EZRA LEVANT | MARCH 12, 2025 | NEWS ANALYSIS | 4 COMMENTS
According to German media reports, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory accident in Wuhan. The agency’s findings suggest negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), where risky research practices and violations of safety protocols may have contributed to the outbreak.
The BND’s assessment, disclosed years after the initial crisis, highlights evidence of unsafe experiments conducted under less stringent biosafety standards compared to similar facilities in other countries. Reports indicate that WIV researchers engaged in gain-of-function studies—experiments involving genetic modifications of viruses—to enhance their transmissibility or pathogenicity. Such work, critics argue, could have inadvertently led to the virus’s spread.
Ezra Levant, host of The Ezra Levant Show, criticized the delayed revelation, stating that the BND allegedly knew of these findings as early as 2020 but withheld them. “They knew the truth; they buried the truth; they said the lie,” he claimed. The material reportedly included internal documents and safety records from the WIV, which faced scrutiny for operating under BSL-2 protocols—a lower standard than the BSL-3 used in U.S. laboratories handling similar pathogens.
The discussion also touched on broader allegations of cover-ups, with Levant accusing authorities of suppressing early warnings about the lab-leak hypothesis. While U.S. intelligence officials and scientists have increasingly supported the theory, critics previously dismissed it as a conspiracy.
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