Covid origins is getting some coverage again in the mainstream media, with Vanity Fair.com, addressing the issue: lab leak or natural, the so-called “bat soup” hypothesis. In 2020, leading scientists condemned the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory, as Trump had held to it, and because it supposedly hurt China and Chinese science, probably a nation paying some of their bills of some of the researchers. However, it was later revealed that many scientists rejected the bat soup hypothesis in private and indeed did think that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, but still pushed the bat soup line, to protect communist China. But not all have abandoned the quest for truth.
Jesse D. Bloom, an evolutionary biologist, during the early part of the plandemic, noticed that a number of early SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences mentioned in a published paper from China, had disappeared. Bloom thought that this disappearance indicated that the communist Chinese had hidden evidence about the early spread of Covid. He soon discovered by a bit of detective work that the deleting was by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), done so because the Wuhan lab had requested it. As described by Vanity Fair.com, who have done the world a great service of pursuing the Bloom issue, Bloom put his concerns in a paper, which generated great contention at a Zoom meeting with the NIH head, and other scientists. In general, to the outside observer, there was an effort by US scientists in the early stage of the plandemic, to protect China, and certainly US funding links to the Wuhan lab. This is all public knowledge now, as the connections and funding grants have been uncovered by successful Freedom of Information requests and is thus no conspiracy at all.