(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently released report revealed that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were mutating viruses prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to create biological weapons.
According to The Blaze, China’s military attempted to create biological weapons while simultaneously developing a vaccine for their own citizens.
Investigators in the U.S. State Department received intelligence information on China’s actions leading up to the pandemic. More than a dozen investigators combed through metadata, phone records and internet information.
The investigative team concluded that China did indeed perform risky experiments in Wuhan prior to the pandemic.
“Wuhan scientists were conducting experiments on RaTG13 from the Moijang mine, and that covert military research, including laboratory animal experiments, was being done at the institute before the pandemic,” the team reported.
The Chinese lab tested at least nine different COVID variants.
Reports indicated that testing of the viruses began around 2017. In 2018, the institute started combining viruses similar to SARS with another illness contracted by Chinese copper minors that they likely contracted by coming into contact with bat guano, referred to as “WIV1.”
Rutgers University Professor of Chemical Biology Richard Ebright described the new combined virus as the most dangerous coronavirus experiment ever undertaken.
The mutated virus killed 75% of mice in testing, and had a high infection rate.
The NGO known as the EcoHealth Alliance partially funded the research into the virus and had ties to former U.S. Coronavirus Czar Anthony Fauci.
In November 2019, several of the scientists at the institute contracted the illness and went to the hospital with COVID-like symptoms. A relative of one of the workers allegedly died from the same illness.
“We were rock-solid confident that this was likely COVID-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus research in the laboratory,” an investigator said. “They’re trained biologists in their thirties and forties. Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”
A month before the outbreak, researchers conducted “serial passaging” experiments—a process which encouraged pathogens to mutate into deadlier versions of themselves.
Chinese scientists never published information about experiments due to its secretive nature.
“The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons,” the report read. “If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power.”
