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Diplomats Warned of a Coronavirus Danger in Wuhan 2 Years Before the Outbreak
POLITICO
3/8/2021
By Josh Rogin
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A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
On January 15, in its last days, President Donald Trump’s State Department put out a statement with serious claims about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The statement said the U.S. intelligence community had evidence that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) laboratory were sick with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 implying the Chinese government had hidden crucial information about the outbreak for months and that the WIV lab, despite “presenting itself as a civilian institution,” was conducting secret research projects with the Chinese military. The State Department alleged a Chinese government cover-up and asserted that “Beijing continues today to withhold vital information that scientists need to prot ....

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