{"id":1953300,"date":"2023-06-21T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-funded-chinese-scientist-fell-ill-amid-covid-outbreak-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:42:25","slug":"us-funded-chinese-scientist-fell-ill-amid-covid-outbreak-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-funded-chinese-scientist-fell-ill-amid-covid-outbreak-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US-funded Chinese scientist became sick during COVID outbreak: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-funded-chinese-scientist-fell-ill-amid-covid-outbreak-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>A Scientist Funded by the U.S. Government Falls Ill with COVID-19<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new report has revealed a startling discovery &#8211; one of the first individuals to contract what is believed to be COVID-19 was none other than a scientist studying coronaviruses. What&#8217;s even more surprising is that this scientist was funded by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">According to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, a scientist named Ben Hu from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of the first researchers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bills-fighting-chinese-communist-partys-influence-in-u-s\/\" title=\"DeSantis Signs Bills Fighting Chinese Communist Party's Influence in U.S.\">fall ill<\/a> with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic. Hu had been conducting lab research, funded by the United States, on the impact of coronaviruses on humans.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-funded-chinese-scientist-fell-ill-amid-covid-outbreak-report\/\" title=\"US-funded Chinese scientist became sick during COVID outbreak: Report.\">report adds weight<\/a> to the theory that the pandemic originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, and suggests that U.S. funding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">coronavirus research<\/a> may have played a role in the development of this novel virus, leading to months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-economy-inflation-hits-highest-levels-since-great-recession-soars-past-economists-expectations\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Under Biden Inflation Has Hit Record Levels Since Great Recession\">government-mandated lockdowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">This revelation comes just a month after a report by Republican senator Marco Rubio concluded that the Wuhan lab was the likely source of the virus. The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/COVID-Origins-Full-Report-EMBARGOED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">328-page report<\/a> highlights systemic negligence among scientists and government incompetence, which left the lab vulnerable to a potential leak.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Both the Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1695714\">Department<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/fbi-says-it-has-long-known-most-likely-covid-cause-was-lab-leak\/\">FBI<\/a> have identified the Wuhan lab as the probable origin of the virus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/report-us-agencies-made-duplicate-payments-to-wuhan-lab-suspected-of-covid-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reports<\/a> indicate that the U.S. government may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-us-agencies-made-duplicate-payments-to-wuhan-lab-suspected-of-covid-leak\/\" title=\"Report: US Agencies Made Duplicate Payments to Wuhan Lab Suspected of COVID Leak\">made duplicate payments<\/a>, potentially amounting to tens of millions of dollars, to the Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report disclosed that a U.S.-funded scientist studying coronaviruses, Ben Hu from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was among the initial individuals to contract COVID-19-like symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1953301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4117,4127,6358,3819,10798,6656,22703],"class_list":["post-1953300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-covid","tag-outbreak","tag-report","tag-scientist","tag-sick","tag-us-funded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}