Top White House health official says it’s ‘certainly possible’ China KILLED researcher who started the Covid pandemic by throwing him off Wuhan lab roof

A retired senior health official revealed that a Wuhan scientist who secretly worked on a Covid vaccine months before the pandemic broke out could have sparked the global crisis and been killed for it.

Dr. Robert Kadlec, who served in the Trump administration as an official in the biodefense and epidemic response departments during the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed that the coronavirus could have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan through the actions of Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen, who performed risky operations. research on living animals.

Dr. Yusen was believed to have been involved in SARS-related coronavirus animal vaccine research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the summer or fall of 2019, Kadlec claims in a government report he co-authored.

During his research, Dr. Yusen filed a patent for a Covid vaccine he had supposedly been working on in secret for months in February 2020, just three months after the first case of the virus was reported in China – a time much faster than a typical vaccine. development.

Three months after filing his patent, the scientist died mysteriously when he “fell from the roof of the institute.”

Dr. Kadlec believes that the virus emerged during Dr. Yusen escaped from the WIV, causing a global health emergency.

Dr. Kadlec said, “It seemed like he was censored as a result of whatever happened. Our evidence suggests that something happened while he was doing his job, which we believe happened when the virus first emerged.

“And whether he was held accountable through formal proceedings or not, he was certainly dead by July 2020.”

Requested by Sky News If it was possible that Dr. Yusen was killed for causing the pandemic, Dr. Kadlec told the newspaper:It is certainly possible, we considered that plausible, but we had no evidence to make that assessment.”

Dr. Kadlec points to Dr. Yusen as a possible source of Covid-19 due to the vaccine patent the Chinese scientist filed so early in the pandemic, which Dr. Kadlec to speculate that Dr. Yusen knew about the virus long before the rest of the world.

Dr. Yusen filed a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on February 24, 2020, just a month after China locked down Wuhan over the outbreak, but US vaccine developers told government researchers it would have been impossible to generate the data cited in the patent so quickly.

It would have taken about three months of work, meaning WIV scientists worked secretly on a Covid vaccine for at least two months before Beijing told the world about the pandemic.

Dr. Kadlec co-founded the Covid vaccine development program Operation Warp Speed, which culminated in the introduction of highly effective shots that largely prevented serious illness and millions of deaths. But even in the US, it took about nine months for a vaccine to become available.

According to a Republican report from the House of Representativesthe rush to develop a vaccine may have led to an accidental laboratory leak, which could have led to the global pandemic.

As part of the lab leak theory about the origins of Covid, which was once seen as xenophobic but is now endorsed by government agencies such as the FBI, Republicans in Congress and researchers including Dr. Kadlec believe there were two lab leaks: one in 2019 during Dr. Yusen’s research. research and a month later it led to the worldwide outbreak.

According to that report, “During the same period in which experts suggest that Zhou began developing vaccines against a SARS-related coronavirus in late fall 2019, likely at the WIV, Wuhan experienced an increased incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI).”

As an expert on global biodefense and national security, Dr. Kadlec has warned that the US has failed to learn lessons from Covid, given continued support for risky research around the world that could fuel a new pandemic.

The US has previously indirectly funded high-risk research through grants awarded to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), a controversial research group at the center of the Covid laboratory leak theory, which then sent money to the WIV from around 2014 to 2020.

Dr. Kadlec said: ‘The tools of science to do this kind of synthetic biology, this risky research, have not been limited to China.

‘It’s happening in the United States. It’s happening in many places around the world and another pandemic could happen if we don’t accept that.’

Dr. Kadlec said he also felt that the denial of the lab leak theory was a way for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to distract from the fact that his agency had allocated grant money. to fund WIV experiments that may have led to the pandemic.

He added: ‘That would be a natural reaction for him or anyone else, especially if he were to say: what could this do to me and consequently to our institution if it turned out that we had some culpability or some involvement in this? had? ‘

Dr. Kadlec told SkyNews: “I just feel like there’s an obligation that I have to say what happened. And I think I should try to portray this factually, not to gain sympathy or forgiveness, but more to basically say, this is what happened. This is what we were trying to do.

‘Did it work? No. What you really regret is that the downstream effects were things we had no control over.”

He said he was concerned about the role he played with Dr. Fauci in downplaying the possibility of Covid escaping from a laboratory.

‘Yes, we had some successes, we had some other non-successes, i.e. failures. And part of the reason I’m still determined to bring up this subject is at least to say, it’s important to know now what happened,” the doctor said.

Denying the validity of the lab leak theory also casts doubt on the very real possibility of a new crisis emanating from other high-security biolabs where high-risk pathogens are studied.

The public denial of the lab leak theory in favor of a theory that believed Covid jumped from animals to humans led to a general consensus among scientists to smear all dissenters and label them as conspiracy theorists.

But recently revealed private correspondence between scientists from Dr. Fauci, who published the article ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ on March 17, 2020, seemed to show their political motivations.

Dr. Kristian Andersen, a Danish evolutionary biologist who also co-authored the paper, told colleagues several weeks before publication that the idea of ​​a lab leak was “not some fringe theory” and in fact “very likely” the origin of the was a pandemic. .

In addition, co-author Dr. Andrew Rambaut, a biologist at the University of Edinburgh, said blaming China because “even an accidental release” of the virus would cause a geopolitical “s*** show” was why he was “pleased” . by attributing it to a natural process.’

Dr. Andersen responded to that message, saying he “completely agrees that this is a very reasonable conclusion,” adding, “While I hate it when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to to do, especially given the circumstances.”