What Really Happened in Wuhan

By: Sharri Markson

Narrated by: Danielle Carter

Walkley Award-winning journalist Sharri Markson is the investigations editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia.

The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring and silencing debate in the most extreme fashion. Yet it is undeniable that a secretive facility in Wuhan was immersed in genetically manipulating bat-coronaviruses in perilous experiments. And as soon as the news of an outbreak in Wuhan leaked, the Chinese military took control and gagged all laboratory insiders.

Part-thriller, part-expose, What Really Happened in Wuhan is a groundbreaking investigation from leading journalist Sharri Markson into the origins of COVID-19, the cover-ups, the conspiracies, and the classified research. It features never-before-seen primary documents exposing China's concealment of the virus, fresh interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan, and crucial eyewitness accounts that dismantle what we thought we knew about when the outbreak hit.

With unprecedented access to Washington insiders, Markson takes you inside the White House, with senior Trump lieutenants revealing firsthand accounts of fiery Oval Office clashes and new stories of compromised government advisors and censored scientists.

Bravely reported and chillingly laid out, Markson brings to light the stories of the pandemic from the people on the ground: the scientists and national security officials who raised uncomfortable truths and were labelled conspiracy theorists, until government agencies began to suspect they might have been right all along. These brave individuals persisted through bruising battles and played a crucial role in investigating the origins of COVID-19 to finally, in this book, bring us closer to the truth of what really happened in Wuhan.

©2021 Sharri Markson (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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China is a totalitarian state masquerading as a democracy so the data pointing to an accidental lab leak of Covid is no surprise. What is surprising is level of corruption of Dr Fauci , and how democratic scientific institutions acting on their own self interest suppressed the truth of Covid origin.

a must "read"

I could not stop once I started. I will read again! highly recommended to everyone!

You must

I’ve listened to this book three times in the past two weeks. I’m amazed at the amount of work it must have taken and grateful for the effort. As a journalist it has made my own reporting better. As a human it has lit a fire to know more and do more.
Thank you, Sharri.

eye opening !!!

wonderful narration. Full of facts and thought-provoking ideas. Great perspectives on all the playe r s involved.

Drop whatever it is that is taking up your time & focus & Read this book!

I have a library of over 2,000+ Audible recordings & this audiobook I rate, all things considered, in the top 2 or 3! It is essential reading for anyone who is following the CoViD saga… and who isn’t?

The author artfully tells a gripping narrative, naming names, places, events, dates, times and gathers them together to build precept upon precept, fact upon fact deeply involving the reader in a thoughtful, intriguing & compelling story that favors neither the blue team, nor the red team but explains & imparts so much useful information to the human team, desperate for solid enquiry and real answers in the ever evolving & mutating enigma that is CoViD19.

Thank you Sharri Markson

I usually don’t write reviews but this book was so much more than I could have ever expected. Clear and concise and compelling. I would like to see more of your work on anything. I truly don’t trust main stream media for all the reasons in this book. Again thank you for your time and dedication to your craft.

Thoroughly eye opening

Like "The Real Anthony Fauci" this book is excellently sourced and covered. The storytelling is excellent and the rigor is seemingly beyond reproach.

I highly recommend here and to every person who I think will benefit from listening - just about everyone who is capable reading and comprehending it.

WOW

This is the 1st review I have written out of all the books I’ve listened to. This book is amazing as far as all the info that’s given. What I liked the most was that it wasn’t slanted to one political side or the other. I hope word gets out about this book so more people look at the info the mainstream media doesn’t tell people.

Compelling Reporting, But Sloppy Editing

This book is about largely circumstantial evidence on the origins of COVID. The best definition of circumstantial evidence I know of comes from an old joke about a trial in the old west of a man accused of biting off another man's ear in a bar fight. At trial, the defendant's lawyer asks: "You didn't actually see my client bite his ear off, did you?" Answer: "No, but I saw him spit it out." As the joke shows, circumstantial evidence can be compelling.

Sharri Markson, an Australian journalist, does a really thorough job of showing that COVID probably originated in a laboratory leak in Wuhan. Unfortunately, Markson's evidence is about a worldwide disaster, and is no joke. It's truly thorough reporting. It is really disappointing that no one in the U.S. has, to my knowledge, done an equally thorough job.

Markson documents the obvious point that China shut down any inquiry into the origins of COVID. That is not surprising. Why was it not reported in the U.S. that the Wuhan lab mysteriously shut down in the Fall of 2019, around the time a leak would have occurred? Why was a gag order imposed in China? Why was contemporaneous illness in China not reported/ Why was it not reported that the Chinese army took over the lab shortly thereafter?

Markson also documents the far more surprising tale--although we all witnessed it--of how supposedly mainstream scientists pushed the narrative of a natural origin almost from the get go and tried to shut down any suggestion of a lab origin as a "conspiracy theory." Why would supposedly serious scientists and medical doctors--who would hopefully have an interest in the truth--push this? Because of their involvement in either funding or collaborating with the Wuhan lab. And that includes the U.S. government.

Why would a compliant press go along with this even though there was clear evidence of a possible alternative explanation? Because Donald Trump suggested that there might have been a lab leak, and, for that reason alone, it had to be false. Almost anyone can dislike Donald Trump--he certainly gives plenty of reasons--but to dismiss a lab leak as a possibility on this flimsy basis is simply embarrassing. Donald Trump seems to send U.S. intelligence agencies into apoplexy. First, they swallow the Russia collusion narrative hook, line and sinker, and they they fail to clearly assess the origins of COVID, even suppressing efforts inside to find the truth. Of course, the press also fell for the "St. Fauci" narrative.

The most distressing thing about this book other than worldwide failure to insist on a proper investigation of the origins of COVID is the complete and utter failure of U.S. intelligence agencies. They have been manipulated by Russia, and now by China. Markson demonstrates the latter clearly.

Does anyone in the U.S. government come out of this looking good? Aside from a few lower level deputies who courageously kept digging for the truth, Mike Pompeo. Read the book and judge for yourself.

If I have a criticism of this book, it is the lack of tight editing. The book jumps around and is repetitive. It could be twenty percent shorter and even more compelling. It feels like it was rushed to publication--not surprising I guess--but a more streamlined narrative following the timeline would have been better.

Is the case for a lab leak air tight? Maybe not, but it seems the most likely explanation, and the real "conspiracy theory" was the effort of certain scientists and governmental personnel to shut it down. Their behavior bordered on disgraceful.

Stunning, Refreshing, Honest, Frightening

I recommend this read to all who are open to understanding and thirsty for truth about Covid 19 origins.