A pandemic investigator has claimed that the probe into the origins of Covid-19 was the biggest ‘cover-up’ since the Watergate scandal.
David Asher, who was part of Donald Trump‘s administration during his first term when the Corona virus spread around the world in 2020, said Watergate, which led to US President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, ‘was nothing compared to this’.
Asher reportedly claims that US scientists helped to arrange a cover-up of the lab leak theory, which says that the virus originated in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The laboratory is famous for its research on bat coronaviruses.
The CIA, FBI and the US Department of Energy have reportedly supported the lab leak theory as the most likely cause of the virus.
But in five years of searching for the cause, no natural origin of the Covid virus – which killed more than seven million people all over the world – has been found, according to Asher.
The virus spread quickly and did not appear natural from the start, sources in China allegedly told Asher.
‘It didn’t take a rocket scientist to see this thing was supernatural,’ he told the Sun.
Asher said the virus showed signs of genetic manipulation, a notion previously supported by scientists who said that Covid was ‘exquisitely matched’ and ‘supercharged’ for humans.
Medical workers take swab samples from residents to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus, in a street in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on May 15, 2020
This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory (centre L) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on May 27, 2020
Asher said that early on, scientists were investigating whether the virus was created at the Wuhan lab.
But weeks before a pandemic was even declared, China shut down the investigation and testing of virus samples ‘for violating national security’, he added.
Asher further claimed that Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, created the coronavirus to ‘control the world order, spark chaos and sow seeds of uncertainty’.
While he said that came after China had voiced ambitions to create biological weapons in 2011, he doubts that Covid was ‘released as a weapon’.
‘But could it have been a laboratory accident involving programmes they were running with reckless abandon? Absolutely,’ he told the Sun.
Just like Asher, Robert Redfield, the infectious disease expert who headed the key US public health body when the pandemic erupted, alleges a cover-up of the lab theory.
Redfield has accused American and British intelligence agencies of orchestrating a clandestine campaign to shut down concerns over a possible laboratory leak in China.
The virologist told the Mail on Sunday that he is now ‘100 per cent’ convinced Covid was the result of scientists becoming infected while carrying out high-risk experiments to boost the infectivity of bat viruses in Wuhan labs.
Firefighters disinfect the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on April 3, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei Province
File image of Virologist Shi Zhengli (L) works in a lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China
He believes that Anthony Fauci, former presidential adviser and one of America’s most influential doctors, worked with the heads of US and UK research funding bodies to push a now-debunked theory of natural transmission from animals on sale in the Wuhan wet market to humans.
The purpose, he claims, was to cover up their support for controversial ‘gain-of-function’ research, which was banned in the US between 2014-2017. Any dissenting scientists were labelled as conspiracy theorists.
Redfield also fears security services secretly ‘pulled a lot of the strings’ to protect their agents inside China’s military-linked laboratories, pointing to Fauci’s ties with intelligence since 2004 while running the $38billion US biosecurity programme.
‘The role of the intelligence community is much deeper than meets the eye. It was so effective.
‘I think it was not just the Americans – the British had to be involved too.
‘Intelligence agencies spent a lot of time and energy infiltrating Chinese research programmes, including military programmes, and they were trying to protect their assets as far as possible so did not want any investigations into that [Wuhan] laboratory.
‘The more scrutiny of the laboratory, especially by the Chinese leadership, the higher the risk. I don’t know all the answers, but the bottom line is that this does not smell right.’
Medical staff treating patients infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province
The lab leak theory was often dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the end of 2020, but in the US and China, the theory started gaining support.
Several scientists also had suspicions about the theory of an accidental leak, with some writing a paper called the Proximal Origins.
In the paper, they said it likely wasn’t a lab accident, with one of the co-authors even saying Covid ‘seemed to have been pre-adapted for human spread since the get go’, according to the Sun.
But the paper has faced backlash since its publication, with thousands having signed a petition calling for it to be retracted and some labelling it a cover-up to the theory that the virus was leaked from the lab accidentally.
US Right to Know discovered thousands of documents and emails that seem to show a plan by scientists to ignore the lab leak theory, the Sun reports.
However, recent and ongoing research in the US and France has found evidence supporting the wet market theory, which says that the virus emerged from infected animals sold at a Wuhan market rather than originated in a lab.
