Covid origins: Wuhan lab leak theory resurfaces as Dr Anthony Fauci’s emails are released to US oversight committee

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Last week, there were some interesting revelations about events in the early days of Covid. After repeated requests, the government granted access to the US Republican House Oversight Committee to a number of emails between Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the most prominent face in the world’s fight against the pandemic, and other scientists and immunologists dating back to February 2020. According to this new information, the theory that the virus may have been an accidental lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) seems to be have been hastily quashed by US health officials for the sake of “international harmony”.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” on January 30, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

On February 2, 2020, Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the British medical charity foundation Wellcome Trust and adviser to the UK government, sent a mail to Dr Fauci and Dr Francis Collins, then director of the US National Institutes of Health. He referred to the virus research being carried out at WIV and quoted research by experts, including Professor Mike Farzan, who first discovered how the original SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus binds to human cells. These experts had concluded that the virus could not have evolved naturally.

Sir Jeremy wrote that a “likely explanation” could be that WIV “accidentally (created) a virus that would be primed for rapid transmission between humans”.  He went on: “So, I think it becomes a question of how do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the lab in Wuhan, how