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        <h1 class="reader-title">VIDEO: A 2nd Compromised WHO
          “Investigator” Admits Labs in China Are Manipulating
          Coronaviruses</h1>
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              <p><em><strong>“If the Wuhan institute were found to be
                    the source of COVID, it could threaten the
                    credibility and funding of virology labs such as
                    Koopmans’s.” — </strong></em><strong><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/did-covid-19-escape-wuhan-lab-who-report-cant-be-final-word/"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The
                    Washington Post</a></strong><em><strong><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/did-covid-19-escape-wuhan-lab-who-report-cant-be-final-word/"
                      target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">,</a>
                    March 22, 2021</strong></em></p>
              <p>There’s a reason you don’t put foxes in charge of the
                henhouse, and it’s the same reason why it’s utterly
                bonkers for the WHO to rely on COI-riddled investigators
                to get to the bottom of the pandemic’s origin.</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p dir="ltr" lang="en">WHO Investigator Admitted A Year
                  Ago That Chinese Labs Manipulated Coronaviruses, Now
                  Denies It<a href="https://t.co/PwprjFZ33B">https://t.co/PwprjFZ33B</a></p>
                <p>— The Federalist (@FDRLST) <a
href="https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1376893222014701572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
                    30, 2021</a></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p><br>
                As WCW first exposed, WHO “investigator” Peter Daszak—<a
href="https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2021/03/15/busted-us-org-that-sent-tax-to-wuhan-animal-lab-broke-federal-law-a-lot/">who
                  secretively shipped U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan
                  Animal lab to supercharge coronaviruses—</a>is one big
                cause for concern and closer scrutiny.</p>
              <p><strong>But, there’s also a second compromised WHO
                  “investigator”–Marion Koopmans-</strong>– who has
                suspiciously downplayed the possibility COVID-19 leaked
                from the Wuhan Animal Lab, too! She has been directly
                involved in risky and cruel animal experiments <strong>funded
                  by tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars</strong> at
                Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.</p>
              <center></center>
              <p><strong><em>“We are now looking whether we can change
                    those viruses,” Koopmans says in this <a
                      href="https://youtu.be/Nbw_m2qCSAY">February 2020
                      interview uncovered by WCW investigators</a>. “Can
                    we add this virus to it, or can we adjust those
                    viruses to include this one. This is actively
                    happening in a few places worldwide, also in China.”</em></strong></p>
              <p>That’s right. Even though she’s dismissed the lab leak
                hypothesis, WCW investigators uncovered <strong><a
                    href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbw_m2qCSAY"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this
                    newly-surfaced interview</a></strong> from last year
                where Koopmans admits that animal labs in China have
                been manipulating natural coronaviruses—which, of
                course, is the crux of the lab leak hypothesis.</p>
              <div id="attachment_25468" class="wp-caption">
                <p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-25468"
src="https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/image001.png"
                    alt="" width="478" height="340"></p>
                <p id="caption-attachment-25468" class="wp-caption-text">Actual
                  photo of ferrets infected with manipulated flu viruses
                  in Koopmans’ lab at Erasmus University.</p>
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              <p><br>
                Koopmans’ own experiments, including those paid for with
                your taxpayer dollars, involve supercharging swine flu
                to make it deadlier and more contagious, infecting
                ferrets, mice, and guinea pigs with the new virus
                strains.</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨EXC: WHO COVID ‘Investigator’
                  Is Chinese CDC Advisor Who Accepted CCP Research
                  Grants.<a href="https://t.co/YenlOnhNeu">https://t.co/YenlOnhNeu</a></p>
                <p>— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) <a
href="https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1361415616964386818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February
                    15, 2021</a></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p>Koopmans has also <a
href="https://thenationalpulse.com/news/exc-who-covid-investigator-is-chinese-cdc-advisor-who-accepted-ccp-research-grants/"
                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">received
                  funding from the Chinese government</a>, whose
                obfuscation was called out by the Biden administration
                (and others) as standing in the way of getting to the
                bottom of COVID-19’s origins.</p>
              <p>In fact, the <a
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-still-hasn-t-completely-ruled-out-lab-accident-n1258032"
                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Biden White
                  House</a> specifically said it could not rule out the
                possibility of COVID having leaked from the Wuhan Animal
                Lab, because of the Chinese government’s lack of
                transparency.</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“Perhaps the WHO final report
                  will supply evidence to justify the investigators’
                  apparent lack of interest in pursuing the lab-leak
                  theory. Does the WHO have the names of the lab
                  researchers who fell ill? Were they interviewed?” <a
                    href="https://t.co/k31SfPEzMu">https://t.co/k31SfPEzMu</a></p>
                <p>— Alison Young (@alisonannyoung) <a
href="https://twitter.com/alisonannyoung/status/1374168623296696320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
                    23, 2021</a></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p>In a <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/did-covid-19-escape-wuhan-lab-who-report-cant-be-final-word/"
                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Washington
                    Post</em> column, </a>David Feith, the former U.S.
                Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
                Pacific Affairs, explains why Koopmans has a vested
                interest in dismissing the lab leak hypothesis:</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p>Koopmans, by the way, has been associated with and
                  now <a
                    href="https://www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/researchers/koopmans-marion"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">oversees</a> a
                  Dutch lab that in 2011 caused an international <a
href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/11/scientists-brace-media-storm-around-controversial-flu-studies"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">uproar</a> over
                  risky “<a
                    href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro3405"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">gain of
                    function</a>” virology experiments that made a
                  deadly influenza virus more transmissible among
                  ferrets and possibly therefore among humans. (Ferrets
                  and humans have similar respiratory biology.) This led
                  scientists and governments worldwide, including the
                  Obama administration, to favor <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/white-house-to-cut-funding-for-risky-biological-study.html"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">limits</a>
                  on lab experiments involving potential pandemic
                  pathogens, as they are called.</p>
                <p>This is precisely the sort of risky work that the
                  Wuhan Institute of Virology specialized in — carried
                  out in the very labs where researchers fell sick in
                  fall 2019. <strong>If the Wuhan institute were found
                    to be the source of covid, it could threaten the
                    credibility and funding of virology labs such as
                    Koopmans’s. </strong></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> is among the other
                publications also <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-are-the-covid-investigators-11613401955"
                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">calling out
                  Koopmans’ inclusion as a WHO investigator</a>, given
                her obvious conflicts of interests:</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p><em>If an investigation finds it likely that the
                    Covid-19 pandemic was caused by gain-of-function
                    research, that would have repercussions for labs
                    around the world, including at Erasmus MC,” the WSJ
                    editorial board wrote. Erasmus MC is Erasmus
                    University Medical Center—which, again, is Koopmans’
                    animal lab.</em></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p>In other words: Her funding, including <b>the millions
                  of U.S. taxpayer dollars the NIH has been throwing her
                  way</b>, is at risk if it’s found that these
                career-making animal experiments caused the COVID-19
                pandemic.</p>
              <p><strong>And yet she’s the one charged with doing the
                  investigation into COVID’s origins, along with <em>this</em>
                  guy!?👇🏼</strong></p>
              <blockquote>
                <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The lab-leak hypothesis is
                  becoming impossible to ignore. Peter Daszak–closely
                  tied to the labs doing Gain of Function work on Corona
                  viruses–is now a WHO inspector on the team
                  investigating COVID origins in China.</p>
                <p>Newly surfaced video Dec. 9, ’19<a
                    href="https://t.co/cXd6zc8pxA">https://t.co/cXd6zc8pxA</a></p>
                <p>— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) <a
href="https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1351081199486328833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
                    18, 2021</a></p>
              </blockquote>
              <p><em><strong>What’s that again about foxes and
                    henhouses?</strong></em></p>
              <p><strong><a
href="https://act.whitecoatwaste.org/page/26718/petition/1?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=WuhanLoophole&utm_content=&ea.tracking.id=blog&en_og_source=blog&_ga=2.91313050.149967385.1613485096-1793163547.1587495057"
                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Please
                    help by signing our petition, telling the government
                    to STOP shipping your tax dollars to the Wuhan
                    Institute of Virology for wasteful, cruel, and
                    dangerous animal experiments</a>!</strong></p>
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