Here is more damming news regarding the origin of Covid-19, which while not in itself conclusively proving the lab origin of the virus, is still evidence that coheres with a growing body of evidence supporting it. Chinese virologists had mapped the Covid-19 virus in late December 2019, which was two weeks before the communists decided in their ample leisure time, to tell the world about the virus, according to documents obtained from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). One Chinese virologist had uploaded the Covid-19 gene sequence to a US government website on December 28, 2019. At the same time, even while knowing the genetic structure of the virus, and thus being be to anticipate its ill-effects, communist Chinese health officials were saying that the disease outbreak was merely a viral pneumonia, and had not closed down the Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. It is almost as if they wanted the virus to spread. Which they did.
While mainstream media coverage of this story, as extracted below, say that this new evidence does not in itself prove the origin of Covid-19, which taken as a lone piece of evidence, is technically true, but with what is also know about China's secrecy and cover-ups, if Covid-19 was a natural development, there would have been no real need to engage in the deception that was done. As well, there is the body of evidence of US-financed coronavirus research as the same lab, so it is extraordinary to suppose that Covid-19 just happened to arise in bats in some cave, with a virus ready to infect humans. And, this sort of gain-of-function research goes on right now, as seen with the variant of Covid that Chinese scientists recently created that killed 100 percent of the lab mice.
China, and the US are both guilty of the bio-crime of the century.
"Chinese researchers isolated and mapped the virus that causes Covid-19 in late December 2019, at least two weeks before Beijing revealed details of the deadly virus to the world, US congressional investigators said, raising questions anew about what China knew in the pandemic's crucial early days.
Documents obtained from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by a House of Representatives committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show that a Chinese researcher in Beijing uploaded a nearly complete sequence of the virus's structure to a US government-run database on December 28, 2019.
Chinese officials at that time were still publicly describing the disease outbreak in Wuhan, China, as a viral pneumonia "of unknown cause" and had yet to close the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, site of one of the initial Covid-19 outbreaks.
China shared the virus's sequence with the World Health Organisation only on January 11, 2020, according to US government timelines of the pandemic.
The new information doesn't shed light on the debate over whether Covid emerged from an infected animal or a lab leak, but it suggests that the world still doesn't have a full accounting of the pandemic's origin.
The extra two weeks could have proved crucial in helping the international medical community pinpoint how Covid-19 spread, develop medical defences and get started on an eventual vaccine, specialists have said.
In late 2019, scientists and governments worldwide were racing to understand the mystery disease eventually named Covid-19 that would kill millions and sicken many more.
It "underscores how cautious we have to be about the accuracy of the information that the Chinese government has released", said Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle who has reviewed the documents and the recently discovered gene sequence.
"It's important to keep in mind how little we know."
The Chinese researcher who submitted the virus sequence, Lili Ren of the Beijing-based Institute of Pathogen Biology, didn't respond to an email seeking comment. The institute is part of the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
"China has kept refining our Covid response based on science to make it more targeted," a Chinese Embassy spokesperson said. "China's Covid response policies are science-based, effective, and consistent with China's national realities. They can stand the test of history."
The documents describing a new timeline were obtained by Republicans on the House energy and commerce committee after the committee threatened to subpoena the HHS.
Melanie Egorin, HHS assistant secretary for legislation, wrote last month to the committee's chair, Republican representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, that Dr Ren submitted the virus sequence on December 28, 2019, to a genetic database, GenBank, run by the US National Institutes of Health.
The first known publication of the sequence of the Covid virus, called SARS-CoV-2, came on January 11, 2020, after Chinese authorities shared the information with the World Health Organisation.
In addition, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says the virus sequence was shared within China with China's equivalent of the CDC on January 5 but not made known globally to scientists.
The sequence that Dr Ren provided in December 2019 was never published and was deleted from the database on January 16, 2020, after NIH, following its protocols, asked her for more technical details and she didn't respond, Ms Egorin wrote. It is unclear why Dr Ren didn't respond.
On January 12, NIH received and published a SARS-CoV-2 sequence from another source.
"The sequence published on January 12, 2020, was nearly identical to the sequence that was submitted by Lili Ren," Ms Egorin told the committee.
The discovery that a researcher in the state-affiliated Chinese lab had isolated and mapped the virus well before Beijing revealed publicly that it had done so shows the US "cannot trust any of the so-called 'facts' or data provided by the CCP and calls into serious question the legitimacy of any scientific theories based on such information," Ms McMorris Rodgers said in a statement."