New Evidence Reveals Closer to Uncovering the Truth on the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the continuous exposure of new evidence, the truth behind the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the CCP virus, is getting closer to being unveiled.
Recently, U.S. Senator Rand Paul disclosed parts of the diary of former chief infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci. Despite vehemently opposing the lab leak theory, Fauci wrote in his diary on January 26, 2020, “Based on epidemiological and genomic data, it appears that the first infection occurred in early December, unrelated to the (Wuhan Huanan) market. People had been infected for weeks before the Chinese authorities reported the discovery of a new disease… Now we know that the market wasn’t the origin of the virus, but rather a place of transmission.”
After years of investigation, the U.S. House “COVID-19 Pandemic Special Committee” released a 520-page final report on December 2, 2024, concluding that the virus likely originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
On January 25, 2026, the CIA issued a statement supporting the theory that the COVID-19 virus (CCP virus) pandemic originated from an accidental leak at the Wuhan lab.
The lab in question is the Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There is a close relationship between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the CCP, with increasing evidence pointing towards the involvement of the Chinese military in these events.
The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, also known as the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, is the highest military medical research institution in China, with extensive collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
A report released by the Rubio office of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in May 2023 mentioned close and stable cooperation between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences. This collaboration included research on MERS and SARS, vaccine development, and more.
The report indicated that researchers from the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, including Zhou Yusen, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, particularly researcher Shi Zhengli, collaborated closely and co-authored an academic report in 2019.
Evidence of contact between Shi Zhengli and military scientists surfaced in a report by NBC on June 29, 2021. The report revealed that Shi Zhengli collaborated with military scientists Tong Yigang and Zhou Yusen in 2018 on coronavirus research.
In January 2021, the U.S. State Department published a fact sheet on the “Activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” indicating that despite presenting itself as a civilian institution, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had collaborated with the Chinese military on publications and classified projects. Since at least 2017, the institute had been involved in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military, including laboratory animal experiments.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has long been engaged in gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. Gain-of-function research involves altering a pathogen’s characteristics through experiments to understand how viruses evolve, transmit across species, and develop vaccines, drugs, or warning systems better.
On November 9, 2015, the prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal Nature Medicine published a paper titled “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” with co-author Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The paper raised concerns about risks associated with gain-of-function research.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology team published several subsequent research papers on “enhancing pathogen potential,” describing experiments with reverse genetics to build infectious clones, replace spike proteins, and test the infectivity of various bat coronaviruses in human cells.
Another paper published in the renowned scientific journal Nature studied a bat coronavirus causing lethal diarrhea syndrome in pigs. The authors included 13 researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and 13 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences. Shi Zhengli and Tong Yigang were co-corresponding authors or key contributors to the paper, which indicated their collaboration in 2017.
According to a recent declassified document released by the U.S. Senate Committee, senior expert Zhou Yusen from the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Research secretly sent coronavirus samples to a lab in Minnesota through express mail in November 2018, highlighting secret Chinese military research on coronaviruses.
A paper submitted to the American Society for Microbiology Journal in 2019 titled “Molecular mechanism of antibody-dependent enhancement of coronavirus entry” had 13 co-authors, including Dr. Shi Zhengli and Dr. Zhou Yusen from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Dr. Lin Xiaoxu, a former U.S. Army microbiologist, expressed to the media concerns about the dual-use nature of gain-of-function research, suggesting that the collaboration between the Chinese military and the Wuhan Institute of Virology could potentially allow the Chinese military to exploit relevant technologies for bioweapons development.
Following the global outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, suspicions arose regarding the virus’s origin, with some suggesting it could have been a biological weapon developed by the Chinese military.
The theory of using coronaviruses to create biological weapons was first proposed by the Chinese military. In August 2015, the China Military Medical Science Press published a book titled “Non-Natural Origin of SARS and Genetic Weapon of a New Type of Man-Made Virus.” The authors, Xu Dezhong and Li Feng, are Chinese military medical experts.
The book described the SARS coronavirus as heralding a “new era of genetic weapons.” It stated, “From the perspective that a recombinant virus can more easily infect humans, the SARS virus has opened a new era of biochemical warfare.” The book suggested that such viruses could be manipulated “into new emerging human disease viruses by man-made means and then become weapons released in ways never seen before.”
The book predicted that the third world war would be fought with biological weapons.
