The taxpayer-funded National Institute of Health reportedly conducted experiments with coronaviruses more than a year before the global outbreak of Covid-19, a new investigation has found.
The NIH infected 12 Egyptian fruit bats with WIV1, a “SARS-like” virus, at a Montana lab in 2018. The bats were obtained from a Maryland “roadside” zoo that lies just 15 minutes away from Camp David, according to the Daily Mail.
The WIV1-coronavirus was shipped from the same Wuhan laboratory where some experts believe the 2020 pandemic-causing virus leaked from.