Covid DID come from Wuhan lab, says new analysis of patients, records and virus' makeup: '70% chance'
Daily MailResearchers used a risk tool to determine chance Covid was of 'unnatural' origin After being denounced as a conspiracy for years, the Covid lab leak hypothesis is now considered the most likely origin of the virus, according to a new analysis. Shi Zhengli - dubbed the 'Bat Lady' or 'Bat Woman' for her work on bat coronaviruses - investigated the possibility Covid could have emerged from her lab back in 2020, according to colleagues Between 2015 and 2023, at least seven US entities supplied NIH grant money to labs in China performing animal experiments, totaling $3,306,061 The study said: 'The origin of is contentious. All four characteristics scientists sought to create in a novel virus in a 2018 research proposal match features of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid The above is an email from Peter Daszak to researchers included in a 2018 project proposal The above is an email from Peter Daszak to researchers included in a 2018 proposal talking about work to be done by scientists as part of a project While controversial, the Covid lab leak theory - that the virus was borne out of gain-of-function research at Wuhan Institute of Virology bankrolled by the US taxpayer through Dr Anthony Fauci's former department - has been endorsed by the FBI and other government agencies. However, lab leak supporters were recently emboldened after it was revealed that American and Chinese scientists sought to create a Covid-like virus just a year before the pandemic began.