After reviewing hundreds of documents, confidential reports, internal memoranda, scientific papers, and email exchanges, as well as interviewing investigators from the U.S. State Department and epidemiologists, the Times published an investigative report on June 10, 2023. The report concluded that the COVID-19 virus was a genetically engineered virus developed in collaboration between scientists from the Wuhan lab and the Chinese military for bioweapons purposes, accidentally leaked from the lab.
A report by the U.S. State Department in August 2005 identified two entities related to offensive biological weapons programs: the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology at the Military Medical Science Academy of the Chinese Ministry of Defense in Beijing and the Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products.
The Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the Chinese military is the highest military medical research institution, and due to its involvement in sensitive military biological technology applications, it was added to the U.S. Entity List for sanctions at the end of 2021.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Chen Wei, the director of the Institute of Biological Engineering at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, a major general, was quickly dispatched to the epidemic epicenter in Wuhan. Chen Wei also holds the title of CCP “Chief Bio-weapon Defense Expert” and has long been involved in developing new vaccines and drugs for highly pathogenic microbial pathogens, including SARS, Ebola virus, and COVID-19.
On January 31, 2020, the PLA Daily disclosed a brief report revealing that a team led by Chen Wei and military experts arrived in Wuhan on January 26. This was the fourth day of Wuhan’s lockdown, and she stated that they were “prepared for the worst.”
Due to Chen Wei’s unique background, questions were raised about the virus’s origin and the military laboratory’s related functions. There were widespread speculations and discussions on the internet, with many questioning why a biosecurity expert was sent to Wuhan and whether it was related to a potential bioweapon leak.
Simultaneously, the Chinese military swiftly developed vaccines.
The World Health Organization declared the pandemic a “global emergency” on January 30, 2020, and the Chinese government confirmed human-to-human transmission, elevating the epidemic response to a national level on January 20th, with Wuhan going into lockdown three days later.
Nevertheless, the Chinese military submitted the first vaccine patent application. Documents obtained by The Australian revealed that the first official COVID-19 vaccine patent application was submitted by a team of twelve, including Zhou Yusen from the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences. The patent application was filed on February 24, 2020, preceding the WHO’s declaration of a global pandemic and the Chinese government’s first acknowledgment of the outbreak by only 35 days.
Reportedly, this vaccine was neither an mRNA vaccine nor an inactivated vaccine but rather a fusion protein vaccine, with animal experiment data attached to the patent application.
In April 2023, a GOP report from the U.S. Senate highlighted the improbable timeline of the vaccine’s early completion unless Zhou Yusen’s team had started development before the outbreak in late December 2019.
The report stated that Zhou Yusen had intermittent collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers in the years leading up to the outbreak and might have even worked at the institute. It was suggested that Zhou Yusen began collaborating with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers on SARS-related coronavirus animal research no later than the summer or early fall of 2019.
On March 16, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the team led by Chen Wei from the military was the first to be approved for clinical trials on the mainland, despite the suspicions on the swift vaccine development.
Regarding the issue of pandemic origin, the timing of the virus leak is crucial.
According to official Chinese claims, the first reported case of COVID-19 occurred on December 8, 2019, suggesting the Wuhan outbreak may have started between mid-November and early December 2019.
However, a Republican Senate report argued that the Chinese government intentionally misled the timeline by about a month. The report cited epidemiological and genetic models suggesting that the first human infections of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus) may have occurred between mid-October and early November or mid-November.
Moreover, reports indicated that several military athletes from different countries exhibited symptoms resembling COVID-19 during the 7th CISM Military World Games held in Wuhan from October 18 to 27, 2019.
Athletes from these countries raised concerns about possible infection on return flights, with about 60 individuals exhibiting symptoms like fever, cough, and diarrhea. Matteo Tagliariol, an Italian Olympic gold medalist in fencing, mentioned experiencing similar symptoms after participation in the games.
The intricate relationships between the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, coupled with their collaborative research on coronavirus gain-of-function, the Chinese military’s assertions on biological warfare, and the rapid vaccine development post-pandemic, point to a complex web of connections between the Chinese military and the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dr. Lin Xiaoxu emphasized, “The Chinese communist regime’s development of biological weapons has several decades of history. It wants to confront the United States, so it wants to find its unique weapon, and biochemical weapons are a strategic high ground it undoubtedly wants to occupy. The international community must not forget where the danger lies.”
As the investigation continues into the origin of the pandemic, the connections between the Chinese military and the COVID-19 outbreak grow more intricate by the day.