German scientist Dr Roland Wiesendanger claims he is “99.9 per cent sure” COVID-19 was leaked from a lab.
The physicist from the University of Hamburg published a 100-page paper which reasons the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Throughout the paper he cites evidence including the fact that an animal host has yet to be discovered, concern over the lab’s safety protocols and the Institute’s focus on ‘gain-of-function’ research which looks at how they can make viral pathogens more deadly or infectious. This kind of research is also conducted by other international labs and sometimes used to help governments better prepare for potential outbreaks.
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In his paper, Dr Wiesendanger also raises concerns that COVID-19’s ability to “couple surprisingly well to human cell receptors and penetrate human cells” is the result of special cell receptor binding domains…