New Emails Chronicle Lab-Leak Coverup in Real Time

 There has been renewed interest in the origins of Covid and the lab-leak theory this week following the release of further emails between senior US Government health official Dr. Anthony Fauci and others as they conspired in early February 2020 to counter the theory and suppress it.

• The emails confirm that those involved were not aware prior to late January that the virus was likely to be of lab origin
• Among other things, they confirm that the author(s) did not receive cover-up instructions from the FBI or MI5

Where did the idea come from?

• The aim of the discussion was to challenge a "certain theory"
• This is understood by the others to be the linking of the virus to HIV as found in a January 2020 pre-print
• Drosten's questions are quickly answered by other group members

This has nothing whatsoever to do with HIV nonsense.

• Ever since this outbreak started there have been suggestions that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, if only because of the coincidence of where the outbreak occurred and the location of the lab.
• A lot of people there believe this and believe they are being lied to

Farrar explains further:

• The aim was to bring a neutral, respected, scientific group together to look at the data and provide an opinion
• Focus the discussion on the science, not on any conspiracy other theory and to lay down a respected statement to frame whatever debate goes on

Kristian Andersen does acknowledge that they have been "trying to disprove any type of lab theory"

• They are at a crossroad where the scientific evidence isn't conclusive enough to say that we have high confidence in any of the three main theories considered

Until the pangolin sequences showed up, the consensus in the emails was settling on the proposal that while the virus didn't appear deliberately engineered it could have resulted from "repeated tissue culture passage" in a lab.

• While Francis Collins argues this "doesn't explain the O-linked glycans" which typically emerge in the presence of an immune system, Holmes said, it was possible for "accidental lab passage in animals to give glycans."
• The glycan point is important and could be given further weight against a passage origin.

https://brownstone.org/articles/emails-chronicle-lab-leak-coverup/