Tgr Leonardo of 2015 and coronavirus: no link with the ongoing epidemic
Bucci: video 2015 has no connection with Covid-19
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April 16, 2020 US intelligence and American national security executives are examining among the possibilities that the new coronavirus was born, rather than in a market, in a laboratory in Wuhan and that it spread due to an accident. CNN reports this, citing various sources familiar with the dossier, which, however, consider it premature to draw any conclusions. Yesterday the WP reported the news of two US diplomatic dispatches in Beijing which in 2018 warned about the shortcomings of the Wuhan virology laboratory.
Two years before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, diplomats from the US embassy in Beijing visited the Wuhan (WIV) virology institute several times and were so worried that they sent two 'cables' (sensitive but unclassified) to Washington, warning about inadequate security conditions of the laboratory, which conducted risky research on bats. This was revealed by the Washington Post, reporting that in the last two months the information has fueled discussions in the US government whether this or another laboratory in Wuhan could be the source of Covid-19, although for now no evidence has emerged in this sense and the scientific community favors a virus coming from animals and not from test tubes.
The cables warn about the lack of management and security of the WIV and propose more attention and help not only for the importance of studies on coronaviruses of bats but also for their danger. American diplomats, including scientific experts, reported that the Chinese lab's findings "strongly suggest that bat-like SARS-like coronaviruses can be transmitted to humans and cause diseases such as SARS. From a public health point of view, this makes the constant surveillance of SARS-type coronaviruses in bats and studies on animal-human contacts crucial for the prediction and prevention of future coronavirus epidemics. " The appeal fell on deaf ears. The author of the Wp article writes that a senior executive of theThe US administration told him that the cables provide further evidence of the possibility that the pandemic is the result of an accident in the Wuhan laboratory. And he argues that the Beijing version that the virus emerged from the Wuhan wet market is weak, citing research by Chinese experts in the Lancet that the first known coronavirus patient, identified on December 1, had no ties to the market or even beyond a third of those infected in the first large cluster. The market also didn't sell bats.citing research by Chinese experts in the Lancet according to which the first known coronavirus patient, identified on December 1, had no ties to the market and not even more than a third of the infected in the first large cluster. The market also didn't sell bats.citing research by Chinese experts in the Lancet according to which the first known coronavirus patient, identified on December 1, had no ties to the market and not even more than a third of the infected in the first large cluster. The market also didn't sell bats.