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The article linked in the tweet references the following article from ANI: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/biological-terrorism-china-engineered-covid-19-bioweapon-to-purposely-infect-people-reveals-wuhan-researcher20230628101427/ The researcher, Chao Shao, who claims COVID-19 was bioweapon is confirmed to have worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: http://www.whiov.cas.cn/sourcedb_whiov_cas/yw/rck/202007/t20200702_5615357.html There are other sources that claim the opposite of Chao Shao: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2112-intelligence-community-statement-on-origins-of-covid-19 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214427119
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