Chinese scientist at the Covid Controversy Center denied Leak Leak Theory: Report

WASHINGTON: Chinese scientist at the center of the theories originating from the Pandemic Coronavirus comes from a leak from a laboratory, especially in the city of Wuhan, denied that the institution is to be blamed for health disasters.

“How can I offer evidence for something where there is no evidence?” Dr. Shi Zhengli told the New York Times in a rare comment to the media.

“I don’t know how the world has arrived at this, constantly pouring defilements in an innocent scientist,” he told the US every day.

US President Joe Biden last month ordered intelligence agents to investigate the origin of Pandemi, including the Lab Leaking theory.

The hypothesis of leakage has been wolded earlier during the global outbreak, including by the predecessor of Biden Donald Trump, but is widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

But it has received an increase in traction recently, driven by reports that three researchers from the Virology Wuhan Institute became ill in 2019 after visiting the bat cave in Southwest China Province Yunnan.

Shi was an expert in Bat Coronaviruses, and some scientists said he could lead what was called the “gain-function” experiment where scientists increased the power of the virus to better study the effect on the host.

According to the New York Times, in 2017 Shi and his colleagues at the Wuhan Laboratory published a report on experiments “where they created a new hybrid coronavirus by mixing and matching several existing parts – including at least one that almost transmitted to humans – to learn Their ability to infect and replicate in human cells. “

But in an email to the newspaper, Shi said the experiments were different from the experiments of the gain-function because they did not try to make the virus more dangerous. Instead they try to understand how the virus can jump across the species.

“My lab never did or worked together in conducting GOF experiments that enhance the virus virulence,” he said.