Headline Roundup • May 24th, 2021
Wuhan Lab Staff Sought Hospital Care Before COVID-19 Outbreak
Summary from the AllSides News Team
According to a previously undisclosed intelligence report, three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019 "“with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,” months before China first disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal said the report — which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits — might add weight to calls for a broader probe of whether the COVID-19 pandemic could have begun with a leak from the laboratory.
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Wall Street Journal (News)
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.
The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019...
CNN Digital
A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence.
A State Department fact sheet released by the Trump administration in January said that the researchers had gotten sick in autumn 2019 but did not go as far as to say they had been hospitalized. China reported to the World Health Organization that...
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Washington Examiner
Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.
The report goes beyond a State Department fact sheet issued during the final days of former President Donald Trump's administration, which said the staffers became sick in autumn 2019 "with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness," the Wall Street Journal reported.
Intelligence officials differed on the degree of evidence supporting the report's credibility, with one unidentified official telling the outlet the claims required further substantiation while another described the...
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