RT and other media seize on Jeffrey Sachs' words to promote theory COVID19 actually originated in a U.S. biolab.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying also chimed in, citing Sachs’ comments to reinforce Beijing’s repeated claims that the United States should be investigated as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. China has provided no direct evidence, and U.S. labs have denied such claims.
In more extensive commentaries published in May, however, he and a co-author had speculated that the virus may have resulted from a U.S.-China research partnership involving the National Institutes of Health, a biolab at the University of North Carolina, and labs in Wuhan, China. In that piece, also carefully worded, they said “[t]he origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain unknown but may have had an assist from advanced U.S. biotechnology.”
They stated that inserting this feature, called a "furin cleavage site," into viruses for experimentation had been "an aim of a U.S.-China research team, using biotechnology developed by U.S. scientists.”, a 2018 grant proposal to test engineered bat coronaviruses in humanized mice and measure their capacity to cause disease. A second part proposed testing ways to suppress bats in rural China from shedding potentially harmful viruses.
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