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Wuhan Lab Scientists Studying Coronavirus Contracted COVID-19 First: Report
- Three lab researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology are believed to be the first known cases of COVID-19, according to unnamed US officials involved in investigating the origins of the pandemic. Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu are reported to have fallen ill with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019.
- Ben Hu allegedly led a gain-of-function research team at the WIV on SARS-like coronaviruses in the lead-up to the pandemic. The Wuhan lab has been at the centre of speculation over the virus' origins.
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COVID-19's 'patients zero' may have been Wuhan lab scientists, report finds
The first three people to contract COVID-19 were scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), claims a new report—a finding that could confirm the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins, if verified. The report—authored by independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag, and published on Substack—names Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu as "three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2" in…
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