The report also highlighted the editorial board of Dr. Shi’s virology journal, Virologica Sinica, which includes members of the Chinese military, the Chinese scientist kicked out of Canada for allegedly shipping deadly viruses to the lab, as well as other top scientists and two employees from USAMRIID:
One concerned member of the editorial board is award-winning virologist Xiangguo Qiu, who was escorted out of a Canadian laboratory in July 2019 after being caught sending deadly virus samples back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Qiu, her husband Kedin Cheng and her students from China were removed from Canada’s only BSL-4 laboratory amid an official investigation. Four months earlier, a shipment containing highly virulent viruses — ebola and nipah — were sent from her laboratory to China. It was reported that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had requested the shipment.
Chemical and biological warfare specialist Dany Shoham, from the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, wrote an article claiming Qiu had made at least five trips over the academic year 2017-18 alone to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Canadian media reported that the viruses that were shipped were not related to the COVID-19 pandemic and that Canadian officials claimed Qiu’s eviction from the lab was not connected to the virus shipments.
“It is suspicious. It is alarming. It is potentially life-threatening,” Amir Attaran, a law professor and epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa, told the CBC. “We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military.”
Markson’s report also highlighted how America’s highly secretive biological research site at Fort Detrick became the “suspected victims of intellectual property theft from scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology”:
In collaboration with Gilead Sciences of Foster City, they had success in 2015 with a treatment that blocked the ebola virus’s ability to replicate. The treatment was an antiviral compound called GS-5734 that became known as Remdesivir. Bavari was one of the scientists behind this antiviral treatment. The drug was touted as a potential treatment option for Covid-19 five years later.
The patent for commercial use of Remdesivir was filed in China. The application was made by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute lodged the patent application on January 21, 2020 — one day after China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the virus, The Daily Mail reported. Asked about this, Bavari said he was not aware the Wuhan Institute of Virology had lodged the patent for Remdesivir.
Markson’s report comes as the U.S. mainstream media has rapidly shifted the narrative on the Wuhan Institute of Virology and whether the coronavirus pandemic originated from an accident at the lab. Initial reports and claims that the lab was the likely origin of the pandemic were dismissed as conspiracy theories, however, the media now treats the theory as credible and legitimate since the Trump administration is no longer in office.
A new report published this week by The Wall Street Journal stated that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) — China’s only Biosafety level-4 laboratory — were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
“The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 ‘with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,’” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins.”
CNN reported on Tuesday that the Biden administration shut down an effort launched during the Trump administration to investigate whether the lab was the origin of the pandemic outbreak.
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