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U.S. researchers secretly met with a Chinese scientist who ran experiments at the laboratory suspected of triggering COVID, newly obtained documents reveal. The goal of the meeting was for the scientist to receive backing for a project that would go on to supercharge coronaviruses—shortly before the devastating outbreak started in her native Wuhan.

Nicknamed “Batwoman,” Shi Zhengli met with scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in 2017. Analysts say this revelation will bolster fears that the West knowingly collaborated in experiments that may have produced one of the world’s deadliest pandemics.

In February 2023, the U.S. Energy Department concluded that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused COVID, though U.S. spy agencies remain divided over the origins of the virus.