A Consensus of Experts: French Academy of Medicine Agres Near-Unanimously That Covid-19 Leaked from the Wuhan Lab

It's so strange how the media and Deep State only credit some consensuses of experts but not others.

Like: There are two sexes.

Origin of Covid-19: A Near Consensus in Favor of Laboratory Release

While the answer may never be known, five years after the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Academy of Medicine is leaning more toward an error at the Wuhan laboratory than toward a natural emergence of the virus. In its new report, it draws recommendations on both risk management in research and the monitoring of viral outbreaks.

"97% of the French Academy of Medicine voted almost unanimously to say that we believe SARS-CoV-2 originated from a laboratory error and that lessons must be learned from it to take precautions in the future," revealed Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy at a press conference of the French Academy of Medicine on April 2, 2025. "It's true that as a virologist, I don't see many arguments in favor of the natural emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus," added Professor Christine Rouzioux, a virologist at Necker Hospital (Paris). In a new report co-authored by these experts, the French Academy of Medicine draws on the assessment of known elements regarding the origins of the Covid-19 virus to recommend significant improvements in monitoring the emergence of zoonoses, and especially greater safety in laboratory biological experiments.

More arguments in favor of laboratory error

In 2019, the Wuhan laboratory was working on coronaviruses, this new report highlights. Another surprising element is that the first SARS-CoV-2 sequences obtained at the beginning of the epidemic in China were very homogeneous. "An RNA virus mutates very quickly, so it's a virus that had circulated very little," comments Christine Rouzioux.

A naturally evolving virus would, on the other hand, have lots of different mutations. This one didn't, because it was created to be hyperinfectious from the start.

Professor Patrick Berche, a microbiologist, agrees. "Once in circulation, this virus explodes with mutations, but when we discover it, there is no sign of adaptation to an intermediate host!"

In addition, the virus contains in its genetic material the sequence of a cleavage site for a protein called furin. "This particularity facilitates the cleavage between S1 and S2 and greatly increases the affinity of the virus's Spike protein for human cells and therefore its infectivity," explains Christine Rouzioux. Finally, Patrick Berche points out the strangeness of the pandemic's epidemiology. "The animals at the Wuhan market were transported from other locations, yet there were no animal or human outbreaks at the point of departure of these convoys. It's as if everything had magically appeared in Wuhan."

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Lessons remain to be learned, and this is the real objective of the report from the French Academy of Medicine, which does not aim to resolve the question of the origins of Covid-19, which may never be definitively answered. "The work underway in Wuhan was carried out in a BSL2 laboratory, which is therefore insufficient in terms of bioprotection of personnel and the environment," points out Christine Rouzioux. BSL2 laboratories provide for the use of laminar flow hoods (with an airflow reducing the risk of contamination).

I think this just means that workstations have hoods with fans above them... like your oven. That's it for "biosecurity."

That's why people keep saying that the Wuhan lab had about the same "biosecurity" as a common dentist's office.

But handling dangerous viruses of this type would require a BSL3 system, requiring the wearing of masks, gowns, and gloves, and stricter waste disposal. It is therefore necessary to develop "a culture of risk and responsibility" among researchers, argue the scientists from the French Academy of Medicine. "The risks are underestimated by a number of researchers," Christine Rouzioux diagnoses.

I used Google to translate the article.

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