Breaking: Latest Senate Report Reveals That Wuhan Lab Leak Most Likely Caused The COVID-19 Pandemic And Its Cover-Up By Chinese Govt. Got Millions Of People Killed

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The extended version of the Senate GOP report on the Wuhan origins of the COVID-19 virus was released to the public this week.

It emphasized that at least one Chinese lab leak is “more likely than not” responsible for the pandemic and “the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy.”

The report was released on Monday by Senator Roger Marshall (R, KS) and it indicates that the Chinese government attempted to cover up the leak that led to millions of people killed.

The Blaze reported:

Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a bipartisan Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) effort in 2021 to explore the origins of COVID-19. 

After reviewing hundreds of studies, interviewing various experts, and analyzing numerous reports concerning the source of the virus, Republicans on the committee released an abbreviated 35-page minority report in October.

The report underscored the untenability of the claim that COVID-19 had natural origins, concluding instead that the “COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.”

The report also reaffirmed that China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where coronavirus gain-of-function experiments had been conducted for years, was the likely “high-risk” source of the virus. Numerous biosafety failures at the WIV were detailed, all “relevant to the containment of an aerosolized respiratory virus like SARS-CoV-2.”

Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, said that Senate Republicans broke new ground with their discussion of China’s extremely rapid vaccine development.

The report also stated that “it is unusual” that Chinese researchers were able to hit early milestones in COVID-19 vaccine development faster than the United States.

The 302-page Senate GOP report, entitled “Muddy Waters: The Origin of COVID-19,” was released on April 17 by Marshall. It was prepared by Dr. Robert Kadlec, cofounder of the Operation Warp Speed vaccine program, Dr. Bob Foster, and 117th Republican HELP Committee staff.

The report concluded the “preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research.”

Burr noted in a statement that the report is “credible and worthy of inclusion in the international effort to determine how the pandemic started so that steps can be taken to prevent, or mitigate against, future pandemics.”

This more detailed report rejects the natural origin claim once put forward by China and also Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The species of the COVID virus hasn’t been identified and unlike SARS, “the genomes of early COVID-19 cases from the first months of the pandemic do not show genetic evidence of SARS-CoV-2 having circulated in another animal species other than humans.”

Sen. Marshall said in a statement, “A preponderance of evidence in this report suggests there were two separate unintentional lab leaks dating back to fall of 2019 in Wuhan, China with significant evidence supporting that COVID-19 was a lab-created and altered virus.”

“This report also concludes that the CCP was responding to the coronavirus months before the rest of the world was even aware of its existence, yet China failed to inform the global community of the unfolding disaster,” added Marshall.