Senate Report Concludes COVID Likely Caused by Lab Leak
A new Senate report concludes that the likely origin of the pandemic was a lab leak in Wuhan, China, the latest government-led assessment in recent months to make the same conclusion.
"The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research," said the report, which was the result of an investigation led by former senator Richard Burr.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by Axios, points to biosafety issues in Wuhan and the behavior of the virus in its early stages as indicators of a lab origin. It looked at the other widely cited possible origin of animal transfer but concluded the lab leak is stronger.
The release of the report comes weeks after federal agencies also endorsed the lab leak theory. The Energy Department in February admitted that the pandemic likely emerged from a lab. The same month, the FBI said it has long known the lab leak theory was "most likely."
The lab origin was a known possibility since the beginning of the pandemic, but officials sought to suppress it. Former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who recently said he still thinks adults should get COVID boosters "at least once a year," commissioneda report in February 2020 to dismiss the lab leak theory. Two months later, he cited the report during a White House press conference and pretended to not know the authors.
The National Institute of Healths funded organizations that gave money to the Wuhan lab, specifically for the risky gain of function research that may have been the source of the pandemic virus.
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Laporan Senat Menyimpulkan COVID Kemungkinan Disebabkan oleh Kebocoran Lab
Ben Wilson
Laporan Senat baru menyimpulkan bahwa kemungkinan asal usul pandemi adalah kebocoran laboratorium di Wuhan, Cina, penilaian terbaru yang dipimpin pemerintah dalam beberapa bulan terakhir untuk membuat kesimpulan yang sama.
"Kebanyakannya informasi menegaskan masuk akalnya insiden terkait penelitian yang kemungkinan tidak disengaja akibat kegagalan penahanan keamanan hayati selama penelitian terkait vaksin," kata laporan itu, yang merupakan hasil penyelidikan yang dipimpin oleh mantan senator Richard Burr.
Laporan tersebut, salinan yang diperoleh oleh Axios, menunjukkan masalah keamanan hayati di Wuhan dan perilaku virus pada tahap awal sebagai indikator asal laboratorium. Itu melihat yang lain secara luas mengutip kemungkinan asal-usul transfer hewan tetapi menyimpulkan kebocoran laboratorium lebih kuat.
Rilis laporan terjadi beberapa minggu setelah lembaga federal juga mendukung teori kebocoran laboratorium. Departemen Energi pada bulan Februari mengakui bahwa pandemi kemungkinan muncul dari laboratorium. Pada bulan yang sama, FBI mengatakan telah lama mengetahui teori kebocoran laboratorium "kemungkinan besar."
Asal lab adalah kemungkinan yang diketahui sejak awal pandemi, tetapi para pejabat berusaha untuk menekannya. Mantan penasihat medis Gedung Putih Anthony Fauci, yang baru-baru ini mengatakan dia masih berpikir orang dewasa harus mendapatkan penguat COVID "setidaknya setahun sekali," menugaskan sebuah laporan pada Februari 2020 untuk menolak teori kebocoran laboratorium. Dua bulan kemudian, dia mengutip laporan itu selama konferensi pers Gedung Putih dan berpura-pura tidak mengenal penulisnya.
Institut Kesehatan Nasional mendanai organisasi yang memberikan uang ke laboratorium Wuhan, khususnya untuk keuntungan berisiko dari penelitian fungsi yang mungkin menjadi sumber virus pandemi.
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