DISINFO: Evidence suggests the US may be plotting a new pandemic

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DISINFO: Evidence suggests the US may be plotting a new pandemic

SUMMARY

Evidence suggests the US may be plotting a new pandemic: a bill boosts US intelligence to deal with the next pandemic. Judging from increased activity in Pentagon bio labs around the world and new data on the Coronavirus, the US may be plotting another outbreak.

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Recurring disinformation narrative about the US and coronavirus.

The article insinuates that the US is involved in the spread of the pandemic as the world's coronavirus figures continue to increase. These claims are not supported by any evidence.

The overwhelming consensus among scientists and medical experts is that SARS-CoV-2 has all the characteristics of a naturally occurring virus. According to scientists, the molecular structure of the virus excludes the possibility that it was human-made.

As pointed out by prominent researchers, from 1949 until 1988, the Soviet Union conducted a nearly continuous campaign of false allegations of biological-weapon (BW) use by the United States, renewed after 1995 and persisting to the present day. The COVID-19 pandemic that started in early 2020 was incorporated in this narrative, with pro-Kremlin outlets falsely claiming that the US was somehow involved in the development and leak of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Read similar cases claiming that There is good reason to believe that biological weapons are developed in American laboratories, that US-controlled biolabs develop biological weapons under the guise of studying dangerous infections or that the US involved in the release of COVID-19

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