Lab leak cover up?

National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf

My impressions

Many potential incriminating details from WIV are given

Report then systematically tries to downplay the evidence

IC genuinely does not know a lot of specifics

Background

Late March, US Congress, unanimously passed a law

Everything US intelligence held on coronavirus origins must be made public.

Public Law

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619/text

Not mentioned

Only one focus of outbreak

No animal intermediate identified

Poor WHO visits

WIV may have begun developing two Covid vaccines in November 2019

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23780776-mwg-fdr-document-04-16-23

(Prior to 8th December 2018)

U.S. Consulate General in Wuhan

An increase in adult Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI)

October to November 2019

(accompanied by negative results)

statistically significantly higher than reported in the previous 5 years

“By mid-October 2019, the dedicated team at the U.S. Consulate General in Wuhan knew that the city had been struck by what was thought to be an unusually vicious flu season.

The disease worsened in November.”

China CDC

None of the samples taken from the 18 animal species found in the market were positive for SARS- CoV-2.

EcoHealth Alliance and NIH funding

EcoHealth Alliance with the WIV, Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses

Mid-October to mid-November 2019

WIV collected 20,000 bat and animal samples by 2019, but did not disclose all of the viruses

Before 2019, the WIV published sequences in a public database, taken offline in September 2019