Zero Hedge article on Wuhan Strain of coronavirus (Covid-19)
& likely origin
States that China's chief biochemical weapon defense expert, is now to be stationed in Wuhan to lead the efforts to overcome the deadly, pneumonia-like pathogen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sudden-militarization-wuhans-p4-lab-raises-new-questions-about-origin-deadly-covid-19
Zero Hedge links this 2015 article entitled "SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose threat for human emergence"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/
According to the ZH article and one it references it appears the virus was created by researchers studying bat coronaviruses and their potential to emerge as human pathogens. As part of the research they created a chimera - “Utilizing the SARS-CoV infectious clone, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse adapted SARS-CoV backbone.”
and
“Importantly, based on these findings, we synthetically rederived an infectious full length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Together, the work highlights a continued risk of SARS-CoV reemergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.”
Allegedly the intent was to use this to find a vaccine or therapeutic options were such a virus to ever emerge.
KEY POINTS:
1: Research article published 2015 appears to describe the possible creation of the Wuhan coronavirus
2: The Research performed jointly with Scientists from Wuhan facility and University North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
3: The research was funded jointly by NIH and National Natural Science Foundation, China
4: The article notes “These studies were initiated prior to the U.S. Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain of Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS, and SARS Viruses.”
This is HUGE - no wonder they are moving in a Chinese bio weapons expert…