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Now BIDEN’S ex-Covid advisor admits pandemic may have been caused by a Wuhan lab leak – and warns there’s a 50% chance of another pandemic by 2050

  •  Dr Raj Panjabi veered away from Biden’s party line, speaking of a ‘lab accident’
  • Increasing pathogens & excess global travel may spark a new pandemic, he said
  • READ MORE:  US quietly shuts down $125million project to find novel viruses in Asia and Africa due to fears it could spark a pandemic

President Joe Biden‘s former Covid advisor has admitted the pandemic may have been borne out of a laboratory leak in Wuhan. 

Speaking at a New York City health conference this week, Dr Raj Panjabi, former Special Assistant to the President, described the lab leak theory as ‘plausible’ and called on Governments around the world to ‘do more to keep labs safe.’

Biden called former President Donald Trump ‘nakedly xenophobic’ in May 2020, for suggesting Covid was the result of Chinese experiments gone wrong.

But now the FBI, Department of Energy and many scientists and US government officials believe it is the most likely origin of the pandemic. 

However, the official line from Biden’s White House is that the origin of Covid remains uncertain — a view echoed by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said there is ‘no definitive answer’ to the question.  

President Joe Biden 's former Covid advisor has admitted the pandemic may have been borne out of a laboratory leak in Wuhan

President Joe Biden ‘s former Covid advisor has admitted the pandemic may have been borne out of a laboratory leak in Wuhan 

But ex-Covid adviser Dr Panjabi appeared to veer away from the party line this week saying: ‘It is plausible that Covid originated in a lab accident in Wuhan…we have got to do more to keep labs safe.’

He also issued a chilling prediction: There’s a 50/50 chance of another pandemic happening by 2050. 

‘The risk of a pandemic is only growing in the modern world,’ Dr Punjabi said in a speech at the Forbes Healthcare Summit 2023 earlier this week.

‘There is a 50 percent risk one will happen in the next 25 years. This is because of globalization, or what I call the three Ps.

‘These are: Pathogen spillover [when diseases jump from animals to humans]… planes [global travel], and poor public health systems that are shattered and lack investment.’ 

Dr Panjabi worked for the Biden administration from 2021 to late 2023 where he advised on their response to Covid and future pandemic threats, such as monkeypox

Dr Panjabi worked for the Biden administration from 2021 to late 2023 where he advised on their response to Covid and future pandemic threats, such as monkeypox

Dr Panjabi is a physician specializing in infectious disease and epidemiology. He has also been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.

Panjabi worked for the Biden administration from 2021 to late 2023, playing a key role in two public health crises: the Covid-19 pandemic and the monkeypox outbreak that began in the Spring of 2022. 

He also led the White House strategy for boosting Covid vaccine uptake in the US and abroad — a program that saw 1.1billion shots distributed to third-world countries. 

Safety practices in US scientific laboratories are gaining increasing attention from Government officials, in a bid to prevent future pandemics.

Congress is currently considering tighter regulation of labs, with the House Energy and Commerce Committee currently holding hearings on the subject.

Pictured: The Wuhan Institute of Virology, where crucial data was wiped by Chinese scientists

Pictured: The Wuhan Institute of Virology, where crucial data was wiped by Chinese scientists

In September, Republicans escalated their Covid origins investigation, demanding the Biden administration and other politicians comply with their requests — or face being subpoenaed. 

In a letter sent to HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra first obtained by DailyMail.com, the Republicans wrote they ‘expect full and timely compliance’ with their requests, which have gone unanswered since they launched the probe in February. 

And Dr Anthony Fauci has finally agreed to testify to Congress on his involvement in the public cover up of Covid’s origins. 

The onetime White House doctor will be grilled on his former department’s funding of dangerous experiments in Wuhan, as well as the stark difference between his public and private comments about the lab leak theory.

He is due to speak in front of the House in January, which will be the first time he has testified under oath since his infamous showdown in front of the Senate in July 2021.

Shi Zhengli - dubbed the 'Bat Lady' or 'Bat Woman' for her work on bat coronaviruses - works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Shi Zhengli – dubbed the ‘Bat Lady’ or ‘Bat Woman’ for her work on bat coronaviruses – works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

The lab leak theory of Covid was dismissed as a conspiracy in the early days of the pandemic by leading figures including Dr Fauci.

Dr Panjabi is just the latest high ranking official to give credence to the lab leak theory, after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former top health official Dr Robert Kadlec and former national security director John Ratcliffe all came out in support of it.

Speaking to Sky News last month, Dr Ratcliffe said: ‘It’s more than just a possibility, it’s certainly a probability and it’s probably a certainty.’

Dr Rober Kadlec, who initially worked with Dr Fauci to hush the lab leak theory, has suggested in a report that Covid likely escaped during the work of scientist Dr Zhou Yusen at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

He filed a patent for a Covid vaccine in February 2020, which suggested he had been working on it for months.

Countless reports have revealed lax practices at US labs – including a military research facility Fort Detrik, in Maryland.

The lab is accused of leaking Ebola and Anthrax into local water supplies in May 2018 after a tank holding wastewater from labs became over-pressurized and sprayed infectious waste for three hours.

There are also suggestions that pandemics have been caused by lab leaks before, including the 2004 and 2005 influenza outbreak.

Researchers said the strain that caused it bared a remarkable resemblance to one that had been spreading decades earlier.

Dr Martin Hirsch, a virologist in Massachusetts who previously worked in top-level virus research labs, told DailyMail.com: ‘It is extremely important that we maintain rigorous procedures for safety at BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs.

‘Scientists also should not be cavalier about what they work with and how they work with it.

‘I feel strongly that laboratories should be closely monitored. 

‘Their experiments should not be done unless there is a very good reason and they are done under very rigorous containment procedures.’


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