We've been tracking since just days after the first coronavirus case in the United States

in late January of 2020.

We've been tracking this story from thousands of internal emails showing how the scientific

community manufactured the conversation away from lab origins.

We had evidence at that time early January that this thing may have even came from a lab.

And so our reporting on this has been where did it come from?

Who knew what and when did they know it?

And some more information has now dropped.

This is some breaking news this week.

There's been a lot of chatter.

This past weekend, the Times reported from the U.S. State Department officials.

This was the headline what really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before COVID erupted.

So in this article, they're saying that in 2016, Chinese researchers discovered a new type

of coronavirus and a mind shaft in Unam Province.

And some of the people there had died with symptoms similar to SARS.

So what they did, again, this is going to be a big problem.

According to investigators, U.S. State Department investigators, not named.

So these are just sources at this point.

But they're saying that that virus there was recognized as the earliest member of this

COVID-19 before the pandemic.

So that was taken to the Wuhan Institute of Virology at that point.

And they're saying that the paper trail starts to go dark at that point.

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