Wuhan Researcher (Chao Shao) Claims China Developed COVID as WIV/NIH ‘Bioweapon’, Funded by Fauci

Wuhan Researcher Suggests China Developed COVID As ‘Bioweapon’

June 28, 2023: A Chinese researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology told a news outlet in an interview that COVID-19 was engineered as a biological weapon by China according to a report from Asian News International (ANI). In that 26-minute interview, this researcher, Chao Shao, further revealed that his colleagues were given four strains of the virus and told to test it out on as many species as possible. They were also told by their superiors to find out how easy would it be to transmit the virus to other species like humans. In that interview, Chao Shao called COVID-19 a “bioweapon.”

Shao recalled back in 2019 several of his fellow virologists went missing during the 2019 Military World Games that happened in Wuhan and that one of those virologists admitted to Shao that they were sent to the hotels where foreign athletes stayed to conduct hygiene checks. This was suspicious as such checks do not require virologists and led to concerns that they were sent to spread the virus. A similar mysterious health check was conducted in April 2020 in a Uyghur re-education camp. “Once again, since conducting health checks doesn’t require a virologist, he [Shao’s colleague] strongly implied that he was sent to either spread the virus or to observe how the virus worked on humans,” claimed Shao.

When former president Trump claimed that he saw evidence suggesting that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan back in 2020 he was almost universally derided by the corporate press. CNN ran headlines reading “Anthony Fauci just crushed Donald Trump’s theory on the origins of the coronavirus” and wrote that Trump was contradicting statements by his intelligence community. Vice News sneered at the claim by writing “Trump’s Wuhan Lab Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Is Bogus, According to, Uh, Everyone.”

The Washington Post in its fact check rated Trump’s comment about a lab theory as “doubtful.” Vanity Fair went off about how the science is settled, the discussion is over, and that Trump’s theory is “highly unlikely.” Then a different tune was struck by such outlets after the 2020 election. Now there is serious consideration of the lab leak theory. Given the aforementioned interview with a Wuhan researcher, this would constitute potential evidence in favor of the lab leak theory.

Dr. Fauci’s denial that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded gain of function research in the same Wuhan lab that may be responsible for the leak of the virus was discredited by the NIH itself and by documents showing this relationship.