The origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are hotly debated, but crucially important for understanding the totality of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian virologist Dr. Edward Holmes was targeted for congressional investigation for allegedly covering up evidence regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2.6)
On the 12th Sep 2019, the main database administered by Shi Zhengli of samples and viral sequences at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) went offline. At some point, each of the other 15 virus databases managed by the WIV was taken offline.7)
A FOIA filed by the Virginia group Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers revealed that on June 16, 2020, the NIH deleted genetic sequencing data from Wuhan at the behest of a Wuhan researcher. From those documents: “Professor Trevor Bedford of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center later sent the group an email stating that the deleted data seemed to support the idea that the pandemic began outside the Huanan market in Wuhan and that the matter must be analyzed properly.”8)
In April 2022, an NIH spokesperson stated that the data was “suppressed”, but not deleted.9)
This section may also include, or even be dominated by “investigations” that were meant to deceive rather than reveal information.
Peter Daszak admitted that he and the investigatory team did not even ask for the missing bat virus database from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.11)
Note that some of these hypotheses are not mutually exclusive.
The coronavirus may not have originated in China, says Oxford professor.14)