Speaking before the Science and Technology Select Committee of the British Parliament, Dr. Alina Chan, a specialist in gene therapy and cell engineering at MIT and Harvard, testified that the lab leak was now considered the most likely origin of the Covid pandemic, and that there is a possibility Covid-19 is an engineered virus.
“I think the lab origin is more likely than not”, Dr. Chan said, according to the Daily Telegraph. She noted that “right now it’s not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward. But we live in an era where there is so much information being stored that it will eventually come out.”
“We have heard from many top virologists that a genetically engineered origin is reasonable and that includes virologists who made modifications to the first Sars virus. We know this virus has a unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, and without this feature there is no way this would be causing this pandemic,” Chan said.
“A proposal was leaked showing that EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were developing a pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites. So, you find these scientists who said in early 2018 ‘I’m going to put horns on horses’ and at the end of 2019 a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city.”