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U.S.-FUNDED SCIENTIST AMONG THREE CHINESE RESEARCHERS WHO FELL ILL AMID EARLY
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IDENTIFICATION OF THREE WHO WORKED AT WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY FUELS
SUSPICION FOR PROPONENTS OF LAB-LEAK THEORY

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The Government Accountability Office noted last week that some coronavirus
research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, was funded by U.S.
agencies. Photo: Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

A prominent scientist who worked on coronavirus projects funded by the U.S.
government is one of three Chinese researchers who became sick with an
unspecified illness during the initial outbreak of Covid-19, according to
current and former U.S. officials.

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