“There is immense evidence” that SARS-CoV-2 started from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic, assured the head of American diplomacy Mike Pompeo on Sunday May 3 on the ABC channel.
- The head of the American diplomacy says that there is “evidence” that the coronavirus would have “came out” from a Chinese laboratory
- This is not the first time that the United States has advanced this thesis and the country has even launched an investigation in this direction.
- On April 16, Professor Montagnier claimed that SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory in Wuhan and was criticized by many scientists
The theory that the new coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic, continues to spark fire. “There is immense evidence that this is where it startedassured Mike Pompeo, the head of American diplomacy on Sunday May 3 on the ABC channel. China is notorious for its propensity to infect the world and to use substandard labs. This is not the first time that the world has been endangered by viruses from Chinese laboratories”he added, declining to elaborate on whether he believed the virus was intentionally released by Chinese authorities.
In this interview, the Secretary of State also deplored Beijing’s lack of cooperation in revealing the origin of the pandemic. “They continue to prevent access to Westerners, to the best doctorsdenounced Mike Pompeo. We need to be able to go there. We still don’t have the virus samples we need.”
A few days ago, US President Donald Trump had already raised this subject and threatened to tax China if the latter refused to cooperate in the investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2. At the question “Have you seen things so far that lead you to seriously believe that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the source of the virus?” of a journalist, Donald Trump answered in the affirmative.
“Difficult questions about the appearance of the virus”
Earlier, US intelligence said to join “the broad consensus of the scientific community to agree that the Covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified” while not ruling out that the pandemic was caused by an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, known for studying coronaviruses. “The intelligence community will continue to rigorously study information and intelligence that emerges to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of a laboratory accident in Wuhan.”the statement concluded.
The United States are not the only ones to criticize Beijing on the management of the crisis and to wonder about the origins of the latter. In mid-April, the UK warned Beijing that it would have to respond to “tough questions about when the virus emerged, and why it wasn’t stopped sooner.”
For his part, Emmanuel Macron declared to the FinancialTimes that there was “obviously things that happened that we do not know”. “Let’s not have a kind of naivety which consists in saying that [la gestion de l’épidémie par la Chine, NDLR], it is much stronger. We do not know”said the French president in an interview published Thursday, April 16.
A virus escaped during work on AIDS?
“Anyway, the truth always ends up coming out, it’s up to the Chinese government to take responsibility”, had meanwhile declared Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 to Why Doctor on April 16. According to him, SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that was manipulated and accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the last quarter of 2019 while the laboratory was looking for an AIDS vaccine.
“The story of the fish market is a beautiful legend… The hypothesis is that this virus came out of the laboratory because it escaped its promoters, it’s the work of a sorcerer’s apprentice! With my colleague, the bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, we looked closely at the description of the genome of this RNA virusexplained Luc Montagnier. Indian researchers had already tried to publish the results of analyzes showing that this genome harbored sequences of another virus which is… HIV, the AIDS virus, but they were forced to retract, the pressure was too strong !”
However, for Luc Montagnier, the altered elements of SARS-CoV-2 would eliminate themselves over time. “Nature does not allow any molecular construction, it eliminates these foreign bodies. Even if we don’t do anything, things will work out, but after a lot of deaths…”he concluded, optimistically.
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