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A new report from the U.S. Senate has found the COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions round the globe was unleashed by not one, but two leaks from the China lab in Wuhan where the U.S. was paying for «gain-of-function» research.
That is lab work intended to make already bad viruses more deadly, or more easily spread.
The Daily Mail reported on a 301-page Senate report released this week by Sen. Roger Marshall. It highlights «a series of previous failures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and notes that there are no known naturally-occurring incidents of COVID-19,» the report said.
Marshall, a physician, heads the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions panel.
He said the report is important in researchers’ efforts to expose «the deception of those that sought to conceal how this pandemic started.»
Previously, a number of officials have claimed that COVID-19 jumped naturally from animals to people, but the report says that no longer can be considered to have the «presumption of accuracy.»
Instead, it charges that what is plausible is a research-related incident that probably was unintentional, but still let the virus loose because of the failure of the lab’s biosafety containment.
