1/ A number of media organizations have reached out to me re my question to #SheZhengli earlier today abt whether the Chinese military was doing secret research at the #Wuhan Institute of Virology & her emphatic answer that it most certainly was not. Follow this thread for more.
2/ Dr. Shi said today that there was no Chinese military activity at the WIV. The US government finding released January 15 asserts that there was. Both of these claims cannot simultaneously be true. @ODNIgov @StateDept @Chinamission2un 2017-2021.state.gov/ensuring-a-tra…
3/ If #ShiZhengli is correct, the credibility of the US @StateDept & @ODNIgov wld be undermined significantly. If the US gov't is correct, then all of Dr. Shi's claims regarding WIV research & the absence of SARS-CoV-2 or precursor viruses in WIV repositories wld be in doubt.
4/ Given that the case made by Chinese officials & the @WHO-organized int'l cttee against a lab leak rests on Dr. Shi's credibility & claims of no SARS-CoV-2 or backbone virus in the WIV repository, the destruction of her credibility would fatally undermine that line of argument.
5/ If the Chinese military was doing secret animal pathogen research at or w/ the WIV & Chinese government/WIV officials were lying about this to the @WHO, media, & world, the case for an accidental lab leak followed by a cover up would grow significantly stronger.
6/ That's why we need a full and unrestricted international forensic investigation into the origins of #COVID19 with full access to all relevant records, samples, and key personnel. Learn more here. jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sar…
7/ This is the case we make in our open letter. If you agree we need a full & unrestricted investigation exploring all relevant origin hypotheses, including an accidental lab leak, pls make yr voice heard. We all & future generations deserve nothing less. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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