Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats, leaked papers reveal

[LiberalArkie]

Wuhan and US scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronavirus particles into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show.

New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles and aerosols containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.

They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work.

Papers, confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration, show they were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.

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https://news.yahoo.com/wuhan-scientists-planned-release-skin-145326380.html

[The Magistrate]

1. This Rather Undercuts The Claim, Sir

"confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration"


I am going to need a good deal more than that to consider this verified.

[dalton99a]

2. Probably the eminent virologist Mike Pompeo

[LiberalArkie]

3. It may prove that the Trump Administration had a goal of creating a pandemic that the right

has been wanting for a very long time.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Yep, that's why I'm skeptical, as well.

Not to mention that coronaviruses are already endemic to bats. It makes little sense to introduce them to cave bats, since they likely are already carrying them.

I highly recommend watching the episode of PBS "NOVA" that aired last week. It's on their web site and various streaming devices. They have a good description of bat coronaviruses, and their transmission to humans.

[ruet]

11. No, No, No. Run With It. That Means CV19 Is All TFGs Fault.

Right?

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[Ferrets are Cool]

13. This

[DURHAM D]

6. Bad source. Ignore. nt

[lagomorph777]

7. Corrected headline: Scientists planned to inoculate bats to prevent disease spread to humans.

Thanks for the sensationalism, though.

[Xoan]

8. LOL: The Torygraph

[SergeStorms]

9. Consider the source.

"Papers, confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration, show they were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells."

Gee, who would have something to gain by throwing this crap into the mix?

[Maine-i-ac]

10. Sounds like the study that Rand Paul used when he tried to play "gotcha" with Fauci

Fauci wasn't playing that and ripped into Rand Paul like an agitated next door neighbor.

Unsubstantiated paper, no peer review, etc. - not even basic science.

[blm]

12. Former member of Trump Admin, probably Mike Flynn

[Eugene]

14. Interesting, but this may generate more heat than light.

The bid was proposed but never funded.