Chinese scientists sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2 in early January 2020 and by March of that year had “irrefutably” concluded the virus was not of human design. Since then, the goalposts have shifted repeatedly in an attempt to keep laboratory escape a viable theory, despite no evidence to support the continued supposition.
Amid a flurry of statements by US health figures suggesting a deeper probe of the Wuhan Institute of Virology is warranted as part of the hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, China's state media has shot back, suggesting that the top US biolab at Fort Detrick should also be investigated.
“Since 2019, the Fort Detrick biolab has shown many signs worthy of attention, and should be included in the first group of targets for investigation. In addition, the US has also built an astonishing number of biolabs in Asia, and investigating them is an urgent project that must be added in the COVID-19 origins-tracing,” the editorial notes.
US Biolab Has Leaked Before
Based in northern Maryland, Fort Detrick was once the center of the Pentagon's bioweapons program and today houses several agencies focused on biodefense and research into some of the world's deadliest diseases, including smallpox, anthrax, and viral hemorrhagic fevers like ebola.
In addition, the FBI's prime suspect for the 2001 anthrax attacks that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks and killed five people, Bruce Ivins, was a senior…
