From the March 14, 2020, OAN program Exposing China's Coronavirus: The Fears, The Lies and The Unknown

CHANEL RION (OAN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT): [Georgetown adjunct infectious diseases professor Daniel] Lucey says China must have known early on the epidemic did not originate in the Wuhan seafood market, so where did it originate? We do not yet know, but there are some interesting clues right here in the U.S. 

In 2014, the U.S. government announced it would stop federal funding for a dangerous and controversial scientific practice called "gain of function experimentation." Gain of function technology in the study of viruses involves experiments where a virus is genetically altered in the lab in order to make it more contagious or deadly or both. In recent studies, gain of function technology have been used to render bird flu, SARS and MURS more contagious and transmissible to humans. Critics say as useful as this kind of scientific study may be to developing vaccines and advancing science the risk is that any lab in the world's tinkering with this kind of technology may, through human error, accidentally unleash one of these modified animal viruses and cause a worldwide pandemic.

Case in point: a U.S. moratorium in 2014 was imposed following accidents at two government labs, one handling avian flu, the other handling anthrax. Three years, later the federal funding moratorium was lifted. 

Now we go back to COVID-19. Scientists say it comes from bats but some are questioning the nature of the virus noting some usual and unnatural compositions of the virus. Is something amiss? 

Greg Rubini, a citizen investigator and a monitored source amongst a certain set in the D.C. intelligence community, raises intriguing connections linking the Wuhan coronavirus to a biosafety level-three lab in North Carolina.

In December 2015, the national library of medicine published a study by fifteen virologists and medical experts. The article warns: "SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose a threat for human emergence." Turns out the scientists in the study have studied coronaviruses for collective decades. This particular medical article elaborates how a team of scientists in studying how SARS and MURS were transmitting amongst humans took a strain of coronavirus from the Chinese horseshoe bat and modified it using gain of function technology. They then injected this strain of coronavirus into the spinal cords of mice. The article is a fascinating exploration of what happens.

In the process of warning the medical community of the lurking dangers of coronavirus in bats, the study appears to have taken the virus an amplified its contagion ability to better understand and prepare for a future outbreak. A useful exercise if the virus remained safely contained in this biosafety lab in North Carolina. Here's where it gets interesting: Two Chinese virologists took part in this 2015 study. Doctor [indiscernible] is a widely-respected virologist credited with discovering in 2005 how the SARS virus came from bats. The second virologist, Dr. [indiscernible], is also a published virologist. Their home base: Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China.

Both Wuhan scientists collaborated with this level-three biosafety lab in North Carolina, specifically on the gain of function experiment using coronaviruses from bats and altering the virus's ability to infect mice. 

The novel coronavirus so happened to emanate out of Wuhan. Is this just a causation-correlation fallacy? Is there absolutely zero connection between the coronavirus these scientists were experimenting with and the coronavirus that ostensibly broke out ten miles away in Wuhan?