Covid ‘almost surely' made in US lab
He made the statement in an interview with Andrew Napolitano on the Judging Freedom podcast on Saturday.
The coronavirus that caused the pandemic 'from the very beginning had the telltale signs that it was made in a laboratory,' Sachs said, adding that he studied the problem for years while chairing a global commission on the issues.
The CIA 'finally' released the truth, which is that the virus came out of a lab, he said. The agency stated in January that it believes it is 'more likely' that Covid-19 originated from research than that it occurred naturally.
What they didn't tell you and what's quite important is that it almost surely was made in a US laboratory. Not in a Chinese laboratory.
Covid-19 may have been tested in a research facility in China, 'but it was made in a US laboratory, probably in the University of North Carolina (UNC),' Sachs said.
'One very good theory is that the Wuhan facility has a colony of a specific kind of bat population that the US scientists wanted to use for testing this new virus,' he elaborated.
The official position of the administration of US President Donald Trump is that the pandemic originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
However, according to Sachs, 'there's a big trail of evidence' pointing to Covid-19 being developed in the US.
It's awful. And it was hidden by the Biden administration.
Sachs noted that UNC is refusing to release work emails sent throughout 2019-2021, despite being sued. 'They're holding these emails secretly and fighting, fighting nonstop to keep them from public scrutiny,' he added.
UNC and US-based nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance have been repeatedly questioned by Congress since the pandemic due to their work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Last May, the US Department of Health and Human Services suspended all federal funding to EcoHealth, citing concerns over its high-risk research and lack of oversight.
Russia has repeatedly expressed concerns about the biological research laboratories supported by the Pentagon and other US agencies abroad, especially near Russian borders, accusing Washington of carrying out covert bioweapon research.
The former commander of Russia's radiological, chemical, and biological defense forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, had repeatedly accused the US of maintaining secret biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere prior to his assassination by Ukrainian agents.
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