Prof Jeffrey Sachs says before the pandemic, work on Sars-like coronaviruses was being carried out - Horacio Villalobos/Corbis News
Prof Jeffrey Sachs says before the pandemic, work on Sars-like coronaviruses was being carried out - Horacio Villalobos/Corbis News

The emergence of Covid-19 may have been the result of US experiments, according to Prof Jeffrey Sachs.

Prof Sachs, who has twice been named in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, called for universities and research institutions to open up their databases for scrutiny.

Covid-19 began spreading from a wet market eight miles from the WIV.

Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market is where the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China - HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market is where the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China - HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP

The chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, Prof Sachs, wrote in the journal PNAS that it was clear that scientists from the University of North Carolina and the EcoHealth Alliance were working with the Viruses.

Research proposals make clear that the collaboration was involved in the collection of a large number of so-far undocumented Sars-like viruses and was engaged in their manipulation.

The authors said that before the Pandemic, work on coronaviruses was being carried out as part of a highly collaborative US and China research program.

The goal of the project was to identify the viruses which had the potential to leap from animals to humans.

Researchers collected bat coronaviruses from China and southeast Asia.

A butcher selling a yak's head to a customer at a market in Beijing. PREDICT sought to identify viruses which had the potential to leap from animals to humans - NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

US experiments remain unknown

China removed a database of viral sequences shortly before the Pandemic erupted, and failed to reveal much of the work that was happening.

The authors argue that US experiments have never been disclosed for independent analysis.

The exact nature of the experiments that were conducted, including the full array of viruses collected from the field, remains unknown.

The group of Chinese/US scientists had submitted proposals to insert a feature into the furin cleavage site, which is a part of the sars-like viruses.

The reason the virus is so infectious to humans is because of Covid-19. The feature of the coronaviruses is believed to be evidence that the virus was made by a man. Others think it happened naturally.

Scientists from the University of North Carolina, EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology applied for funding to insert an FCS into a sars-like virus less than two years before the epidemic, according to leaked proposals.

The funding request was turned down because it was unsafe.

The authors of the journal said that they don't know if the introduction of the FCS into a sars-like virus was the result of natural evolution or a deliberate introduction.

The EHA-WIV-UNC partnership submitted a grant proposal to Darpa that included a specific goal of the work to insert the FCS sequence into the viruses.

We don't know if some of the proposed work was carried out using another source of funding or if the proposal was not funded at all.

Independent and transparent investigation needed

There is too much of an evolutionary gap between the published lab data and the published lab data that Covid-19 could not have emerged from.

If investigators were given access to unpublished viral sequences, that claim could be verified.

There is much to learn from the US institutions that were involved in research that may have contributed to or documented the emergence of the sars-coV-2 virus.

Only an independent and transparent investigation, perhaps as a bipartisan Congressional inquiry, will reveal the information that is needed to enable a thorough scientific process of scrutiny and evaluation.

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