Newly surfaced report provides more clues on COVID outbreak source and timeline

A 2022 Defense Department study agelong withheld by the Biden medication has precocious surfaced and reveals that 7 U.S. work members showed COVID-19-like symptoms aft having competed successful the World Military Games successful Wuhan, China, months earlier the deadly microorganism archetypal broke retired successful the U.S.

The explosive disclosure suggests that the microorganism was circulating successful Wuhan months earlier China disclosed it to the satellite successful December 2019. The games took spot successful October 2019, 2 months earlier. 

It besides challenges the Biden administration’s nationalist claims successful 2021 that determination was nary grounds that immoderate American participants contracted the microorganism astatine those games. The CIA, FBI and Energy Department person each present suggested that the COVID-19 microorganism pandemic may person originated via a laboratory leak from the city’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A 2022 Defense Department study agelong withheld by the Biden medication has precocious surfaced and reveals that 7 U.S. work members showed COVID-19-like symptoms aft having competed successful the World Military Games successful Wuhan, China, months earlier the deadly microorganism archetypal broke retired successful the U.S. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts | Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

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The 2022 study was legally required to beryllium released publically online much than 2 years agone "in a searchable format," but it lone became disposable immoderate clip successful precocious March, erstwhile the Trump medication uploaded it to a Defense Department website, The Washington Free Beacon reported. 

The outlet reported that the Biden medication did nonstop copies of the study to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees successful December 2022, but the study was ne'er made disposable online by the administration. 

The study recovered that of the 263 U.S. delegation that traveled to the event, 7 U.S. members showed COVID-19-like symptoms betwixt Oct. 18, 2019 and Jan. 21, 2020. All symptoms were resolved wrong six days and could beryllium attributed to different respiratory illnesses​.

A unpaid successful protective cogwheel waits for residents astatine a coronavirus investigating installation successful Beijing successful 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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The study besides recovered that determination were nary important outbreaks of COVID-19-like symptoms astatine Defense Department facilities aft the athletes returned, though work members were not tested for COVID-19 oregon antibodies arsenic investigating was not disposable astatine that aboriginal signifier of the pandemic.

However, Washington was 1 of the earliest states to amusement a spike successful COVID-19, and the U.S. squad utilized chartered flights to and from the games via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Prospect reported.

Then-Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told the Washington Post in June 2021 that the subject had "no knowledge" of immoderate COVID-19 infections among the troops that participated successful those games.

The Pentagon, during Trump’s archetypal term, said successful June 2020 that determination was nary crushed to trial members arsenic the lawsuit was held "prior to the reported outbreak," Prospect reported. 

People hold successful enactment to trial for COVID-19 connected Jan. 12, 2022, successful Long Beach, California.

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Other planetary athletes reported having travel down with COVID-19-like symptoms, the Daily Mail reported successful June 2021. 

The games person agelong been suspected arsenic being a "super spreader" lawsuit which took spot adjacent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance, partially funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health was conducting summation of relation probe there. 

"Many of the athletes said ​Wuhan looked similar a ‘ghost town’ successful October‚ 2 months earlier China reported the archetypal lawsuit of coronavirus there," the New York Post reported.

Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., in 2021 said that those months were captious and could person helped the United States recognize the illness and "shut down question earlier successful bid to halt the dispersed and yet prevention perchance millions of lives."

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