“This report addresses the merits of the two likely pandemic maximum hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological comforts in Wuhan besides WIV,” he said.
The report was declassified in reaction to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which President Biden signed into law in March, which calls for government data on what may have led to the pandemic to be declassified.
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The workers’ security corps stand guard outdoors at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus scale at the Wuhan Institute in central China’s Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
Although the intelligence network has not reached a conclusion on whether the pandemic was triggered by a laboratory leak or by “herb exposure” to an inflamed animal, as in one of China’s wildlife markets, “all agencies continue to assess that a herb and laboratory-associated origin remain credible hypotheses for the first human infection. ” indicates the report.
The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies in the intelligence network have assessed herbal contact with a wild animal as the most likely cause, while the Department of Energy and FBI a lab leak is the most likely cause.
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The report says the CIA and the anonymous firm failed to reach a conclusion, “because the hypotheses are based on vital assumptions or face disorders with conflicting reports. “
But “almost all” agencies felt it was not “genetically modified” and the entire intelligence network that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, “did not evolve as a biological weapon. “
The report says that while the Wuhan Institute of Virology is independent of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the two have worked together on “public health-related studies and collaborated on biosecurity and biosecurity projects,” adding coronaviruses related to animal sampling and genetic studies (e. g. , the work of the Array vaccine) before the pandemic, “but no known virus that could be an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2. “
“Between 2017 and 2019, WIV funded and some of its members conducted studies projects on China’s wisdom on pathogen and disease early precaution functions for the defensive and biosecurity needs of the armed forces,” the report says, adding that the intelligence network has evaluated the work of the vaccine. it was for “public fitness purposes and that coronaviruses known to be used were too far away to have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2. “
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He added that there is no direct evidence of a leak in the lab.
“We still have no indication that the pre-pandemic WIV studies budget included SARSCoV-2 or a close ancestor, nor any direct evidence that an incident involving express studies involving WIV staff occurred. before the pandemic that may have caused the COVID pandemic. Array,” he said.
The study shows that the institute, which is one of the world’s largest bat pattern repositories, first acquired SARS-CoV-2 at the beginning of the pandemic in December 2019 “when WIV researchers controlled and learned about the virus from patterns of diagnosed patients. “with pneumonia of unknown causes. “
The report assessed that some scientists at the institute “likely did not use good enough biosecurity precautions at least some of the time before the pandemic to care for SARS-like coronaviruses, amplifying the threat of accidental exposure to viruses,” adding that prior to the pandemic, the institute had attempted to meet protection standards. (Photo credits deserve to read Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
And while scientists at the institute had in the past created SARS-like coronavirus combinations that are not unusual laboratory practices, the intelligence network paints have no data “indicating that no WIV genetically engineered paint refers to SARS-CoV-2, a very similar progenitor, or a spinal virus “that is connected enough to have been at the origin of the pandemic. “
Some of the techniques used in their genetic engineering projects, however, can hinder “intentional” changes, according to the report.
Regarding laboratory protection, the report assessed that some scientists at the institute “probably did not use good enough biosecurity precautions at least some of the time before the pandemic to care for SARS-like coronaviruses, amplifying the threat of accidental virus exposure. “He added that before the pandemic, the institute had tried standards of protection.
“Nearly a year after WIV’s BSL-4 laboratory accreditation in 2017, China’s decisions related to pathogens requiring superior biocontainment protocols remained opaque, while the facility lacked well-trained personnel,” he said, adding that laboratory scientists continued to conduct SARS testing. -such as coronavirus studies in less rigorous BSL-2 laboratories until January 2019. “Despite acknowledgments dating back to 2017 of the ability of these viruses to directly infect humans, their spike protein and warnings in early 2019 about the danger of this practice. “
An inspection of the institute in 2020, shortly after the pandemic began, also showed that it needed to upgrade equipment, load disinfection cloth and ventilation systems.
The report said several WIV researchers had become inflamed with symptoms mirroring COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, which Fox News had reported in the past.
“The ICR continues to assess that these data do not refute any of the hypotheses about the origins of the pandemic, as the researchers’ symptoms may have been caused by a number of ailments and some of the symptoms were not consistent with COVID-19,” the report said.
Lab scientists who returned in the fall of 2019 with symptoms mirroring COVID-19 later tested negative for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organization said in a 2021 report. ((Photo via Al Bello/Getty Images))
Scientists then tested negative for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organization said in a 2021 report.
Scientists with health problems presented with a variety of symptoms indicative of colds or allergies and some decided to have ailments unrelated to COVID-19, the report assessed.
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A member of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said it released the report on Friday due to the 2023 COVID-19 Origin Law, which “required the intelligence network to declassify data related to possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. “
This is a developing story.
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