CCP Virus Likely Came From Chinese Lab: Former State Department Contractor

This scanning electron microscope image, published on Feb. 13, 2020, shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as the CCP virus—the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Courtesy of NIAID-RML

The virus that causes COVID-19 probably didn’t originate in nature, according to a former State Department contractor.

“It came out of nowhere, and it was optimized for transmission between humans in a way that no bat-borne coronavirus ever had been. So what’s up? A pangolin gets mated with a bat gets mated with a furin cleavage site of a human being? How does that happen? It’s not probable,” David Asher, who worked for the department during the Trump administration, said on Fox News’ “The Story.”