HEART was one of the few newspapers in the UK to highlight the Wuhan lab leak theory when it first emerged, at a time when governments and mainstream media were condemning the idea that Covid 19 could have been man-made as a conspiracy theory, and social media platforms were cancelling any discussion of it.
by Andrew Halloway
Now a report by a US House of Representatives committee also concludes that a lab leak is the best explanation. The Committee On Oversight and Accountability’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic produced a report in December analysing the Federal Government’s response to the pandemic. It concludes that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) “funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology” that made Covid viruses more transmissible. Yet top US health officials like Dr Anthony Fauci denied that the research involved gain-of-function and disparaged the lab leak claims as conspiracy theories. Moreover, the outgoing President Biden issued a pardon to Fauci – as well as to his own family members – to protect Fauci from prosecution.
The report states that “the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis”. It also concludes that attempts to identify the origin of the pandemic were frustrated by “the Chinese Government, agencies within the US Government, and some members of the international scientific community” which “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins”.
Just a month before the report, pandemic expert Dr Tim Spector, a professor at King’s College London, repeated his opinion that, “the lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic”.
Two opinion columns in the Wall Street Journal in February and March last year revealed that new documents show that Covid 19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and in May the Sunday Telegraph revealed that the US shared a “gobsmacking” lab leak file with the UK – but its contents were ignored by the UK government after UK scientists warned against questioning the animal origin explanation.
In his column, Nicholas Wade wrote that mainstream media have been reluctant to cover the issue because “science journalists are too beholden to their sources to suspect that virologists would lie to them about the extent of their profession’s responsibility for a catastrophic pandemic”.
China, with US tech support and funding, secretly engineered a bioweapon
Writing in LifeSiteNews, Steven Mosher – the President of the Population Research Institute – said: “The Wall Street Journal just breathlessly reported that the Covid virus was manufactured in a lab… Of course, this is not news to anyone but those who still read the mainstream media. Those benighted souls have been kept in the dark about the origins of the recent pandemic for four long years…
“The fact that China, with US tech support and funding, secretly engineered a dangerous bioweapon that escaped from the lab is by now obvious to almost everyone.”
Then in May, the Sunday Telegraph, Mirror and Mail on Sunday all revealed that the US shared evidence of the leak with the UK government at the height of the pandemic. The Sunday Telegraph reported: “The ‘high likelihood’ of the virus spreading from the Chinese laboratories in Wuhan was suggested in archived files first aired by Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations. The group convened in January 2021 to discuss the possibility of a lab leak, which the US had warned of as China had been researching coronaviruses in a laboratory also noted for military activity.”
Politician Michael Gove, a Cabinet minister at the time, told the UK Covid inquiry in 2023 that there was a “significant body of judgement that believes that the virus was man-made”, and last year the Prime Minister during the pandemic, Boris Johnson, revealed that he also believed that Covid-19 escaped from a lab.