Senate Report Makes Conclusion on COVID-19 Origins

According to a Senate report, the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ was most likely the result of a lab leak.

“Policymakers said there was ‘substantial’ evidence of an accident at a research facility — while evidence for a natural spillover is ‘still missing,'” Daily Mail reported.

The interim report concluded that China’s unwillingness to cooperate or open up the lab in question meant it ‘no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.’

Figures such as Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak also deserve scrutiny and should be investigated to the fullest extent.

The report, released by Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Thursday, named China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as the likely source of the pathogen.

“Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident,” the report read.

“New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt or the presumption of accuracy.”

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“So, 2 yrs after Fauci ordered his henchman to condemn lab leak propositions as conspiracy theories, a bipartisan committee concludes evidence makes it ‘more likely than not’ that COVID came from a lab leak!” Senator Rand Paul tweeted.

So, 2 yrs after Fauci ordered his henchman to condemn lab leak propositions as conspiracy theories, a bipartisan committee concludes evidence makes it “more likely than not” that COVID came from a lab leak! https://t.co/YHA5QQAYxv

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 28, 2022

Senate Report, 10/27/22: "Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident."https://t.co/bww5FP59xe pic.twitter.com/PWRgWy4NrC

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 27, 2022

From the Daily Mail:

The report accepts there is still crucial missing information about how the pandemic truly came to be — with no direct evidence for either natural or synthetic origin.

But ‘the lack of transparency and collaboration’ from China ‘prevents reaching a more definitive conclusion’, the senate committee adds.

‘The hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy.’

Proponents of the lab leak theory — including former President Donald Trump — were initially dismissed as conspiracy theorists or denounced as xenophobes.

Reacting to the committee’s findings, the White Coat Waste Project campaign group said: ‘Once again, an authoritative Congressional report has concluded that taxpayer-funded gain-of-function experiments on animals in Wuhan likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘Yet, nearly three years into the pandemic, the white coats responsible for probably causing and covering up this global disaster have not been held accountable.

‘Lab accidents are common and taxpayers in both parties shouldn’t be forced to pay for another pandemic.’

The New York Post added:

The committee found that the Wuhan Institute of Virology procured several pieces of equipment leading up to the pandemic that suggests it had problems containing aerosolized viruses, such as an air incinerator and an air disinfection system, as well as evidence of shortages of other safety equipment.

Coronavirus samples taken from bats collected by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were as close as 96.8% genetically similar to the virus that caused the pandemic, according to the report. Additionally, the report said, researchers at the lab also often collected the bat samples with inadequate protective coverings.

The zoonotic origin theory is unlikely, the report concluded, because there is still no evidence of an animal being infected with the COVID-19 virus, or even a closely related virus, prior to the outbreak that began in 2019.

And while the report notes that the virus likely originated from a horseshoe bat, it is unknown how that bat would have traveled thousands of miles from Southern China or Southeast Asia to Wuhan, unless it was brought by virus researchers.

Read the full interim report titled, “An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” HERE.