The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has discovered new evidence that the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, not only originated in the Wuhan Lab, but that there was an active campaign to cover up the fact that gain-of-function research was ongoing there.

“We know gain-of-function research was happening at the WIV and we know it was being done in unsafe conditions” Rep. Michael McCaul said in a press release. “We also now know the head of the Chinese CDC and the director of the WIV’s BSL-4 lab publicly expressed concerns about safety at PRC labs in the summer of 2019.

“It is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019. When they realized what happened, Chinese Communist Party officials and scientists at the WIV began frantically covering up the leak, including taking their virus database offline in the middle of the night and requesting more than $1 million for additional security.”

The committee also discovered the steps that Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance — which is funded in part by Dr. Anthony Fauci through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — took to cover up research being done at the lab.

Additionally, the new evidence “breaks down how scientific papers written by researchers at the WIV not only prove the WIV was doing dangerous genetic modification research on coronaviruses at unsafe biosafety levels, but also that WIV researchers had the ability to genetically modify coronaviruses as early as 2016 without leaving any trace of that modification,” the press release said.

SOURCES:

House Foreign Affairs Committee August 1, 2021

COVID-19 House Investigation Addendum August 2021

Foreign Affairs Committee Final Report September 21, 2020