A virus similar to the Chinese Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was engineered at UNC around 2015 and researcher #8, listed in the study - is listed as one “Zheng-li Shi” attached to*the*“Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,*Wuhan, China.”
I'm not certain of the validity of the following linked article, however, it makes sense and sounds as if this may be a case of research gone wrong......
Another Chinese virologist, Xing-Yi Ge, appears as an author on the 2016 UNC paper and is also attached to the lab in Wuhan. Previously in 2013, he’d*successfully isolated a SARS-like coronavirus from bats which targets the ACE2 receptor, just like our present virus, the Wuhan Coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
Link below:
https://harvardtothebighouse.com/202...vZS8GJlKzyZ4xA