Three researchers working at a Wuhan virology lab were hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms weeks before the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in Chi

Report: Wuhan Lab Staff Hospitalized With Covid-Like Symptoms Before Confirmed Outbreak, New Intelligence Finds

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2021-05-24 12:30:02

Three researchers working at a Wuhan virology lab were hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms weeks before the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in China on December 8, according to newly disclosed U.S. intelligence obtained and reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday—corroborating previous State Department findings and casting further doubts on the longstanding assertion that Covid-19 did not escape from a lab.

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 ... [+] coronavirus, arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.

The State Department previously reported that U.S. officials have "reason to believe" several researchers inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology faced "symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses" last fall, but it didn't specify that the researchers were hospitalized or the exact timing of their illnesses.

Unnamed officials familiar with the intelligence reportedly gave the Wall Street Journal varying accounts of the new information's veracity, with one person saying it needed further investigation while another described it as "very precise."

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