A Congressional subcommittee on Monday concluded a two-year investigation into the coronavirus pandemic, finding that the coronavirus likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and that social distancing and mask-wearing are not recommended. was found to be unsupported by scientific data.
The Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its 520-page final report stating that “the novel coronavirus most likely originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.”
Supporting the “lab leak” theory, the report says the virus has biological characteristics not found in nature and data suggest that all COVID-19 cases are caused by a single human entry. The subcommittee stated that the subcommittee found that this was caused by the
“By almost every measure of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin, it would already have surfaced,” the report says.
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On February 3, members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) coronavirus visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. Security guards stand guard outside the Virus Research Institute. 2021. (Héctor Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
The report also notes that China's main SARS research laboratory is located in Wuhan and has a “history of conducting gain-of-function research with inadequate levels of biosafety,” and that the institute's researchers He also pointed out that he had been infected with a virus similar to the new coronavirus in China. This was in the fall of 2019, several months before the new coronavirus was discovered at a wet market. ”
At the beginning of the pandemic, the first rumors swirled that the virus originated in Chinese wet markets known for selling meat, fish, produce and exotic animals in unsanitary conditions.
The report said there is “no conclusive evidence” that wearing masks protects Americans from COVID-19. (Getty Images, File)
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The report also found that social distancing measures are “not based in science.”
“During private testimony, Dr. [Anthony] Mr. Fauci testified that the guidance was “in some ways just emerging,'' the report said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was the White House's chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (SAUL LOEB/AFP, via Getty Images, File)
Fauci has been the public face of the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. He has faced intense criticism for his handling of the pandemic.
The subcommittee also found that there is “no conclusive evidence” that wearing masks protects Americans from COVID-19.
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This action had long-term effects on American adults and children. The report found that unemployment rates had soared and children had “lost decades worth of academic progress”.
