以下來自Michael Shellengerge's twitter, translated by ChatGPT.

After years of official claims to the contrary, strong new evidence suggests the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a Chinese lab. According to multiple sources, the researchers who led gain-of-function research, which increases infectiousness, were the first to be infected.

多年來，官方一直聲稱相反，但有強有力的新證據表明，被稱為SARS-CoV-2的病毒是從中國的實驗室泄漏出來的。根據多個消息來源，領導增強傳染性的功能性研究的研究人員是最早被感染的人.

According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, “patients zero,” included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses. More than three years after the pandemic’s outbreak, many around the world had given up on learning the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the highly infectious respiratory virus that has killed millions, and the response to which shut down businesses and schools, upended societies, and caused enormous collateral damage. Public officials in the U.S. and other countries have repeatedly suggested that uncovering the pandemic’s origin may not be possible. “We may never know,” said Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who oversaw pandemic response for two administrations. Now, answers increasingly look within reach. Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus. 

根據《公共與騙局》（Public and Racket）進行的一項長期調查，多位美國政府官員的採訪表明，被病毒感染的首批人員，“零號病人”，包括胡本（Ben Hu），一位領導武漢病毒研究所（WIV）針對類似於SARS的冠狀病毒進行“功能增強”的研究，該研究可以增加病毒的傳染性的研究人員。大流行病爆發三年多後，世界各地的許多人已經放棄了了解SARS-CoV-2的起源的努力。SARS-CoV-2是一種高度傳染的呼吸道病毒，已經導致數百萬人死亡，對此進行的反應關閉了企業和學校，顛覆了社會，並造成了巨大的附帶損害。美國和其他國家的公共官員多次表示，可能無法揭示大流行的起源。曾負責兩個政府的全國過敏與傳染病研究所的前所長安東尼·福奇（Anthony Fauci）說：“我們可能永遠不會知道。”現在，答案似乎越來越近在眼前。美國政府內部消息人士表示，最早感染SARS-CoV-2的三個人是胡本、余平和朱岩。他們都是被懷疑泄漏大流行病毒的武漢實驗室的成員。

As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it. When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%” “Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli,” said Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Shi is known as “the bat woman of China,” and led the gain-of-function research at the WIV. “He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanized mice. If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.” Hu and Yu researched the novel lineage of SARS-like viruses from which SARS-CoV-2 hails, and in 2019 coauthored a paper with Shi Zhengli that described SARS-like lineages they had studied over the years. 

因此，我們不僅知道在2019年11月有武漢病毒研究所的科學家患上類似COVID-19的疾病，而且他們正在研究與SARS-CoV-2最密切相關的病毒，並插入了獨特的功能增強特徵。當問及消息來源對於這三位武漢病毒研究所科學家在2019年秋季出現與COVID-19一致症狀的身份有多麼確定時，我們被告知：“百分之百”。麻省理工學院和哈佛大學Broad研究所的分子生物學家阿麗娜·陳（Alina Chan）表示：“胡本基本上是下一個施正麗。”施正麗被稱為“中國的蝙蝠女人”，並在武漢病毒研究所領導功能增強研究。“他是她的得意弟子。他一直在製造嵌合型類SARS病毒，並在人源化小鼠中進行測試。如果我必須猜測誰會從事這種冒險的病毒研究並最有可能意外感染，那就是他。”胡本和余平研究了SARS-CoV-2起源的新穎類SARS病毒譜系，並在2019年與施正麗共同撰寫了一篇描述多年來他們研究過的類SARS譜系的論文。

Jamie Metzl, a former member of the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing who raised questions starting in early 2020 about a possible research-related pandemic origin, said, “It’s a game changer if it can be proven that Hu got sick with COVID-19 before anyone else. That would be the ‘smoking gun.’ Hu was the lead hands-on researcher in Shi’s lab.” Sources tell Public and Racket that other news organizations are chasing aspects of this story. 

