Two Scientists Claim Again That Covid-19 May Have Been Created in a Lab

Two professors this week posited that Covid-19 may have been created in a lab. Dr. Filippa Lentzos, an associate professor of science and international security at King’s College London, told the United Nations this week that the world needed to acknowledge that there is possibility that the virus was synthesised.

Meanwhile, Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, told the Wall Street Journal that Covid-19 may actually have been man -made in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. He said that the evidence of possibility has reached the “level of a smoking gun”.

Ebright cited evidence found in a document dating back to 2018 from the lab that talked about making such a virus. “This elevates the evidence provided by the genome sequence from the level of noteworthy to the level of a smoking gun,” Ebright said, according to an article by Nicholas Wade, who served as an editor at The New York Times.

The Wuhan document said researchers were seeking to engineer bat coronaviruses in a way that would make them more easily transmissible to humans.

Wade suggested that despite rejection from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) scientists at Wuhan may have continued the research using funds by the Chinese government.

“Viruses made according to the DEFUSE protocol could have been available by the time Covid-19 broke out, sometime between August and November 2019. This would account for the otherwise unexplained timing of the pandemic along with its place of origin,” wrote Wade, who once served as the science editor of the New York Times.

He also pointed out that the specific genetic structure of the coronavirus which allows it to infect and kill humans is also a strong indication that the virus may have been created in the lab.

Dr. Filippa Lentzos also told the UN that the virus could have resulted due to a research-related incident. “We have to acknowledge the fact that the pandemic could have started from some research-related incident. Are we going to find that out? In my view, I think it’s very unlikely that we will. We need to do better in the future. We are going to see more ambiguous events,” Lentzos was quoted as saying during the presentation of the work of the Independent Task Force on Research with Pandemic Risks.