Anonymous ID: 631dc2 Aug. 24, 2020, 8:31 a.m. No.10402230   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8654243/Top-body-asks-explosive-questions-origin-coronavirus.html

PUBLISHED: 17:01 EDT, 22 August 2020 | UPDATED: 17:04 EDT, 22 August 2020

 

The US government’s leading health research body has raised a series of bombshell concerns over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and the activities of a secretive Chinese laboratory that was investigating bat diseases.

 

The National Institutes of Health has asked if Covid-19 was linked to the deaths of three miners eight years ago and questioned whether the high-security laboratory in Wuhan possessed samples of the virus prior to the pandemic’s outbreak late last year.

 

The agency also demanded to know more about the ‘apparent disappearance’ of a scientist at the lab rumoured to be Patient Zero, and questioned if roadblocks were placed around the Wuhan Institute of Virology between October 14 and 19 last year.

 

‘It seems NIH experts are not just discarding lab escape scenarios as conspiratorial theories any more,’ said one US-based biomedical expert.

 

The NIH is Washington’s key medical research body, headed by Francis Collins, one of the world’s top geneticists.

 

He was appointed by Barack Obama and reconfirmed in the post by Donald Trump.

 

NIH raised the concerns in a letter last month to EcoHealth Alliance, a charity trying to get US support restored for research with its long-term collaborators at the Wuhan Institute of Virology into zoonotic diseases that cross from animals such as bats to humans.

Anonymous ID: 631dc2 Aug. 24, 2020, 9:06 a.m. No.10402506   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2563 >>2697

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/apollo-slips-on-virgin-islands-probe-of-black-s-ties-to-epstein-1.1484216

 

(Bloomberg) – Apollo Global Management Inc. dropped as much as 2.8% to the lowest since late June amid reports the U.S. Virgin Islands’ attorney general plans to subpoena the firm’s billionaire co-founder Leon Black about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

 

That may prove to be a “distraction that could temper net new assets,” Citi analyst William Katz wrote in a note on Monday, citing a New York Times article that said the subpoenas will focus on several entities connected to Black and to Apollo.

 

The trouble also “comes at a time in which investors are already questioning organic growth in credit following co-founder Mr. Marc Rowan’s recent decision to take a semi sabbatical,” along with eyeing “uneven dynamics” in private equity, Katz said.

 

Katz also pointed out that Black has indicated Epstein did no work for Apollo. After his arrest last year, Black assured investors in the firm’s funds that his relationship with the convicted sex offender didn’t extend to the private equity company. He said that Epstein provided services to his family partnership and entities relating to tax, estate planning and philanthropic advice. Epstein died in jail while facing sex-trafficking charges.

 

A spokesman for the private equity firm told the New York Times that it never did any business with Epstein.