In an explosive revelation that could rewrite the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic, a military report recently uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon indicates that seven American troops may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in October 2019—months before China acknowledged the virus’s existence. The report, mandated by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and secretly withheld by the Biden administration for nearly two years, was uncovered and quietly made public in late March. It outlines that seven U.S. military service members fell ill with COVID-like symptoms after attending the World Military Games held in Wuhan in October 2019. This disclosure contradicts earlier public denials by both the Trump and Biden administrations, which consistently asserted there was no evidence of Americans contracting the virus at the games. Former Defense Department spokesman John Kirby had previously dismissed suggestions that military personnel became infected in Wuhan, asserting that the Pentagon had “no knowledge” of such cases. The location of the games? Wuhan, home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, infamous for its controversial gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses funded, in part, by U.S. taxpayers. Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright, a prominent voice supporting the theory that COVID-19 originated in this lab, said that the findings in the report bolster evidence pointing toward a lab leak. “It is an outrage that the Biden White House and congressional committees withheld this crucial information from the American public,” Ebright said. “This confirms what intelligence and scientific data have indicated—that COVID-19 was already circulating in Wuhan long before December 2019.” Military athletes from several U.S. allies, including Germany, France, Italy, and Luxembourg, also reported COVID-like symptoms during their stay in Wuhan, describing the city as eerily empty—a “ghost town,” according to the Daily Mail. Senator Joni Ernst echoed Ebright’s condemnation, criticizing the Biden administration for failing to release the report immediately upon its completion. “Taxpayers deserve the truth about the origins of COVID-19,” Ernst said. “If Americans visiting Wuhan in October 2019 were infected, theories placing the pandemic’s start in a wet market two months later are fundamentally flawed.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)