傑米·梅茲爾（Jamie Metzl）是世界衛生組織人類基因組編輯專家諮詢委員會的前成員，他從2020年初開始就提出了關於可能與研究相關的大流行起源的問題。他說：“如果可以證明胡本在其他人之前感染了COVID-19，那將是一個改變局面的關鍵證據。那將是‘罪證’。胡本是施正麗實驗室的主要實驗研究人員。”消息人士告訴《公共與騙局》，其他新聞機構也在追蹤這個故事的各個方面。

On Saturday, The Times of London quoted an anonymous U.S. State Department investigator saying, “It has become increasingly clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was involved in the creation, promulgation, and cover-up of the Covid-19 pandemic.” Public and Racket are the first publications to reveal the names of the three sick WIV workers and place them directly in the lab that collected and experimented with SARS-like viruses poised for human emergence. 

《倫敦時報》在周六援引了一名匿名的美國國務院調查員的話：“顯然武漢病毒研究所參與了新冠疫情的產生、傳播和掩蓋。”《公共與騙局》是首家透露三名患病武漢病毒研究所工作人員姓名並將他們直接與收集和進行類SARS病毒實驗的實驗室聯繫在一起的出版物。

Next week, the Directorate of National Intelligence is expected to release previously classified material, which may include the names of the three WIV scientists who were the likely among the first to be sickened by SARS-CoV-2. 

下星期，情報部門可望公開機密文件，這份文件油可能包括武漢病毒研究所三位科研人員的名字，他們大概是最早被新冠病毒感染的人。

A bill signed by President Biden earlier this year specifically called for the release of the names and roles of the sick researchers at the WIV, their symptoms and date of symptom onset, and whether these researchers had been involved with or exposed to coronavirus research. On Dec. 29, 2017, two years before the pandemic began, Chinese state-run television aired a video that includes a scene of Ben Hu watching a lab worker handle specimens. Neither are wearing protective gear. The same video shows WIV scientists hunting for bat viruses with little protective gear. “If they were worried about being infected in the field, they would need full body suits with no gaps” to be safe, said Chan. “That’s the only way.” The WIV research with live SARS-like viruses was performed at too low of a safety level, “BSL-2,” explains Chan, “When we now know that the pandemic virus is even capable of escaping from a BSL-3 lab and infecting fully vaccinated young lab workers.” While scientists justify such research as necessary for developing vaccines, President Barack Obama banned federal funding for gain-of-function research of concern in 2014, because experts had come to the consensus that it was too dangerous. However, the National Institute of Health and NIAID headed by Francis Collins and Fauci, and a major U.S. government grantee, EcoHealth Alliance, deemed their work on SARS-like viruses as not falling under the gain-of-function research of concern definitions and funded this project in China and Southeast Asia.

今年早些時候，美國總統拜登簽署的一項法案明確要求公開武漢病毒研究所患病研究人員的姓名和職責、他們的症狀和症狀發作日期，以及這些研究人員是否參與或接觸過冠狀病毒研究。在大流行開始前的2017年12月29日，中國國有電視台播放了一段視頻，其中包括胡本觀看實驗室工作人員處理標本的場景。兩人都沒有戴防護裝備。同一視頻還顯示武漢病毒研究所的科學家們在很少的防護裝備下搜尋蝙蝠病毒。“如果他們擔心在野外被感染，他們需要穿着無縫隙的全身防護服才能安全，”陳說。“這是唯一的辦法。”武漢病毒研究所使用活體類SARS病毒進行的研究在安全級別上過低，“BSL-2”，陳解釋道，“現在我們知道，大流行病毒甚至能夠從BSL-3實驗室逃脫，並感染完全接種疫苗的年輕實驗室工作人員。”儘管科學家們認為這樣的研究對於疫苗的開發是必要的，但巴拉克·奧巴馬總統在2014年禁止聯邦資助涉及功能增強研究，因為專家們達成共識認為這樣的研究過於危險。然而，由弗朗西斯·科林斯和福奇領導的美國國立衛生研究院（NIH）和國家過敏與傳染病研究所（NIAID），以及美國政府主要資助方EcoHealth聯盟認為他們在類SARS病毒上的研究不屬於引起關注的功能增強研究，並在中國和東南亞資助了這個項目。

In March 2018, the WIV, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the University of North Carolina applied for a $14 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency DARPA to engineer “furin cleavage sites” into SARS-like coronaviruses to study how this affected their ability to grow and cause disease.

