In an explosive new op-ed, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that at least 15 separate federal agencies knew that attempts to create a COVID-19-like coronavirus were underway at the Institute of Wuhan virology since January. 2018
However, the heads of these agencies did not disclose this information to the public; for years, they actively refused to release information about the project to lawmakers like Paul, who were trying to provide congressional oversight.
“For years, I have been fighting to obtain records from dozens of federal agencies related to the origins of COVID-19 and the DEFUSE project,” wrote Paul, who in March revealed he was formally launching a bipartisan investigation into the origins of the virus with the Democrat. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan.
The DEFUSE project refers to a proposal put forward by the EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based non-governmental organization headed by British zoologist Peter Daszak and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The goal of the proposal was to “insert a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus to create a new chimeric virus.”
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