记者:Do you have any evidence that the virus began in a Chinese lab and was maybe released accidentally?
(“你是否有任何证据指向病毒源于中国的实验室,可能是意外漏露的?”)
Milley将军:There’s a lot of rumor and speculation in a wide variety of media, blog sites, etc. It should be no surprise to you that we’ve taken a keen interest in that and we’ve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. And I would just say at this point, it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. But we don’t know for certain.
Nice to get your note and I hope everything is well with you and your wife.
Regarding your questions on Wuhan BSL-level 4 lab, I have to say that they are managing very well. No graduate students or any personnel associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology were infected, that is an amazing record for a city initiated the pandemic. They made great discoveries this time: identifying the virus, receptor ACE2, and the neutralized antibody. This time the Chinese scientists are doing a much better job than their performances during the SARS outbreak, but the government was horrible in the initial stage of controlling the virus spread. Please find the source of research done by Scripps scientists published at Nature Medicine showing that the virus was not lab construct or man-made whatsoever. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
美国Scripps 研究所等单位的科学家终于在Nature Medicine发表文章还了石正丽一个清白,当时我所极力反对的对她铺天盖地的阴谋论,比现在还盛,十分可恶。最关键的是这句话:“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” (“我们的分析清楚地说明新冠病毒不是实验室构建的或者人为操作出来的病毒”)