Sources: COVID-19 Originated in Wuhan Lab

Speculation about the origin of COVID-19 has been circulating for months.

There is no doubt China engaged in a cover-up.

There would be no reason to lie to the world if the virus really just started naturally in a wet market. There would be no reason to prevent officials from other countries into China to assist. There would be no reason to make the Chinese whistleblowers disappear and no reason to silence researchers. None of China's reaction to the outbreak has made sense.

So what is China hiding?

What is #China hiding? See this: https://t.co/CGhkisyQzM. #coronavirus #Wuhan

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) April 16, 2020

The coronavirus that has caused illness, death, and economic crisis around the world appears to have originated in a Wuhan lab.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the #coronavirus escaped from one of the two bio labs in #Wuhan, probably the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Patient Zero is almost certainly a worker there. See: https://t.co/7xyiYo0d2E. #China @FoxNews

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) April 15, 2020

This story, from ⁦@BretBaier⁩, was the basis of ⁦@johnrobertsFox⁩’s question to POTUS at the WH briefing tonight. https://t.co/MPd63Lol0Q

— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 15, 2020

From Bret Baier:

EXCLUSIVE: There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.

...The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.

...Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy.

U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

...China "100 percent" suppressed data and changed data, the sources tell Fox News. Samples were destroyed, contaminated areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled.

There were doctors and journalists who were "disappeared" warning of the spread of the virus and its contagious nature and human to human transmission. China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.

Additionally, the sources tell Fox News the World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit from the beginning in helping China cover its tracks.

China quickly shut down travel from Wuhan to the rest of China to contain the virus. Meanwhile, China and the World Health Organization permitted people from Wuhan to travel all over the world.

Nothing could have been more irresponsible.

It's close to an act of war.

If true, it's unforgivable.