Wuhan Institute Of Virology Collaborators Call Out Dangerous Research — Five Years Late
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Emily Kopp
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March 06, 2025 5:51 PM ET
Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses unacceptable risks — five years after the worst pandemic in a century emerged in Wuhan.
A recent opinion piece from the New York Times criticizes experiments described in the high-quality scientific journal Cell on a novel MERS coronavirus called HKU5-CoV-2. The novel virus has never spilled over into humans but the Wuhan lab helped demonstrate its ability to infect human cells. The work was conducted at a low biosafety level (BSL) without standardized safeguards against airborne viruses, according to the New York Times piece.
The article’s appeal for greater caution by scientific journals and funders publishing and supporting this work earned plaudits from some concerned about global biosafety. But the byline raised eyebrows.
The authors are Columbia University Professor of Epidemiology W. Ian Lipkin and University of North Carolina (UNC) Professor of Epidemiology, Microbiology and Immunology Ralph Baric — both of whom were involved with the Wuhan lab and the push to dampen speculation the lab could have contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The two worked with either the Wuhan lab or one of its closest U.S. collaborators, EcoHealth Alliance — both of which are now debarred from federal funding for not sharing documents related to their coronavirus research. EcoHealth and its subcontracted lab have been deemed ineligible from federal grants for years after a congressional investigation found they were unable to produce the relevant genomic data and lab notebooks.
Despite their critique of the Wuhan lab, critics have said the pair had behind-the-scenes roles in high-impact papers in February and March 2020 that suppressed discussion of the theory that the pandemic emerged from a lab.
Evidence from congressional investigations suggests both men served as scientific advisors to the U.S. intelligence community and may have been in discussion with intelligence agencies around the same time they worked to downplay discussion of the Wuhan lab in public.
By May 2020, Baric called for transparency surrounding the lax safety standards in Wuhan and its possible connection to the pandemic. While Baric is among the Americans with the best insight into the Wuhan lab’s pre-pandemic private research plans, UNC has blocked the release of certain documents through North Carolina public records law. Major revelations about the collaboration’s work on coronaviruses have come from a whistleblower leak and FOIA requests rather than directly from Baric. (RELATED: University Asks Judge To Block Release Of Documents Related To Dangerous Coronavirus Research)
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