Wuhan lab scientists were the first to contract COVID-19: report
Scientists conducting research on novel coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were the first humans to contract COVID-19, according to a new report.
“Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli,” Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told Public. “He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanized mice. If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.”reportedly shows Hu watching a lab worker handle specimens while neither is wearing protective gear, according to Public.
The US State Department has previously acknowledged suspicions that the COVID pandemic may have originated from a lab leak. She called the allegations that multiple of her colleagues had gotten ill with similar symptoms to COVID-19 before the outbreak emerged baseless and said that her lab did not hold any source of the strain that caused the pandemic in a“I don’t know how the world has come to this, constantly pouring filth on an innocent scientist,” she said over text.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is required to submit an declassified report on the lab leak investigation to Congress by Sunday.
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