Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a virologist from Hong Kong who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, told Fox News in an exclusive interview in July 2020 about the early research she says she conducted into COVID-19, and why she believes that research was withheld from the world.
Yan, who says she was one of the first scientists in the world to study the novel coronavirus, was allegedly asked by her supervisor at the University/WHO reference lab, Dr. Leo Poon, in 2019 to look into the odd cluster of SARS-like cases coming out of mainland China at the end of December 2019.
Yan told Fox News that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did. She says her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, also ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could have saved lives.
In a later interview with Tucker Carlson in September 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a top virologist and whistleblower, said the Chinese government intentionally manufactured and released the COVID-19 virus that led to mass shutdowns and deaths across the world. Tucker Carlson specifically asked Dr. Li-Meng Yan whether she believed the Chinese Communist Party released the virus “on purpose.” “Yes, of course, it’s intentionally,” she responded on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Yan said more evidence would be released but pointed to her own high-ranking position at a World Health Organization reference lab as a reason to trust her allegation.
“I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world, in the University of Hong Kong. And the thing is I get deeply into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak. I had my intelligence because I also get my own unit network in China, involved [in] the hospital … also I work with the top corona[virus] virologist in the world,” she said.
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