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Top 17 reasons Covid-19 likely came from a lab.

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    Three researchers working at a Wuhan virology lab went to the hospital with Covid-like symptoms weeks before the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in China on December 8

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    In May 2020, the World Health Assembly requested the World Health Organization determine origins. Although there were no findings in clear support of either a natural spillover or a lab accident, the Chinese half of the team that collected and summarized the data, assessed a laboratory incident as ‘extremely unlikely’.

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    Only 4 of the 313 pages of the WHO China report and its annexes addressed the possibility of a laboratory accident.

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    The methods, results, and names of people in the World Health Organization are not being released.

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  • 5

    Cao Bin, a doctor at the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, debunked the theory that coronavirus spread from Wuhan animal market, stressing that the research showed that 13 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with the infection did not come in contact with the market. "It seems clear that the seafood market is not the only origin of the virus," he said.

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  • 6

    Wuhan Institute of Virology is located ten miles from the now infamous wildlife market.

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    Shi Zhengli, told Scientific American that she herself "never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan." She'd have expected it to happen in South China, where these viruses are naturally found. A South China virus would have been vastly more likely to trigger an outbreak in South China, which is exactly what happened with the first SARS in 2002.

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  • 8

    Researchers at Livermore’s “Z Division,” the lab’s intelligence unit, issued the report May 27, 2020, classified “Top Secret.” Its existence is previously undisclosed. The Z Division report assessed that both the lab-origin theory and the zoonotic theory were plausible and warranted further investigation.

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  • 9

    Nicholas Wade (a science writer with an actual degree in natural sciences and has been previously published in Nature, Science, and the New York Times) demonstrated the most logical conclusion one can draw from all the available evidence is that the coronavirus is likely a modified virus, which came from an accidental release in the laboratory.

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  • 10

    The Wuhan Virology Lab Was Studying Bat Coronaviruses

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  • 11

    2019-nCoV Is a 96% Match For A Bat Virus In The Wuhan Virology Lab

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  • 12

    An Infected Bat Bled On A Researcher Shortly Before The Outbreak

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  • 13

    SARS Escaped From A Beijing Lab Twice

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  • 14

    In 2015, two researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology participated in an international experiment led by American scientist Ralph Baric.[20] The goal? Create a new coronavirus with the ability to infect human beings.

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    Infectious disease specialist Daniel Lucey got the chance to review the documents and data China had in its possession when 2019-nCoV broke out, and he came out of it baffled. Their official story, he said, just didn’t make any sense.“China must have realized the epidemic did not originate in that Wuhan Huanan seafood market,” Lucey told the press.

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  • 16

    On Jan. 2, 2020 — the day after the Huanan seafood market was blamed for the disease — the Wuhan Institute of Virology sent out a disclosure strictly “prohibiting disclosure of information” on 2019-nCoV.

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  • 17

    On Feb. 14, 2020, President Xi gave a speech on the need to contain 2019-nCoV. Chinese, he said, needs to “learn our lessons… so we can strengthen our areas of weakness and close the loopholes exposed by the epidemic.

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