Backed By Steve Bannon, Virologists Make Batty Claim COVID-19 Is A Global Conspiracy

Backed By Steve Bannon, Virologists Make Batty Claim COVID-19 Is A Global Conspiracy

Chinese virologists linked to former Trump strategist Steve Bannon released another paper Thursday on COVID-19.

According to Business Insider, the group claims the novel coronavirus is 'an unrestricted bioweapon.'

One of the authors, Li-Meng Yan, told Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson that the virus was 'intentionally' released by the Chinese government.

The authors accuse scientists of depositing fake coronavirus sequences in GenBank, a genetic sequence database run by the National Institutes of Health.

Experts quickly debunked the claim, calling it 'bizarre and unfounded.'

Most think the virus originated in bats before jumping to people.

In fact, one study found that it shared 96% of its genetic code with coronaviruses sampled from Chinese bat populations.