Sen. Roger Marshall says a bipartisan commission should study the origins of the pandemic.
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic may have originated with two separate leaks at Chinese labs doing risky “gain of function” research, a Republican senator stated Monday.
“We’ve concluded that they [China] started vaccine development in November 2019. And then another lab leak seems to be most sensible explanation,” he said. “There are key data points that are being held back that could help us prove that.” A pre-November series of additional events adds weight to the theory, Marshall said, including the mysterious death of 11 Iranian athletes, publicly reported in 2020. Some of the athletes reportedly attended the Olympics-style World Military Games in held Wuhan, China, in October 2019.Sen. Roger Marshall says COVID-19 may have leaked twice from Chinese labs.
Further raising the suspicions of investigators, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting risky US-funded gain of function research on coronaviruses, deleted an online database of virus samples on Sept. 12, 2019, which Marshall said likely would have shown “cousins” of COVID-19 if it was indeed from nature.Getty Images
Pressed by The Post on whether it was possible the vaccine patent was quickly filed because Chinese scientists were aware of COVID-19 in a lab without it necessarily leaking, the senator said, “I’m inviting that [possibility]. I think that’s the whole purpose of science, to shoot down those theories.”
Marshall said that he believes Democratic colleagues are warming to an investigation of the pandemic’s origins and “I’ll be curious as to how the White House responds.”AFP via Getty Images
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