A recent article published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) “has breathed new life into the search for COVID-19 origins” reports The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The article was written by economist Jeffrey Sachs and professor of molecular pharmacology and therapeutics at Columba University, Dr. Neil Harrison. DCNF writes that while this article lays out “one of the most comprehensive overviews of the evidence yet that COVID-19 could potentially have emerged form a lab in Wuhan, China” it is even more superior than previous reporting.
“However, unlike most previous analyses, Harrison and Sachs point out that there are troves of untapped evidence potentially available right here in the United States that have not yet been investigated.”
The authors make the claim that “more than a half dozen institutions in the United States have evidence that could prove useful in finding where COVID-19 came from, if only they would make it public.”
“Most of these institutions are government agencies — the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).”
Also named are the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and University of California-Davis (UCD) as well as EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the non-profit which worked directly with the WIV on bat-based coronavirus research.
The government agencies named were involved in some fashion with funding or overseeing research at the WIV or done by EHA. UNC employs Dr. Ralph Baric, a scientist who developed a groundbreaking method of inserting new genetic code into pathogens without leaving any evidence, and used it to make coronaviruses more dangerous as part of research projects. UCD maintained a substantial database of SARS-like CoV genetic sequences as part of the government-funded PREDICT project, and EHA was the primary intermediary between U.S. government agencies — and their grant money — and Wuhan researchers…
None of these institutions have fully publicized the work they’ve done involving coronavirus research. According to Sachs and Harrison, releasing their internal communications, biological samples and other research findings could prove critical in determining if COVID-19 is in fact naturally occurring, or same from a lab in Wuhan, China…
Sachs and Harrison call for a full release of this information, and, if necessary, a Congressional inquiry.