Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coronavirus</span></a> behind <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> was accidentally released from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>'s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported<br>According to report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BND</span></a> had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/healthcar</span><span class="invisible">e-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/</span></a></p>