How did the corona virus originate?

The origin of the emerging corona virus "Covid-19" is still a mystery, so what is the latest data about it?

Will we ever be able to know how it originated?

A report issued by the World Health Organization last March called for more studies and the provision of more data on the origin of the Corona virus, stressing at the time that "all hypotheses are still on the table."

What is the opinion of the American intelligence?

We start with the latest data, as the US intelligence services said Friday that they may be completely unable to determine the origin of “Covid-19”, in a new, more detailed formulation that it issued about its vision regarding whether the Corona virus was transmitted from animals to humans or leaked from someone. laboratories.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said - in a declassified report - that both the natural origin and the leak from a laboratory are reasonable assumptions regarding how humans were initially infected with "SARS-Cove-2".

But he added that analysts differ on which is more likely or whether a final assessment can be reached.

The report also excluded the assumptions that the Corona virus originated as a biological weapon, and considered that those who hold this theory “do not have direct access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in China, where the first infections of the disease were discovered, and that they are accused of spreading lies.

What are the current theories of the origin of the Corona virus?

1- Transmission to humans through an intermediate host

In this scenario, an infected animal transmitted the virus to another animal, then transmitted it to a human being, and the infected person, without his knowledge, spread the virus to others who were in contact with him, which led to the outbreak of the epidemic.

While the virus has been found in animals such as bats and pangolins, one link is missing, and this is thought to be because there may have been an intermediate animal that the virus passed through before coming into contact with a human.

The Corona virus has shown to be highly adaptable, and it can infect other animals (such as minks, tigers, cats, dogs, etc.) as well.

2- Transmission of infection directly from an infected animal

In this scenario, direct animal-to-human transmission occurred, without any intermediate animal present, and the virus then continued to spread between humans.

3- frozen food

This scenario suggests that frozen food products could be a means of transmission of the virus from an infected animal to a group of people.

The virus can spread through food products or packages, and there has been some evidence of the virus in frozen foods imported into China, but it is limited.

4- Leak from the laboratory

In this scenario, the virus leaked from a laboratory in China or was biologically engineered, which implies that a laboratory worker was infected accidentally and then the virus spread.

Have Wuhan labs really tampered with coronaviruses?

In the report published by the French newspaper "Lefigaro", writer Adrian Golems said that researchers were partially able to confirm some doubts related to the possibility that Wuhan laboratories had genetically manipulated Corona viruses, contrary to what it had officially stated earlier.

The NGO EcoHealth Alliance, which funded some of this research with US public funds, also appears to be uniquely lacking in transparency.

The writer pointed out that these discoveries made Anthony Fauci - senior adviser to Joe Biden on health issues and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - in trouble because he had previously told the Senate this summer that the National Institutes of Health did not fund research involving genetic manipulation of the Corona virus.

Nearly 22 months after the outbreak of the epidemic, the National Institutes of Health admitted last week - in a letter to Congress - that the "Eco Health Alliance" had already funded research conducted by the Institute of Virology in Wuhan on bat viruses.

This research aims to modify the virus to make it more contagious to humans, which is still a matter of great contention among many researchers due to its seriousness.

The letter also states that the Echo Health Alliance violated the terms of the NIH grant by not reporting the result of research that caused a 10-fold increase in virus infection, and the National Institutes of Health described in its letter the result of this research as “unexpected,” but I refrained from using the term career gain.

These questions were raised again at the beginning of September, when the news site The Intercept published more than 900 pages of documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act on NIH grants to the EcoHealth Alliance.

Among these documents are two grant applications submitted by the NGO;

One proposal is titled "Understanding the Risks of Emerging Bat Corona Viruses," and the document describes in detail a potentially dangerous research project on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.

The first version of these documents obtained by The Intercept, more than a year after it was requested, did not include the latest reports on the progress of the grant file that was supposed to be submitted by the EcoHealth Alliance at the end of 2019.

That report was eventually included in the National Institutes of Health's letter to Congress last week.

The document, dated August 2021, describes a "limited experiment" in which lab mice infected with the modified virus were worse off than those infected with the "natural virus."

On September 20, another worrying element emerged about the role of the EcoHealth Alliance and its director, Peter Daszak, after a group of independent investigators calling themselves Drastic (short for the Radical, Independent, Decentralized COVID-19 Investigative Team) 19) By publishing a $14 million grant request report that the NGO submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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NGO has proposed partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct genetic manipulation experiments on Corona viruses.

Risks Associated With Research

DARPA rejected the proposal, arguing that it did not take into account the risks associated with the research, but it stunned researchers, especially by noting a distinctive part of the genetic code of "SARS Cove-2" that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to penetrate cells effectively.

The writer says that all these documents partially contradict the statements of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who denied before the US Congress last July that the National Institutes of Health knowingly funded research in the field of genetic manipulation of viruses, in response to accusations made by Republican Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul.

However, Fauci admitted that he is not sure how the Chinese lab will use the grants it has received.

Commenting on this, Senator Paul said - in an interview with Axios on Sunday - that Dr. Fauci "should be fired for his lack of acumen."

For his part, Dr. Fauci told ABC that he strongly disagrees with Senator Paul and that he is very wrong.

He explained, "Neither I, nor Dr. Francis Collins - Director of the National Institutes of Health - lied or misled public opinion about what we did; it is impossible for the viruses we worked on to turn into Covid-19."

The report notes that most intelligence agencies doubt that COVID-19 is "non-genetically modified," but they do not have enough evidence to reach a conclusive conclusion.

Although the recent findings do not confirm or deny another hypothesis, they do indicate a lack of transparency in the funding provided to Chinese virus research by US federal agencies.