Gravitas: Purchases of PCR tests in Hubei rose sharply from July-October 2019

Source: Gravitas: Purchases of PCR tests in Hubei rose sharply from July-October 2019
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Published: October 5, 2021 | Archived: July 18, 2026

Video: Gravitas: Purchases of PCR tests in Hubei rose sharply from July-October 2019
Channel: WION
Published: October 5, 2021
Duration: 6:10
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Category: News & Politics
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In an exclusive interview to Palki Sharma, David Robinson- the Co-Founder of Internet 2.O revealed how purchases of PCR tests in Hubei shot up after May 2019- well before China officially reported its first cases.

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0:00 now this is such a major revelation perhaps one of the most important findings in the gohan virus saga and we couldn’t have done this story without repeatedly checking this data and without speaking to the man who who led this research effort his name is david robinson he’s a retired australian army intelligence officer he co-founded internet 2.0 it’s the company that published these findings david robinson was the lead researcher on this project that shows that the wuhan virus outbreak may have begun in china as early as may 2019 or at the very least china had begun preparing for an outbreak in may 2019 and tonight david robinson joins us from canberra in australia mr robinson welcome to beyond thank you so much for having me your study as we’ve been saying is extremely significant your findings are very important and this research focuses on how the procurement of pcr tests and who base shot up in 2019 now for almost two years the world has been trying to answer the question of the origin of the virus

1:02 without much success how does your study how do your findings impact that quest well it’s very hard for us to determine based off the current commentary and the data and all the investigations exactly when coronavirus started because we don’t have a patient zero and we don’t have uh key case data so we’ve tried to use predictive statistics and third-party data in order to identify potentially when coronavirus might have started emerging we’re looking at people buying pcr equipment because they’re potentially dealing with an unknown virus an emerging epidemic in wuhan and they’re trying to identify cases what the virus is and react in a normal way that any health system would react around the world the key points are in 2018 most of the pcr equipment was normal hospital and research use and in 2019 it shifted dramatically to increase and those drivers those institutions that drove the growth were from the centers for disease control in hubei province significant growth from them

2:10 and the wuhan university of science and technology and key to this university specifically is they have 35 teaching bases and practices in the field and this is not based off the websites of the other universities this is not the same level as the other universities so they’ve got teaching practices in 22 general hospitals and 10 centers for disease control and prevention so these are the normal institutions that would be expected to deal with an emerging virus an unknown virus and that’s where we’re seeing the significant increase of purchasing of that equipment from in 2019 now the most important revelation is the fact that the procurements began in may 2019.

2:55 what are the significant findings from the papers that you have on earth and what more can you tell me about this so the procurement documents are all open source they’re all available on the internet and they’re all chinese government uh assets or organizations purchasing equipment in general this is all openly available internet on the data on the internet the the significant increase really occurs in a window between july and october and that’s the bracket but there was a significant purchase made by one of the cdc uh units in hubei province wuhan in may and also by the people liberation zoning hospital on that was announced on the 27th of may for one pcr laboratory piece of equipment i’m sure there’ll be critics of your report and this is one of the arguments that they could make that pcr equipment can be used for other purposes too pcr equipment has been around for very many years how do you link these purchases to

3:55 the wuhan virus outbreak well there’s there are significant reasons why to use pcr equipment but the primary purpose is to amplify dna in order to identify viruses so if you want to identify mers or sars or swine flu for example in both human and agricultural purposes you’re going to use pcr testing we looked at the data and saw there was a significant correlation in a significant increase in 2020 purchasing and a significant increase in 29 in wu and province so yes pcr equipment is used generally but there is a direct link between the significant increase in pcr equipment and potentially responding to an unknown virus or coca-19 now the chinese foreign ministry we know has already dismissed your study how do you respond to that well we’ve only used chinese data we haven’t used anyone else’s data we’ve used their information in order to build our data set in our study and secondly you know more transparency builds trust and there’s been a lot of commentary around the world about the lack of transparency

5:15 the lack of ability to access data the lack of ability to identify a patient zero and the lack of cooperation in all those international investigations conducted so we would love to see what the patient zero is we would love to identify the zoonotic origin of the virus but i don’t think we’re actually going to be able to find that just due to the lack of data being presented by china to the world so all we can do now is use predictive statistics and third-party data points in order to box around the potential answer to all the public’s questions which is a global public realm david robinson thank you very much for joining us here on beyond thank you so much thank you appreciate it ryan is now available in your country download the app now and get all the news on the move