The latest Congressional review into the origins of COVID-19 revealed that the global pandemic was likely caused by at least two laboratory leaks from a Wuhan laboratory in China.
A new 300-page report from the Senate Health Committee, released by committee member Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) Monday night, highlights a series of past failures at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and notes that there is no known information. Naturally occurring COVID-19 incidents.
It comes as Trump’s director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, prepares to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday morning.
The report is important in “exposing the deception of those who have sought to conceal how this pandemic began,” said Marshall, a physician by commerce and a ranking GOP member of the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
A new Senate report has concluded that COVID-19 most likely came from at least two laboratory leaks from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and that the theory that it came from an animal can no longer be hypothesized.
The theory that claims COVID-19 jumped from animals to humans can no longer stand the ‘assumption of accuracy’, the report says.
“The preponderance of the information confirms the plausibility of a potentially unintended research incident resulting from the failure of biosafety containment during vaccine research,” the report states.
Sen. Mike Brown (R-Ind.), a member of the Assistance Committee and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, said it was always the case that the facts pointed to a lab leak from China to start COVID-19.
“From the beginning, there has been strong evidence to suggest that the Wuhan lab was the origin of COVID, but it was called a conspiracy theory because the wrong people thought it was,” Brown said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
He added, “It’s been almost a month since President Biden signed the unanimous and bipartisan bill from Sen. Josh Hawley and I to declassify all US COVID information related to the Wuhan lab, and we still haven’t seen word on it.”
The authors of the report, which was jointly published with the Muddy Waters Group, Dr. Bob Kadlec and Dr. Bob Foster, said the evidence was “circumstantial”, and was hampered by China’s lack of cooperation.
But they are still confident that the virus escaped from the Wuhan laboratory.
Kadlec served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preparedness and Response during the Trump administration.
President Joe Biden has ordered all documents from the US government about the virus to be made public.
The report was released by Roger Marshall, chair of the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee (pictured)
A timeline from Marshall’s office shows the steps taken before the virus was released from a Wuhan laboratory
It included the resumption of job search gains and the first time a worker fell ill in Wuhan, which was in November 2019
A picture of a doctor at work in Wuhan in February 2020
Chinese researchers began developing at least two COVID-19 vaccines in November 2019 — a month before the first cases were reported in China. The first case was confirmed in the United States on January 20, 2020.
The authors write that the presence of the vaccine at that time ‘means that SARS-CoV-2 was present in the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) prior to the known epidemic’.
However, they note that there is no actual evidence of COVID-19 within the Wuhan Institute.
They conclude that the epidemic most likely started with a lab leak, but it’s very likely that we’ll never know for sure.
China has insisted that the virus passed naturally from animals to humans and has denied reports of a laboratory leak.
Trump’s Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testifies before Congress about the origins of COVID on Tuesday
“This report also concludes that the Chinese Communist Party was responding to the coronavirus months before the rest of the world became aware of its existence, but China failed to inform the international community of the unfolding catastrophe,” Senator Marshall said in a statement about that report. a report.
The Kansas lawmaker added, “While today’s new report confirms much of my earlier findings on the origins of COVID-19, we still need more transparency from the US government – specifically the National Institutes of Health – and China.”
We should also pause gain-of-function research until we can create additional safeguards to make sure killer research never gets leaked again.
Titled Muddy Waters: The Origin of COVID-19, the report was first supported by Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, who resigned in January and worked on the report through the end of his term.
Marshall, who worked with Burr on the aid committee, decided to publish the entire report. A summary of the report was released in January and the full text followed this week.
Richard Burr, who stepped down as senator in January, oversaw the report when he was the minority leader on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
A summary of the report (above) was released in January: the full version was published on Monday
A senior Burr aide, who submitted the full report to Axios on Monday, said the report was somewhat abandoned when Burr left office, but it was still a useful contribution to the debate.
“Since the team did not complete its work before Senator Burr left office, this has become a homeless product,” said the former aide.
Former Senator Burr did not review this document nor did it go through the same vetting process as last year’s executive summary document, but this is worth reporting, in my opinion, and reflects the quality of the work done by the team.
Kadlec, a physician and retired Air Force colonel, said he believes China was excited about exploring the COVID-19 virus after their country was battered by SARS from 2002 to 2004. SARS killed 8,000 people worldwide — more than 5,000 of them in China.
“I think there is a really logical sense to what the Chinese might do in terms of SARS coronavirus vaccines because they saw the impact of SARS on their country,” Kadlec said.
“They had more than enough reason — as we did after 9/11 — to try and do things to protect ourselves,” he told Axios.
The Bohr-Kadlec report is the latest congressional paper to conclude that the lab leakage theory was likely.
Donald Trump with Robert Kadlec (left), CDC Director Robert Redfield (second right), and Mike Pence on February 26, 2020
In September 2020, Michael McCaul, a Republican who serves as minority leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, did not blame the Wuhan lab — but the Chinese authorities for covering up the outbreak.
“Undoubtedly, the Chinese Communist Party actively engaged in a cover-up aimed at obfuscating data, masking relevant public health information, and cracking down on doctors and journalists who tried to warn the world,” says McCall’s report.
By responding in a transparent and responsible manner, the CCP was able to support the global public health response and share information with the world on how to deal with the virus.
It is likely that the ongoing pandemic could have been prevented had they done so, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and the world from economic collapse.
Democrats seemed less concerned with the origins of the pandemic, and more focused on the mistakes of the Trump administration.
In December 2022, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released its final report, which argues that structural weaknesses, leadership failures and the spread of misinformation have contributed to the deaths of more than 1 million Americans during the pandemic.
When the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, the focus shifted again to the origins of the pandemic.
In January, the US Department of Energy concluded with “low confidence” that the pandemic “likely” originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, according to a confidential report shared with members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
A month later, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the FBI believed COVID may have originated from a “possible laboratory incident” in Wuhan. But he added that the Chinese government had blocked the work of FBI investigators.
Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in March told the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic — now controlled by Republicans — that he believed the virus likely originated in the Chinese laboratory.
“Based on my initial analysis of the data, I came to believe and continue to believe today that it indicated that COVID-19 was more likely the result of an accidental lab leak than a natural indirect event,” Redfield told the panel. .
“This conclusion is based primarily on the biology of the virus itself.”
