Evidence supporting Covid lab leak theory mounts

 Legal Insurrection:

A recently revealed letter is now being added to the pile of evidence that the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A letter from Lawrence Tabak, the National Institutes of Health’s principal deputy director, to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) confirms that the NIH funded research at the WIV during 2018-2019 that manipulated a bat coronavirus called WIV1.

Researchers at the institute grafted spike proteins from other coronaviruses onto WIV1 to see if the modified virus was capable of binding in a mouse that possessed the ACE2 receptors found in humans — the same receptor to which SARS-CoV-2 binds. The modified virus reproduced more rapidly and made infected humanized mice sicker than the unmodified virus.

Starting in 2014, the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, funded the New York-based research nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance with annual grants through 2020 for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”

…Tabak’s letter asserts that the modified virus becoming more virulent “was an unexpected result” and not “something that the researchers set out to do” — an odd claim, considering that the whole point of manipulating the virus was to investigate things that could make it more virulent.

Tabak goes on to explain why the altered viruses where not handled at the higher levels of biosafety containment that are more appropriate for diseases that can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through inhalation.

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This revelation will lead to even more pressure for Peter Daszak, head of the EcoHealth Alliance research organization at the center of this investigation, to testify as to what actually happened in Wuhan.

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There is more.

The attempt to deny the lab leak theory looks ineffective.  Actually blaming it on negligence is a step down from blaming on a deliberate attempt by China and those working with China to kill people.

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