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German scholar cites 6 pieces of evidence pointing to Chinese lab as source of virus

 2021年2月19日

A press release from the University of Hamburg in Germany states that research by the university’s renowned nanophysicist Wiesendanger concluded that much of the evidence points to the virus coming from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (From the University of Hamburg press release)

Amid controversy over the initial findings of the World health Organization (WHO) expert panel on the outbreak, the University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg) issued a press release on the 18th, stating that research by renowned nanophysicist Roland Wiesendanger on the origins of the Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) outbreak points to a laboratory accident. Wiesendanger’s research suggests that much of the evidence points to the virus coming from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wiesendanger’s study, conducted from January 2020 to December 2020, was based on an interdisciplinary scientific approach and a broad review of various sources of information, including scientific literature, articles in print and online media, and communications with international colleagues; while not providing highly scientific evidence, it pointed to many serious clues, the press release noted.

The researchers found many clues to support the notion that a laboratory accident occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and that the novel coronavirus may have originated in the laboratory. The press release notes that Wiesendanger’s research is intended to generate widespread discussion, particularly about the ethics of so-called “functional” research, which makes pathogens more infectious, dangerous and deadly to humans.

Wiesendanger listed six major clues to the laboratory origin of Wulnavirus.

  1. In contrast to previous coronavirus-associated epidemics, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is still unable to identify an intermediate host that might have allowed the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen from bats to humans. Therefore, the theory of zoonotic infectious disease as a possible explanation for the pandemic lacks a sound scientific basis.
  2. SARS-CoV-2 virus can accidentally bind to and penetrate human cells, but its two coronaviral properties were not previously known, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen is not of natural origin.
  3. The Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market does not provide bats, but the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research brings together the largest number of bat pathogens in the world that originate from distant caves in the southern provinces of China, and it is highly unlikely that bats from nearly 2,000 km away would reach Wuhan naturally, yet cause a global pandemic in the vicinity of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research.
  4. A research team at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has genetically manipulated coronaviruses over the years with the aim of making them more infectious, dangerous and lethal to humans, as documented in many scientific papers.
  5. The Wuhan Institute of Virus Research had major safety flaws prior to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak.
  6. many direct indications of the laboratory origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. A young scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research was allegedly the first patient to be infected. There are also many indications that the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research as early as October 2019. There is also evidence that the Chinese authorities conducted the corresponding virological study in the first half of October 2019.

This study was completed in January 2021 and was initially distributed and discussed in the scientific community. Wiesendanger noted that a critical science-based study of the source of the current Wulong pandemic is important because only based on this knowledge can adequate preventive measures be taken to reduce the likelihood of a similar pandemic in the future, which is no longer just a matter for a small group of scientists, but must immediately become the subject of public debate.