What the CIA said is true: this virus came out of a lab. What they didn’t tell you? It was almost surely made in a US lab (UNC) but tested in a Chinese laboratory.
Columbia professor Jeff Sachs noted the Chinese horseshoe bats, which are exclusive to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Ralph Baric from UNC was fascinated by that species of bat, as they were the source of SARS1 in 2003.
To be specific, Baric wanted to test his “human codon optimized” HKU3-Smix in bats.
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