A new investigation has claimed three Wuhan lab scientists researching Covid-19 were the first to test positive
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Multiple US government officials reportedly told the journalists, in the autumn of 2019, the three scientists were researching "gain-of-function" experiments with the virus when they became unwell. Gain of function research is medical research that genetically alters an organism and increases its infectiousness and makes pathogens stronger in order to better understand their dangers.
The department stated in a now-archived, but still available to read, fact sheet published in January 2021: “The US government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.”
On Sunday it was claimed that scientists in Wuhan also worked alongside the country’s military to combine the world’s most deadly viruses before the Covid pandemic began. An investigation by The Sunday Times claimed US investigators believe one of the reasons why there is no published information on the work is because it was done in collaboration with researchers from the Chinese military.
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