{"id":11061,"date":"2023-06-28T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:08:07","slug":"covid-19s-patients-zero-may-have-been-wuhan-lab-scientists-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11061","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19&#8217;s &#8216;Patients Zero&#8217; May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19?r=58hqy&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_campaign=post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The report<\/a>\u2014authored by independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag, and published on Substack\u2014names Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu as &#8220;three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2&#8221; in fall 2019. Not only did these three scientists work at the WIV, but they worked specifically on gain-of-function research; Hu in particular was considered a &#8220;star pupil&#8221; of Shi Zhengli, dubbed the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bat woman<\/a>&#8221; for her work studying coronaviruses in bats.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The report&#8217;s authors spoke with multiple sources inside the U.S. government who provided the information. These sources, whose names were withheld to protect their anonymity, said there is little doubt that the laboratory is where the pandemic started.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7ZutfMtciv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/16\/covid-19-patients-zero-wuhan-lab-leak-shellenberger\/\">COVID-19&#8217;s &#8216;Patients Zero&#8217; May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;COVID-19&#039;s &#039;Patients Zero&#039; May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/16\/covid-19-patients-zero-wuhan-lab-leak-shellenberger\/embed\/#?secret=Jd5oq7dABy#?secret=7ZutfMtciv\" data-secret=\"7ZutfMtciv\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The report\u2014authored by independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag, and published on Substack\u2014names Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu as &#8220;three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2&#8221; in fall 2019. Not only did these three scientists work at the WIV, but they worked specifically on gain-of-function research; Hu in particular was considered a &#8220;star pupil&#8221; of Shi Zhengli, dubbed the &#8220;bat woman&#8221; for her work studying coronaviruses in bats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report&#8217;s authors spoke with multiple sources inside the U.S. government who provided the information. These sources, whose names were withheld to protect their anonymity, said there is little doubt that the laboratory is where the pandemic started.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,588,409,483],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}