The latest major revelation in this line emerged this week. Taken at face value, it’s extraordinary: Ben Hu, a high-level researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and two colleagues, Yu Ping and Zhu Yan, could have been the first people on the planet to be infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to anonymous sources cited first in the newsletter Public and then in The Wall Street Journal. These proposed patient SARS-CoV-zeros aren’t merely employees of the virology institute; they’re central figures in the very sort of research that lab-leak investigators have been scrutinizing since the start of the pandemic. Their names appear on crucial papers related to the discovery of new, SARS-related coronaviruses in bats, and subsequent experimentation on those viruses.

Is this the “smoking gun,” at last, as many now insist? Has the Case of the Missing COVID Origin finally been solved? Hu and Yu each denied the allegations in emails to Science, saying they did not get sick in autumn 2019. “My colleagues and I tested for SARS-CoV-2 antibody in early March 2020 and we were all negative,” Hu wrote. But those denials notwithstanding, if these researchers did turn out to be the very first infected people, then their professional activities would mean they almost certainly caught the virus in the lab, not a market stall full of marmots and raccoon dogs. The origins debate has from the start revolved around a pair of dueling “coincidences.” The fact that the pandemic just happened to take off at a wet market suggests that the virus spilled over into humans from animals for sale there. But the fact that it also just happened to take off not too far away from one of the world’s leading bat-coronavirus labs suggests the opposite. This week’s information seems to tip the balance very heavily toward the latter interpretation.

The only problem is, we don’t know whether the latest revelations can be trusted, or to what extent. The newly reported facts appear to stem from a single item of intelligence, furnished by a foreign source, that has bounced around inside the U.S. government since sometime in 2020. Over the past two and a half years, the full description of the sickened workers in Wuhan has been revealed with excruciating slowness, in sedimenting clauses, through well-timed leaks. This glacial striptease has finally reached its end, but is the underlying information even true? Until that question can be answered (which could be never), the origins debate will be stuck exactly where it’s been for many months: always moving forward, never quite arriving.

The story of these sickened workers has been in the public domain, one way or another, since the start of 2021. Officials in the Trump administration’s State Department, reportedly determined to go public with their findings, put out a fact sheet about various events and circumstances at the Wuhan Institute of Virology around the beginning of the pandemic. Included was a quick description of alleged illnesses among the staff. The fact sheet didn’t name the sickened scientists or what they did inside the lab, or when exactly their illnesses occurred. It didn’t specify their symptoms, nor did it say how many scientists had gotten sick.

Patient zero?

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https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/08/01/has-covids-patient-z...

Sounds very much like hogwash.

Sounds very much like hogwash

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 25^th, 2025 at 4:47am:


Patient Zero for Covid worked in Wuhan lab which is a fact the stupid Mong ignores.

Robert Redfield a Virologist and former head of the CDC has said Lab Leak from day 1.

Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 26^th, 2025 at 4:09pm:


The White House know it's a lab leak they aren't going to change this because of a duckwit or stupid incel mong from Tasmania.

This is why they gave Fauci a pre emptive pardon for everything he did from 2014-2024.
They know Fauci funded Peter Daszak to create this virus with NIH funding.

There is no Coronavirus with Furin Cleavage Site at S1/2 in the 1000+ virusus in records.
The gain of function research Dazak did proposed putting a FCS at S1/2.

The WHO has said China has and still obstructs investigation into origins of C19.

Dr Li Wenliang went public with C19 in 2019 the CCP silenced him.

Numerous media from NY Post to WSJ and London Times have reported patient zero was from Wuhan Lab.

China demolished wet market on Jan 1st 2020 2 weeks later they were telling WHO no evidence of human to human Transmission.

Before the end of January China were welding apartment doors shut to contain those with covid.

December 6 2020  China suggested that SARS-CoV-2 could have originated outside China and been imported to Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Market via frozen meat products, including Australian steak.

Peter Daszak organised that Lancet paper calling lab leak a conspiracy theory on February 18, 2020
26 out of the 27 signatories to the February 2020 Lancet letter have documented links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
These connections were not disclosed in the original letter, where all signatories claimed "no competing interests".

They tried to cover it up Covid 19 was man made.
Fauci funded it through NIH
Daszak from Eco health Allaince proposed the exact virus we got in pandemic.
Made in China under Bio Safety level 2 instead of BSL 3.

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