As we reported, a Department of Energy report said the theory that COVID leaked from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology is the “most likely” explanation for its emergence.

This is something that many have pointed to for a long time, but if you said it you could be accused of spreading conspiracy theories and booted off of social media. Infuriated Republicans are demanding answers and the House has launched an investigation into the origins.

As we noted, here’s what House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said on the Committee’s website about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its origins.

The relationship between the NIH, the WIV, and EcoHealth raises serious questions about use of taxpayer dollars for gain-of-function research and when U.S. health officials became aware of the WIV’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. The public health community—including the NIH—and the American people deserve the truth. The truth will enable American public health officials to prevent and minimize the effects of future global pandemics.

Now Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan has gone even further on Tucker Carlson’s show, saying that the DOE finding was important, but also that there was more to the story.

Chinese virologist Dr. Li Meng Yan, who was among the first people to say the COVID virus was released from a lab, weighs in after the US Energy Department concluded that it likely did. pic.twitter.com/UVZo9UfVfG

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Yan said:

“Of course, it was not an accident,” she responded.

“Maybe for people who don’t have this kind of biosafety lab three or four [years] experience on coronavirus, maybe it’s easy for them to accept the accident lab leak. However, I’m a scientist, working in [a] research lab using coronavirus. And I can tell you, based on the print protocol and also the other surveillance system, it would be impossible for the lab leak [to] accidentally happen in such [a] lab and cause the Wuhan outbreak and also the pandemic,” Yan said.

“So definitely now we just reached the first step. It was from China’s lab, and we need to pursue the truth of origin, and we need to keep going on.”

She went on to explain:

Yan said based on the evidence she has seen and the source she has spoken to, the virus was “intentionally brought out of this strict lab and released in the community.”

“However, I don’t think the outbreak in Wuhan was intentional. I would say it was because [the] CCP government and the military scientists underestimated the transmissibility,” she added. “That’s why finally it got out of control and the cost [was] a local outbreak. However, we should know that [the] CCP government intentionally let it go all over the world to kill millions of people all over the world later.”

As we reported at the time, China let flights from Wuhan travel all over the world, after already knowing what was going on. On January 14, 2020, the WHO was also carrying water for China, saying that the Chinese had found no clear evidence of human to human transmission, which was untrue.

Yan was a virologist at the Hong Kong School of Public Health and she began noticing the cases coming from the mainland indicating that there was human-to-human transmission. She told her supervisor on Jan. 16, 2020, right around the time Chinese officials were still trying to lie about it, and he warned her “to keep silent, and be careful,” “Don’t touch the red line,” he said. “We will get in trouble, and we’ll be disappeared.”