2018年3月，武漢病毒研究所（WIV）、EcoHealth聯盟和北卡羅來納大學申請了一項價值1400萬美元的撥款，從美國國防高級研究計劃局（DARPA）獲得，用於將“酶切位點”引入類SARS冠狀病毒，以研究這對它們的生長和致病能力有何影響。

Scientists say the key piece of the COVID-19 virus, which made it so transmissible compared to its closest relatives, was its unique furin cleavage site.

科學家們表示，COVID-19病毒與其最近的親屬相比具有高傳播性的關鍵部分是其獨特的酶切位點。DARPA rejected the grant, but it now appears the WIV went forward with the research anyway. The Times of London reported that US collaborators of the WIV had come forward and said the Wuhan scientists had put furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses in 2019.

儘管美國國防高級研究計劃局（DARPA）拒絕了這項撥款，但現在似乎武漢病毒研究所還是繼續進行了這項研究。《倫敦時報》報道稱，與武漢病毒研究所合作的美國研究人員站出來表示，武漢科學家在2019年將酶切位點引入了類SARS病毒。

Hu co-authored multiple papers on coronavirus research, including a 2017 paper on chimeric bat coronaviruses with Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which was funded in part by the NIH and the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT Program. Data privately shared with the NIH revealed that these chimeric SARS-like viruses grew far more quickly and caused more severe disease in humanized mice in the lab.

胡本與其他研究人員合作撰寫了多篇關於冠狀病毒的研究論文，其中包括與EcoHealth聯盟負責人彼得·達扎克（Peter Daszak）合作撰寫的一篇2017年關於嵌合型蝙蝠冠狀病毒的論文，該研究部分由美國國立衛生研究院（NIH）和美國國際開發署（USAID）新興大流行威脅PREDICT計劃資助。與NIH私下分享的數據顯示，在實驗室中，這些嵌合型類SARS病毒在人源化小鼠中生長速度更快，並引起更嚴重的疾病。

When the WIV put out their first paper about the pandemic virus, they failed to point out the novel furin cleavage site despite having had plans to and allegedly putting such gain-of-function features into SARS-like viruses in their lab. “It’s as if these scientists proposed putting horns on horses, but when a unicorn shows up in their city a year later they write a paper describing every part of it except its horn,” said Chan.

當武漢病毒研究所發布他們關於大流行病毒的第一篇論文時，他們沒有提到這個新穎的酶切位點，儘管他們之前計划過並據稱在實驗室中將這樣的功能增強特徵引入了類SARS病毒。陳說：“就好像這些科學家提議給馬加上角，但一年後當一隻獨角獸出現在他們的城市時，他們寫了一篇描述獨角獸每個部分但忽略了它的角的論文。”

Public sent emails and made phone calls to the NIH, WIV, EcoHealth Alliance, Daszak, Hu, and Shi over the last several days and did not hear back.

《公共與騙局》在過去幾天向美國國立衛生研究院（NIH）、武漢病毒研究所（WIV）、EcoHealth聯盟、達扎克、胡本和施正麗發送了電子郵件並進行了電話聯繫，但未收到回復。It is unclear who in the U.S. government had access to the intelligence about the sick WIV workers, how long they had it, and why it was not shared with the public. “You would expect the country of origin to be defensive,” said Chan, “but you wouldn’t expect a country receiving the virus to be withholding key evidence.”

目前尚不清楚美國政府中哪些人能夠獲得有關武漢病毒研究所患病工作人員的情報，他們持有情報的時間有多長，以及為什麼沒有與公眾分享。陳說：“你會期望源頭國採取防禦態度，但你不會期望接收病毒的國家隱瞞關鍵證據。”

On January 15, 2021, five days before President Joe Biden took office, the U.S. State Department published a fact sheet that pointed to the likelihood of a lab leak as the cause of a pandemic.

在2021年1月15日，也就是喬·拜登總統就職前五天，美國國務院發布了一份文件，指出實驗室泄漏很有可能是大流行病的起因。

Already, the State Department in 2021 suspected that the WIV had lied to the public. “The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. That raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was ‘zero infection’ among the WIV’s staff and students by SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.”

