The special committee says COVID “most likely” leaked from the Wuhan lab

A congressional subcommittee concluded its two-year investigation into the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, finding that COVID-19 likely came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and that social distancing and masking were not supported by scientific data.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final 520-page report, saying “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.”

In support of the “laboratory leak” theory, the report said that the subcommittee learned that the virus had a biological property that does not occur in nature and that the data showed that all COVID-19 cases a single introduction into humans.

“If there was evidence of a natural origin, by almost all scientific standards it would have already emerged,” the report said.

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Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus visited the institute in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, February 3. 2021. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

The report also noted that China’s leading SARS research laboratory is located in Wuhan, “where gain-of-function research has been conducted in the past with inadequate biosafety levels,” and that the lab’s researchers were “working on a COVID-like infection.” were sick with the virus.” Fall 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered in the wet market.”

At the beginning of the pandemic, there were initial rumors that China’s wet markets, where meat, fish, fruits and vegetables and exotic animals are sold in unsanitary conditions, were the origin of the virus.

The report said there was “no conclusive evidence” that wearing masks protected Americans from COVID-19. (Getty Images, file)

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The report also found that social distancing “was not based on science.”

“During closed-door testimony, Dr. (Anthony) Fauci stated that the guidelines “just appeared, so to speak,” the report said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was chief medical adviser to the White House and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images, File)

Fauci has been the public face of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. He was heavily criticized for his handling of the pandemic.

The subcommittee also found “no conclusive evidence” that wearing masks protected Americans from COVID-19.

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The measures resulted in long-term impacts on American adults and children. The report found that unemployment skyrocketed and children “lost decades of academic progress.”