Covid-19 Origin: Final Report, Select Subcommittee.

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FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward

COVID-19 ORIGIN: COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The FIVE strongest arguments in favor of the “lab leak” theory include:

1. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.
4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/

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POSTING IN EXTRA LARGE BOLD FONT DOES NOT ADD CREDIBILITY TO A BIASED OPINION

 

The report is authored by Republican  Representatives and  does not support the claim of a laboratory origin. The report is heavy on praise of  former President Trump's response such as a travel ban and the vaccine initiative. It is a regurgitation of several unsupported claims made during the pandemic.

 

Although it is possible that theremay have been a lab origin, what is ignored is that the same lab was studying samples taken from the  live animal markets where the disease is believed to have originated. The subcommittee Democrat members have dissented from some of the report conclusions saying the Republican members had failed to “shed meaningful light on the question of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins.” The criticisms against Fauci  rane from “baseless to frivolous.”  “It was repeatedly explained to the Select Subcommittee that all prior epidemics and pandemics, as well as almost all prior outbreaks, have zoonotic origins."