The following is from The Vaccine Reaction.

More evidence has emerged that the Covid-19 pandemic began when a lab engineered mutated coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) leaked from a biohazard lab in Wuhan, China.

Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which was filed by the nonprofit public health research group U.S. Right to Know, have revealed that in 2018, scientists at the Wuhan Virology lab (WIV) had plans to make coronavirus spike proteins capable of infecting human cells that would be “inserted into SARS-CoV backbones.”

The proposal called Project DEFUSE, which discussed inserting the spike protein into the SARS CoV-2 virus, was created by the New York based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance.

A written proposal from Peter Daszak, PhD, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, and submitted by email to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) read,

Isolation will be attempted on a subset of samples with novel SARS-CoVs. Prof. Ralph Baric, UNC, will reverse engineer spike proteins in his lab to conduct binding assays to human ACE2 (the SARS-CoV receptor). Proteins that bind will then be inserted into SARS-CoV Backbones, and inoculated into humanized mice to assess their capacity to cause SARS-like disease, and their ability to be blocked by monoclonal therapies, or vaccines against SARS-CoV (REF).

SARS-CoV-2 Lab Leak Theory Now “Almost Certain”

While DoD ultimately denied this risky proposal to deliberately genetically engineer a bat virus to cause severe respiratory illness in humans, the recently disclosed documents support the lab leak theory for the origins of COVID. Matt Ridley, PhD, a biologist and science writer who has covered the lab leak theory, suggests the new evidence basically confirms it:

This latest [document] leak makes the case for a lab leak almost certain.

The proposal sought to add the spike proteins to furin cleavage sites of SARS-CoV-2, which would allow the virus to bind more readily to human receptor sites. Manipulating bat coronaviruses by binding the spike protein to furin cleavage sites, which is what caused the SARS-CoV-2 virus to become a global pandemic, has led many scientists to believe that this proposal is a blue print for how to make SARS-CoV-2 in a lab.⁴

Richard Ebright, PhD, a chemical biologist at Rutgers University said of the documents:

These revelations are important because the experiments in the grant proposal likely – indeed highly likely – led to the creation and release of SARS-CoV-2.

EcoHealth Alliance Allegedly Hid Key Facts from Department of Defense

Daszak’s alleged attempt to hide any potential national security risks, along with the fact that this risky research would be conducted in a biosafety level 2 lab (BSL-2) that had fewer safety precautions than the biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab in Chapel Hill came to light in comments Daszak made to his colleagues.

Daszak’s comment read:

… If we win this contract, I do not propose that all of this work will necessarily be conducted by Ralph [scientist at Chapel Hill], but I do want to stress the U.S. side of this proposal so that DARPA are comfortable with our team. Once we get the funds, we can then allocate who does what exact work, and I believe that a lot of these assays can be done in Wuhan as well…

Daszak also remarked that he intended to minimize the work that would be conducted outside the U.S. by focusing on his resume and that of Ralph Baric, PhD, a scientist at Chapel Hill rather than focus on the scientists at the lab in Wuhan, China.

Dr. Daszak wrote:

I’m planning to use my resume and Ralph’s. Linfa/Zhengli [scientists at WIV], I realize your resumes are also very impressive, but I’m trying to downplay the non-U.S. focus of this proposal so that DARPA doesn’t see this as a negative.

Released EcoHealth Alliance Documents “really damning”

Dr. Ebright explained the insights brought to light by the new documents:

The new documents reveal that EcoHealth Alliance planned to use U.S. Department of Defense funds to perform high-risk virus experiments at WIV at a biosafety level that was inadequate for research with a potential pandemic pathogen… The new documents also reveal that EcoHealth Alliance deliberately concealed these plans—both the plan to perform high-risk experiments at WIV and the plan to perform them using inadequate biosafety protections—from the U.S. Department of Defense in order to improve the chances of receiving funding.

Justin Kinney, PhD, a quantitative biologist and cofounder of Biosafety Now, said:

That’s really damning. These revelations are important because these specific experiments could, quite plausibly, have led to the genetic engineering and accidental release of SARS-CoV-2… BSL-2 experiments are more convenient and less expensive than BSL-3 experiments … However, BSL-2 provides a far lower level of biosafety than BSL-3 does. This lower safety level is especially dangerous for experiments involving viruses that can be transmitted by air.

While DARPA rejected the proposal, the possibility remains that the experimental research was conducted without their financial backing.

 The documents add to what many consider a smoking gun confirming the lab leak theory, especially since the first three cases of COVID in the world for the novel coronavirus reportedly were lab workers working on gain of function research at the Wuhan lab, including lead researcher Ben Hu, who is widely considered to be “patient zero.”

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