n contradiction to claims by the World Health Organization, a recent study conducted by University of Hamburg researcher Roland Wiesendanger determined that China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology was, in fact, the “cause” of COVID-19.
Wiesendanger, a three-time recipient of the European Research Council grant, asked in his 105-page report: “Is the current global crisis actually the result of a coincidence in nature — a coincidental mutation of a coronavirus in a bat with the assistance of an intermediate host — or the result of a scientist’s carelessness when carrying out the project in high-risk research with global pandemic potential?”
He cited 600 facts that support his theory that “the number and the quality of evidence clearly indicate a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Among the evidence Wiesendanger cites are the following facts: The host has still not been identified; the virus can “couple surprisingly well to human cell receptors,” the Wuhan lab “carried out genetic manipulations on coronaviruses for many years with the aim of making them more contagious, dangerous and deadly for humans,” and that the facility had “significant safety deficiencies.”