在2021年，美國國務院已經懷疑武漢病毒研究所向公眾撒謊。《美國政府有理由相信，2019年秋季，在首次確定爆發病例之前，武漢病毒研究所內的幾名研究人員出現了與COVID-19和常見季節性疾病一致的症狀。這引發了對武漢病毒研究所高級研究員施正麗公開宣稱武漢病毒研究所的工作人員和學生對SARS-CoV-2或類SARS病毒“零感染”的可信度的質疑。》

In February of this year, the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a reporter that “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.” The Times of London reported that State Department investigators “found evidence that researchers working on these experiments were taken to hospital with Covid-like symptoms in November 2019.” As previously reported in Vanity Fair, some of the information State Department investigators found in 2021 was “sitting in the U.S. intelligence community’s own files, unanalyzed.” “Ever since I put out my [May 2020] preprint [research paper] saying that an accidental lab origin was possible, I was criticized as a conspiracy theorist,” said Chan. “If this info had been made public in May of 2020, I doubt that many in the scientific community and the media would have spent the last three years raving about a raccoon dog or pangolin in a wet market.” Public is a reader-supported publication. To support our investigative reporting, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Identifying the first COVID-19 case as a Wuhan Institute scientist overseeing gain-of-function research has significant ramifications for investigators in search of a motive for a cover-up. Politicians, scientists, journalists, and amateur researchers for years now have zeroed in on the possibility that Covid-19 may have resulted from U.S.-funded gain-of-function research conducted in China. Publications ranging from the Washington Post to the Intercept to the Wall Street Journal have uncovered suggestive details, including the fact that the NIH awarded funding for at least 18 gain-of-function research projects between 2012 and 2020, and NIH scientists in 2016 expressing concern about supposedly paused hybrid “chimera” virus research. Had the information come out earlier, governments may have responded to the pandemic differently. After Public shared the information with Chan, she said, “I feel vindicated, but I’m frustrated. If you knew that this was likely a lab-enhanced pathogen, there are so many things you could have done differently. This whole pandemic could have been reshaped.” Said Metzl, “Had US government officials including Dr. Fauci stated from day one that a COVID-19 research-related origin was a very real possibility, and made clear that we had little idea what viruses were being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, what work was being done there, and who was doing that work, our national and global conversations would have been dramatically different. The time has come for a full accounting.”

在今年的二月，聯邦調查局局長克里斯托弗·雷告訴一名記者：“聯邦調查局長期以來一直認為，大流行病的起源很可能是武漢的一個潛在實驗室事故。”

《倫敦時報》報道稱，國務院的調查人員“發現證據表明，參與這些實驗的研究人員在2019年11月出現了類似COVID的症狀，被送往醫院。” 正如《名利場》之前報道的那樣，國務院的調查人員在2021年發現的一些信息“存放在美國情報界的檔案中，尚未經過分析”。

陳表示：“自從我發布了（2020年5月）我的論文，提出實驗室意外起源的可能性，我就被批評為陰謀論者。” “如果這些信息在2020年5月公開，我懷疑科學界和媒體在過去三年中是否會一直談論濕市場中的浣熊狗或穿山甲。”

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將首例COVID-19病例確定為武漢病毒研究所的一位主管進行功能增強研究對於尋找掩蓋動機的調查人員具有重大影響。

多年來，政治家、科學家、記者和業餘研究人員一直將COVID-19可能是由美國資助的中國功能增強研究導致的可能性作為重點。

從《華盛頓郵報》到《Intercept》再到《華爾街日報》，各種出版物已經揭示了一些暗示性的細節，包括美國國立衛生研究院在2012年至2020年間資助了至少18個功能增強研究項目的事實，以及2016年NIH科學家對所謂暫停的雜交“嵌合”病毒研究表示關注。

如果這些信息早些時候披露出來，各國政府可能會對大流行病作出不同的反應。《公共與騙局》將信息與陳分享後，她說：“我感到得到了證實，但我感到沮喪。如果你知道這可能是一個經過實驗室增強的病原體，你本可以採取很多不同的措施。這整個大流行病本可以被重塑。”