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\nWuhan, China<\/span> (photo by Brian19891003<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

The number of COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China (the area that it is reported that the first infections took place) has been found to be much higher than officially reported:<\/p>\n

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Wuhan COVID Infections 3 times Higher than Official Figure, China Study Says<\/h2>\n

January 8, 2021<\/p>\n

SHANGHAI – The number of people who have been infected with COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified, could be around three times the official figure, according to a study by Chinese researchers based in the city.<\/p>\n

The paper, published by the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal on Thursday, analyzed blood samples from more than 60,000 healthy individuals taken from locations across China from March to May 2020.<\/p>\n

It found that 1.68% of those from Wuhan contained antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, compared to 0.59% in surrounding Hubei province and 0.38% in the rest of China.<\/p>\n

With the city’s total population at more than 10 million, the researchers estimated that as many as 168,000 Wuhan residents were infected with the virus, compared to the official number of 50,340 hospitalized cases.<\/p>\n

The study suggested at least two thirds of the total number were asymptomatic, and thousands could have been infected after the “elimination” of clinical cases, raising the possibility the virus could exist in a community for a long period without causing hospitalizations.<\/p>\n

A separate study published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) late last month put the “seroprevalence” rate in Wuhan, the percentage of the population with antibodies, even higher at 4.43%, implying that around half a million people in the city could have been infected.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan at the end of 2019, with the first outbreak associated with a seafood market in the city. https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/covid-19-pandemic\/wuhan-covid-infections-3-times-higher-official-figure-china-study-says<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where did COVID-19 come from? Notice the following:<\/p>\n

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Idea That COVID-19 Began as a Lab Leak Spreads<\/h2>\n

January 5, 2021<\/p>\n

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At first it was the stuff of conspiracy theorists. Most experts, and certainly the bulk of the public, believed that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started as a result of someone eating a bat in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. There were whispers that the virus had been manufactured in a laboratory in that city and that somehow the little spiky ball that has killed millions and brought the world\u2019s economy to its knees escaped. But nobody much believed it and certainly what\u2019s known as the mainstream press for the most part ignored it.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No one would accuse New York<\/em> magazine of being a fringe publication, as a cursory glace at its Wikipedia page<\/a> makes clear. Yesterday, New York<\/em> magazine published a lengthy article by Nicholson Baker, in which he posits that scientists in a laboratory in China purposely created a hyper-virulent strain of a coronavirus as part of an anti-pandemic program.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a point Baker makes right at the start in his lead. \u201cWhat happened was fairly simple, I\u2019ve come to believe,\u201d Baker writes. \u201cIt was an accident. A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, began its existence inside a bat, then it learned how to infect people in a claustrophobic mine shaft, and then it was made more infectious in one or more laboratories, perhaps as part of a scientist\u2019s well-intentioned but risky effort to create a broad-spectrum vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wuhan houses two laboratories that study coronaviruses that originate in bats: the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control. It\u2019s possible, Baker writes, that scientists studying a coronavirus that may have been genetically altered to make it more powerful did not disinfect themselves properly before leaving work. …<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Editorial Board published an opinion piece<\/a> a couple of days ago that approaches the question about the origin of COVIDF-19 from a slightly different perspective. It states that the Chinese government more or less controls all research having to do with the pandemic. The op-ed states that \u201cthe possibility of a laboratory accident or inadvertent leak having caused the coronavirus outbreak must not be ignored. The genetic makeup of the coronavirus is similar to a variant found in bats.\u201d In addition: \u201cThe presence of China\u2019s thought police overseeing scientific inquiry does not bode well.\u201d https:\/\/www.infectioncontroltoday.com\/view\/idea-that-covid-19-began-as-a-lab-leak-spreads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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China Denies US’ Allegation That Coronavirus Originated From Wuhan Lab<\/h2>\n

January 4, 2021<\/p>\n

China on Monday vehemently refuted the US charge that the novel coronavirus was leaked from a bio lab in the country and asserted that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world.<\/p>\n

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying\u2019s remarks came amidst reports that a ten-member team of the World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists would visit China this month to probe the origin of the coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan in December 2019. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a growing body of evidence that the (Wuhan) lab is likely the most credible source of the virus,\u201d Mr Pottinger, a staunch critic of Beijing, allegedly made the claim in a recent virtual meeting with UK officials, according to a British media report.<\/p>\n

His allegation is nothing new as US President Donald Trump, who termed COVID-19 as \u201cChina virus\u201d, too had alleged last year that the institute may have been responsible and called for an inquiry. 01\/04\/21 https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/china-denies-us-allegation-that-coronavirus-originated-from-wuhan-lab-2347646<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since January of 2020, I surmised that the Wuhan viral research as well as unclean animal involvement led to the novel coronavirus (e.g. Thiel B. Bat soup advocate pressured to apologize as unclean animal consumption and espionage theories are out on the Wuhan coronavirus<\/a>. COGwriter, January 26, 2020). Regular readers of this COGwriter Church of God News page realize that reports about laboratory involvement were reported here. For example, here are links to many of the posts from February 2020 through January 2021 that mention that:<\/p>\n