Wuhan Lab Staff Were "So Sick They Sought Hospitalization" in Nov 2019, According to U.S. Intelligence

3 researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in Nov 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 SARS-CoV-2 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 & other pathogens, became sick in fall 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both COVID19 & common seasonal illness.”

The disclosure of the # of researchers, the timing of their illnesses & their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the WHO’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of COVID19.