Reporter : Gu Fan
Editor : Higashino
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : On 13 May, the appearance of the Wuhan Institute of Viology. (Photo by Hector Retamal / AFP via Getty Images)
The US State Department released an internal message from 2018, which details the concerns of officials of the US Embassy in China about the lack of adequate training for Wuhan virus laboratory personnel. Wuhan later became the epicenter of the covid outbreak.
The leaked content of the message caused US officials to speculate in April that the outbreak of covid was caused by an accident at a Wuhan virus laboratory. In May, President Trump said that the evidence he saw made him "highly convinced" that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a Chinese laboratory.
After The Washington Post requested the U.S. State Department to publish the message under the Freedom of Information Act, the State Department did so this week.
The complete message did not prove that the Wuhan laboratory caused the virus leak, but it did not rule out this possibility. In recent months, there has been an increase in academic suspicion that the virus originated from laboratory manufacturing, because the genetic sequence of the bat coronavirus studied in the Wuhan laboratory is not exactly the same as SARS-CoV-2.
The State Department’s message stated that US officials visited the Wuhan laboratory in 2018. The laboratory has serious shortcomings and lacks trained technicians and investigators.
The message also stated that scientists in the Wuhan laboratory were allowed to study SARS-like coronaviruses isolated from bats, but were not allowed to study SARS-like coronaviruses that could cause human disease unless specifically permitted by the designated committee.
But at present, many scientists in the West tend to believe that the virus was formed naturally, not artificially.
The President of the National Institute of Health, Francis Collins, published a blog titled "Genetic Research Shows that the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Virus Originated in Nature" on 26 March.
In his blog, Francis pointed out a discovery by Christian Anderson of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and Gary of the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, "The combination level of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and human cell ACE2 receptor is much stronger than that of all current computer prediction models. The reason for this result may be that the virus continues to evolve under the directed selection of ACE2 until it has a super combination ability."
In addition, the research results of Nikolai Petrovsky, a professor at Flinders University School of Medicine in Australia, show that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has the highest binding energy between the human ACE2 receptor and exceeds all 13 other tested animals, including bats. The bat is considered by many to be the chief source of the virus.
Collins wrote, "The probability of SARS-CoV-2 can only rely on its own efforts to evolve the ability to infect humans, and the current level of humans cannot create a spike protein that is so different from the model."
Although scientists tend to believe that SARS-CoV-2 was formed naturally, it is a consensus that the CCP covers up the epidemic and causes it to spread.
The Trump administration accused the CCP of failing to contain the virus and warned the world about its lethality. US Secretary of State Pompeo said, "They (the Communist Party of China) destroyed the samples. They arrested journalists and doctors who talked about the matter, and they were not allowed to do what countries that want to play a role on the international stage should do: transparency, openness, communication and cooperation."
More than 135,000 Americans died from covid, and nearly 3.7 million people were infected with SARS-CoV-2, forcing companies, schools, and factories around the world to close.
Because of the economic losses caused by SARS-CoV-2, the sergeant Daniel Edwards of the Dangipapa parish of Louisiana, prosecuted the CCP on behalf of the United States Sheriff on 8 May.
The complaint listed the wrong actions of the Chinese Communist government in this epidemic. For example, on 3 January 2020, the National Health Commission ordered all research institutes not to release any information about covid, and ordered laboratories to transfer any samples of covid patients to designated institutes, or destroy them.
On 5 January 2020, Professor Zhang Yongzhen from Fudan University told the National Health Commission that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted through the respiratory tract. On 11 January, Professor Zhang's team first published the virus gene sequence in a public database. However, on 11 January 2020, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission stated that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
On 14 January 2020, Ma Xiaowei, Director of the National Health Commission, held a conference call with health officials from various provinces to warn that SARS-CoV-2 may evolve into a major public health event; human-to-human transmission is possible and the risk of infection is high. However, on 15 January, Li Qun, Director of the China CDC, still stated on CCTV that the risk of human-to-human transmission is low.
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