that the virus originated in animals and spread to humans from a wet market located in Wuhan.
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