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NBC News report ties Wuhan lab director Shi Zhengli to Chinese military scientists after previous denials



The chief Chinese scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been linked to at least two Chinese military scientists who collaborated with her on coronavirus research, according to a report from NBC News.

Dr. Shi Zhengli, nicknamed China's "bat woman" for her field research collecting coronavirus samples from bat caves, has previously denied accusations that her Wuhan lab conducted studies with the military. But NBC News found that she collaborated with two military scientists on coronavirus work, one of whom is now deceased under unknown circumstances.

The report says that Shi collaborated with Chinese military scientist Tong Yigang on coronavirus research in Spring 2018. And Shi reportedly worked with another military scientist, Zhou Yusen, in December 2019. A scientific paper published in 2020 listed Zhou as decreased, and NBC News was unable to confirm the cause of his death.

Shi's research is known to involve gain-of-function experiments that genetically alter virus samples to make them transmissible among humans for the purpose of studying how naturally occurring pathogens might evolve to become dangerous to human beings.

In January 2021, the Trump administration State Department published a fact sheet that stated "the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China's military."

Former State Department official David Asher, one of the co-authors of the fact sheet, told NBC News that he believes the research was related to Shi's coronavirus work.

"I am confident that the military was funding a secret program that did involve coronaviruses. I heard this from several foreign researchers who observed researchers in that lab in military lab coats," Asher said.

In March 2021, Shi denied that her Wuhan lab was anything more than a civilian institution.

"At the beginning of COVID-19, we heard the rumors that it's claimed that in our laboratory we have some projects blah blah with the army blah blah. These kind of rumors. But this is not correct," Shi told Jamie Metzl, a member of the World Health Organization's advisory board.

Metzl, the "origins COVID-19 whistleblower," was among the first to hypothesize "the most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis is an accidental leak from one of the Chinese virology institutes in Wuhan."

Reacting to the NBC News report, he said that if Shi lied about her work with the Chinese military, it's hard to trust her claims that the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not have the SARS-CoV-2 virus or a "precursor virus" stored in its lab.

"If they did, that would prove the pandemic stems from a lab incident," Metzl said.

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Metzl is one of 31 international scientists who signed an open letter to WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on June 28 calling for a "comprehensive investigation" into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The Chinese government's well documented measures to hide records and prevent Chinese experts from sharing critical information and granular data make it very clear that the current process has no possibility, without significant changes, of fully and credibly investigating all plausible origin hypotheses," the letter states.

The scientists suggest international investigators adopt a "two-track" approach for determining how the pandemic started, one that invites China to fully cooperate and be transparent, and a second plan should China continue to obfuscate evidence.

"While the Chinese government must be offered every opportunity to join a comprehensive investigation into pandemic origins, it should not be afforded a veto over whether or not the rest of the world carries out the fullest possible investigation," the scientists state.

WHO advisory board member admits China engaging in 'massive cover-up' on COVID-19 origins



Jamie Metzl, an advisory board member for the World Health Organization, admitted Monday that communist-controlled China continues to engage in a "massive cover-up" to hide the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Metzl's admission came as the Wuhan lab-leak theory — initially dismissed by American media as a conspiracy theory despite a lack of evidence disproving the possibility — has gained significant traction in respected circles. Some scientists now even say that COVID-19 was engineered by scientists in a laboratory.

What is the background?

Following a rushed investigation earlier this year, the WHO concluded the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was "extremely unlikely."

An investigative team assembled by the WHO reached the conclusion despite being hamstrung by Beijing, which tightly controlled the brief investigation. In fact, Dr. Peter Daszak, a controversial figure who served on that investigative team, later admitted that WHO investigators essentially believed the information that Beijing gave them about COVID-19.

What did Metzl say?

Speaking on Fox News, Metzl revealed the extent of Beijing's campaign to smolder the truth about COVID-19.

"The Chinese have engaged in a massive cover-up that is going on until this day, involving destroying samples, hiding records, placing a universal gag order on Chinese scientists and imprisoning Chinese citizen journalists asking the most basic question," Metzl explained.

"The more that China stonewalls, the more suspicious that it looks," he added, speaking of the Wuhan lab-leak theory.

"China may not want to investigate the origins of this pandemic ... but we can't give China a veto over whether or not we investigate the world's worst pandemic in a century and then do everything we can to make everybody safe," Metzl said.

In a recent interview with CBS, Metzl confirmed the WHO's Wuhan investigation was all bark and no bite.

In fact, he explained China did not allow the outside investigative team to conduct its own investigation. Instead, Chinese officials conducted the "primary investigation," with WHO embarking on what Metzl called a "study tour."

"Everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation. It's not. This group of experts only saw what the Chinese government wanted them to see," Metzl said.

"We would have to ask the question, 'Well, why in Wuhan?' To quote Humphrey Bogart, 'Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why Wuhan?' What Wuhan does have is China's level four virology institute, with probably the world's largest collection of bat viruses, including bat coronaviruses," he noted.

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The WHO report “failed to reach some of the most basic standards of credible analysis and assessment,” the scientists said.