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In reply to the discussion: Cnet: How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group [View all]womanofthehills
(8,700 posts)11. Article from 2020 WaPo- In 2018 our State Dept was worried about coronavirus escaping from the lab
Opinion: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge.
What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help. The first cable, which I obtained, also warns that the labs work on bat coronaviruses and their potential human transmission represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.
During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory, states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassys environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge.
What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help. The first cable, which I obtained, also warns that the labs work on bat coronaviruses and their potential human transmission represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.
During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory, states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassys environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
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Cnet: How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group [View all]
intrepidity
Apr 2021
OP
I'm curious why you are so motivated to push the theory that covid escaped from a lab?
Phoenix61
Apr 2021
#1
So you're simply doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results...?
LanternWaste
Apr 2021
#29
Article from 2020 WaPo- In 2018 our State Dept was worried about coronavirus escaping from the lab
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#11
Well that's all I need to hear to feel a need to go out and abuse people who look remotely Chinese
Hugh_Lebowski
Apr 2021
#2
Actually - Our government was funding research at the Wujan lab thru Pater Daszak's Eco Health
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#13
In March, once the WHO-China mission was complete, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director
Celerity
Apr 2021
#12
Interesting that Peter Daszak's Eco Health was funding the coronavirus research at the Wujan lab
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#14
Our CIA director Burns said yesterday that the WHO report is not their assessment
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#20
Worse than you can imagine - labs doing dangerous research springing up all over world
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#28