EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Expert Says Virus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab

[mystery-ak]

Andrew Kerr
Investigative Reporter
April 02, 2020 8:28 PM ET

    Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC, said Thursday that it’s possible that COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab.
    Shi Zhengli, China’s leading virologist on bat-borne viruses, said in March that she lost sleep worrying that the virus could have leaked from her lab in Wuhan after she first learned of the virus in December.
    Shi now tells those who share the concerns she once had to “shut their stinking mouths.”

A molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC said Thursday in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses, Shi Zhengli, has sworn on her life that the virus did not leak from her Wuhan lab, saying that its spread was “nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.”

But Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that there is a real possibility that the virus entered the human population due to a laboratory accident.

When asked specifically if he believes the virus could have leaked from Shi’s lab in Wuhan, Ebright said: “Yes.”

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https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-leaked-wuhan-institute-virology-richard-ebright-shi-zhengli/

[jafo2010]

Accidentally?  What difference does it make if it was an accident or not?  NONE!!!

It was created by the Chicoms, and they are responsible.  I say the western world shuts interaction with China by 80%, for a prolonged period of time, say ten years.  Reduce trade by 80%.  Perhaps then they will get the idea of how to fit in the world.  They are a rogue nation, and should be treated accordingly.

China should be made to pay the expense incurred from this virus in every country.  They tried to cover up this outbreak knowing EXACTLY where it came from.  That was not a mystery to them.  It got out of control, and now they need to answer and pay.

[mountaineer]

The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs
By Jim Geraghty
April 3, 2020 1:20 PM

There’s no proof the coronavirus accidentally escaped from a laboratory, but we can’t take the Chinese government’s denials at face value.

It is understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the coronavirus could be discovered by some documentary filmmaker who used to live in China. Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos, contends he has identified the source of the coronavirus — and a great deal of the information that he presents, obtained from public records posted on the Internet, checks out.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China indeed posted a job opening on November 18, 2019, “asking for scientists to come research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats.”  ...

On December 24, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a second job posting. The translation of that posting includes the declaration, “long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses has confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and livestock infectious diseases such as SARS and SADS, and a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified.” ...

Tye contends that that posting meant, “we’ve discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come deal with it.” He also contends that “news didn’t come out about coronavirus until ages after that.” Doctors in Wuhan knew that they were dealing with a cluster of pneumonia cases as December progressed, but it is accurate to say that a very limited number of people knew about this particular strain of coronavirus and its severity at the time of that job posting. By December 31, about three weeks after doctors first noticed the cases, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organization and the first media reports about a “mystery pneumonia” appeared outside China.   ...

National Review

[sneakypete]

 Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist,AKA "Captain Obvious"........

Jist ain't nuttin gits past that boy,iz dere?

[Fishrrman]

Could the COVID-19 have come from the Chinese lab?

Possible, but going to be very difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

If it in fact did, was its release intentional?

I doubt this. But again, almost impossible to prove before the world.

If it in fact did, did it escape through an accident or negligence?

That could be the real answer. Again, "if it did"...

[Smokin Joe]

From Nature.com
(NOTE the date of the article)

    Letter
    Published: 09 November 2015

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985.pdf (downloadable)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 Web page that gives information on authors (click on author's name)

Note the Authors, and that among them, Xing-Yi Ge is from

Xing-Yi Ge

    Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

and (I missed this the first time I posted this information) Zhengli-Li Shi

Zhengli-Li Shi

    Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

From the Abstract:

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.

Considering the Wuhan Lab connections, was the work done in North Carolina shared/stolen/transferred and used to make the SARS-CoV-2 strain that causes COVID-19?

I am not accusing any of these researchers of any improper activity, but the connection to the epicenter of this outbreak is hard to ignore.

[dfwgator]

Accidentally?  What difference does it make if it was an accident or not?  NONE!!!

It was created by the Chicoms, and they are responsible.  I say the western world shuts interaction with China by 80%, for a prolonged period of time, say ten years.  Reduce trade by 80%.  Perhaps then they will get the idea of how to fit in the world.  They are a rogue nation, and should be treated accordingly.

China should be made to pay the expense incurred from this virus in every country.  They tried to cover up this outbreak knowing EXACTLY where it came from.  That was not a mystery to them.  It got out of control, and now they need to answer and pay.

The bottom line is the Chinese figured if they're going to go down with this virus, they were going to take the rest of the world with it.

[Bigun]

The bottom line is the Chinese figured if they're going to go down with this virus, they were going to take the rest of the world with it.

The CHICOM military has been wargaming biowarfare for at least 10 years and probably longer.