A former Trump administration official has claimed it is “certainly possible” the Chinese government killed a Wuhan scientist who may have caused the COVID outbreak by secretly working on a vaccine months before the global health crisis erupted.
Dr. Robert Kadlec, who served as an officer in the department of biodefense and epidemic response during the outbreak, said Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen was conducting research on live animals at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2019, and filed a patent for a COVID vaccine. in February 2020 — almost a month after China put Wuhan under lockdown because of the first outbreak.
Three months later, Dr. Yusen died when he allegedly fell from the roof of the Wuhan Institute.
“It looks like he was censored as a result of whatever happened,” Kadlec told Sky News Australia.
Dr. Robert Kadlec served as an officer in the department of biodefense and outbreak response during the outbreak. Getty Images
“Our evidence shows that something happened while he was doing his job, which we believe is when the virus first appeared,” he said.
“And whether he is held accountable through some official proceedings or not, he will surely be dead by July [2020].”
When asked if he thought Yusen might have been killed for starting the outbreak, Kadlec replied, “Of course it’s possible, we consider that a reasonable possibility, however, we don’t have the evidence to make that assessment.”
AFP via Getty Images Kadlec said he now regrets the role he played in helping Dr. Anthony Fauci downplayed the possibility of COVID leaking from a laboratory in Wuhan. Getty Images
Yusen’s rapid adaptation of the COVID vaccine sparked fears that the Wuhan Institute was secretly working on a vaccine months before Beijing acknowledged the outbreak of the novel virus.
The US vaccine developer has told government investigators that it will take at least three months to generate the data cited in Yusen’s patent, suggesting he was working on it at least two months before Chinese officials announced the new virus.
That research may have led to an accidental lab leak, House Republicans concluded in an April report.
But Dr Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has repeatedly denied the claims.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was allegedly working on a COVID vaccine months before Beijing officials told the world about the outbreak. Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Kadlec now says he thinks Fauci’s denials are a way for doctors to distract from the fact that his agency allocated grant money used to fund experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
He told Sky News that he was saddened by the role he played in downplaying the possibility that COVID escaped the lab, in favor of the zoological theory that it jumped from bats to humans.
The idea, Kadlec said, was to encourage cooperation from the Chinese government.
Researchers believe the research of Dr. Zhou Yusen against the COVID-19 vaccine may have caused the virus to leak from the laboratory. US AP officials initially rejected the lab leak theory because the party claimed the virus came from bats. AFP via Getty Images
“Part of the reason I’m still committed to trying … is to bring the subject at least to say that it’s important to know now what’s going on,” he said, adding that denying the validity of the lab leak theory could cast doubt on the possibility of other pathogens escaping from biolab.
Kadlec said he has decided to speak out now because he feels “it’s an obligation that I have to say what happened, and I think to portray this factually – not to get sympathy or forgiveness – but rather to say factually, this is what happen . This is what we are trying to do.
“Did it work? No,” he admitted.
“In fact, what you regret is that the downstream effects are things we cannot control.”
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