Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote an opinion piece on Fox News where he described the “alarming and dangerous” research leading up to the COVID-19 virus.
Paul wrote that a recent investigation into what he calls the “Great COVID Cover-Up” found that “government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.”
The project, called DEFUSE, sought to “insert a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus to create a novel chimeric virus that would have been shockingly similar to the COVID-19 virus.”
A chimera virus contains genetic material from two or more viruses.
Paul asserts that at least 15 federal agencies knew that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought federal funding to create a virus similar to COVID-19.
“Disturbingly, not one of these 15 agencies spoke up to warn us that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been pitching this research. Not one of these agencies warned anyone that this Chinese lab had already put together plans to create such a virus,” the senator wrote.
Paul added that it is likely that “hundreds of people in the government knew of this proposal to create a COVID-19-like virus and virtually every one of these people chose to keep quiet, to obscure, and ultimately to conceal information that might have saved lives by letting the world know this was no sleepy animal virus with poor transmission.”
“No, all evidence suggests COVID-19 was a laboratory-enhanced virus purposefully adapted for human transmission,” he declared.
American Faith reported that Project Veritas obtained never-before-seen military documents that reveal “EcoHealth Alliance approached the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in March 2018 seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat-borne coronaviruses.”
The documents were given to PV by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow, including a report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense.
A portion of the report pointed out that the EcoHealth Alliance proposal “does not mention or assess potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research.”
