Renowned Microbiologist Claims Wuhan Lab ‘Did Absolutely Crazy Things’ With Coronavirus
They 'gave the virus the ability to infect human cells'
By Zero Hedge Thursday, April 23, 2020
A world-renowned Russian microbiologist says that the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of Wuhan scientists doing “absolutely crazy things” in their laboratory.
Dr. Peter Chumakov of the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology and Russian Academy of Sciences claims that while the Wuhan scientists’ goal in creating the coronavirus was not malicious – instead, they were trying to study the pathogenicity of the virus, according to the Daily Mail.
“In China, scientists at the Wuhan Laboratory have been actively involved in the development of various coronavirus variants for over ten years,” he said. “Moreover, they did this, supposedly not with the aim of creating pathogenic variants, but to study their pathogenicity.”
‘The picture of the possible creation of the current coronavirus is slowly emerging.‘
He told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper: ‘There are several inserts, that is, substitutions of the natural sequence of the genome, which gave it special properties.
‘It is interesting that the Chinese and Americans who worked with them published all their works in the open (scientific) press.
‘I even wonder why this background comes to people very slowly.
‘I think that an investigation will nevertheless be initiated, as a result of which new rules will be developed that regulate the work with the genomes of such dangerous viruses.
‘It’s too early to blame anyone.’
–Daily Mail
Chumakov suggested that Chinese scientists were possibly searching for an HIV vaccine.
The Mail notes that the professor works for Russia’s Federal Research Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Preparations – while Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, advised against speculation that the virus was manmade.
“In the situation where there is not enough information that has been supported and checked by science … we think it is unacceptable, impossible, to groundlessly accuse anyone,” said Peskov.
Meanwhile, the head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological agency, Veronika Skvortsova, told Russia’s Channel One “This question is not that easy. It demands a very thorough study,” adding “None of the versions can be ruled out.”
“We can see that a fairly large number of fragments distinguishes this virus from its very close relative, SARS,” Skvortsova added. “They are approximately 94 per cent similar, the rest is different… I think that we must conduct a very serious research.
White House Trade Adviser: ‘China Spawned The Virus In A Lab’
"Then they hid the virus behind the shield of the World Health Organization."
By Steve Watson | Infowars.com Thursday, April 23, 2020
As evidence mounts, investigations take hold, and lawsuits are filed against China over the apparent lab based origin of the coronavirus, another prominent voice has leant his weight to the matter in the form of White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro.
Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Navarro stated clearly that he believes the US intelligence position that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab, and that the communist state fed a pack of lies to the World Health Organization (WHO).
“They spawned the virus, probably in that P4 lab right there in China,” Navarro urged
“And then they hid the virus behind the shield of the World Health Organization.” he added.
“And Sean, what that did over a six-week period is allow hundreds of thousands of Wuhanians, basically, to get on aircraft and seed the world.” Navarro continued.
Navarro also noted that China stockpiled PPE supplies in order to ‘profiteer’ from the crisis, as well as “sending us counterfeit tests.”
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Navarro echoed comments he made earlier in the week:
“What we know is that the ground zero for this virus was within a few miles of that lab. If you simply do an Occam’s razor approach, that the simplest explanation is probably the most likely, I think it’s incumbent on China to prove that it wasn’t that lab. So that’s number one.” Navarro said.
Navarro previously warned the White House in internal memos in January and February, that mass death and economic shut down could result from a pandemic. President Trump has said that he did not see the memos:
