As the New York Post reported on June 4 (and which RedState’s Scott Hounsell elaborated on later), a Chinese military scientist named Zhou Yusen filed for a patent for a coronavirus vaccine on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army in February 2020, only five weeks after China finally admitted that COVID-19 could be transmitted from human to human. Zhou, an award-winning military scientist, died in May 2020, but the Chinese government didn’t issue any report on his death and there were no tributes, which one would expect for such a decorated scientist. The only documentation of his death is a brief mention in a July 2020 Chinese media report and a notation of “deceased” next to his name on a research paper published in December 2020.
NBC News is now reporting not about Zhou developing the vaccine for the PLA or about the interesting (to say the least) development timeline, but simply that Zhou and at least one other Chinese military scientist performed coronavirus research with Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of course, the fact that she was knowingly working with the PLA on coronavirus research is a big deal in and of itself given how vehemently she’s denied that on numerous occasions.
With any type of intelligence or political narrative, one must also look at what pieces are left out of the story and ask why. As noted above, NBC didn’t inform its viewers that Zhou’s name was on a patent application for a coronavirus vaccine filed in February 2020 by the Chinese military.
They also didn’t tell their viewers what type of research Dr. Shi performed with these military scientists. It turns out that the February 2018 research paper, which determined that an outbreak of swine diarrhea was caused by a novel bat coronavirus that crossed species, was funded by the National Institutes of Health and USAID’s PREDICT program. It also turns out that Peter Daszak, the real-life Bond villain, was a co-author.
I believe that the December 2019 paper NBC News refers to is actually this paper titled “Molecular Mechanism for Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of Coronavirus Entry,” which both Dr. Shi and Zhou Yusen contributed to. This work was supported by three NIH grants, which Science magazine says were given to two researchers from US institutions, Dr. Fang Li of the University of Minnesota and Dr. Lanying Du of the New York Blood Center.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/30/new-wuhans-bat-woman-worked-with-chinese-military-on-weaponizing-coronaviruses-using-us-government-money-n404960