A damning new report from a long-buried Department of Defense report has just confirmed what The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for years: American service members who attended the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan, China, exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms as early as October 2019—months before the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization officially acknowledged the outbreak of the deadly virus.
According to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the report—completed in December 2022—was mandated by Congress to be publicly released by mid-2022 but was withheld by the Biden administration until it was quietly posted on a Defense Department website in late March 2025.
The report, mandated by Section 1068 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2022, details the participation of 263 American athletes and staff, including 219 military personnel, in the Wuhan games held from October 18-27, 2019.
Out of this group, seven brave service members came down with mysterious symptoms eerily consistent with COVID-19 between October 18, 2019, and January 21, 2020.
While the DoD timidly notes that these symptoms “could have been caused by other respiratory infections,” the timing and location scream what conservatives have long suspected: the Chinese Communist Party unleashed this plague on the world far earlier than they’ve ever confessed, and our own government sat on the truth.
According to the report:
The number of Department of Defense facilities visited by team members after returning from Wuhan, China that experienced COVID-19 outbreaks during the first quarter of 2020, including in relation to the share of other Department of Defense facilities that experienced COVID-19 outbreaks through March 31, 2020.
Data surveillance reports from military treatment facilities indicate no statistically significant difference in COVID-19-like symptoms cases at installations with participating athletes when compared to installations without them. In addition, no significant increase in COVID-19-like signs and/or symptoms was documented for the dates of October 2019 through March 2020 as a result of U.S. Army separate surveillance testing.
Whether the Department tested members of the Armed Forces who traveled to Wuhan, China for the World Military Games for COVID-19 antibodies, and if so, what portion, if any, of those results were positive, and when such testing was conducted.
Service members were not tested for COVID-19 or antibodies due to their participation in the 2019 World Military Games, as testing was not available at this early stage of the pandemic.
Whether there are, or have been, any investigations, including whether under the auspices of an Inspector General, across the Department of Defense or the military departments into possible connections between United States athletes who traveled to Wuhan, China, and the outbreak of COVID-19.
DoD has not conducted or opened an investigation into connections between the outbreak of COVID-19 and the 2019 World Military Games.
Whether the Department has engaged with the militaries of allied or partner countries about illnesses surrounding the 2019 World Military Games, and if so, how many participating militaries have indicated to the Department that their athletes or staff may have contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or immediately after the Games.
DoD has not engaged in any discussions with allied or partner militaries about illness associated with participation in the 2019 World Military Games.
The Gateway Pundit’s previous reporting
On July 21, 2021, Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., broke an exclusive report on The Gateway Pundit from a Chinese source that the CCP intentionally released COVID-19 at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan.
According to the source, it was a test of the longer-term effects of that type of bioweapon because foreign visitors to the Games would carry it back to their own countries, and the consequences could be observed.
Because COVID-19 was designed for plausible deniability, infections could not be easily traced back to China and it could also be attributed to a natural origin.
The source explained that the subsequent outbreak in Wuhan was entirely unexpected. That is, there was no laboratory leak, but the unintended spread among the Chinese population of Wuhan of a virus for which they had underestimated its transmissibility.
Beijing learned about the silent spreading of COVID-19 by the beginning of December, but kept it quiet and allowed international flights from Wuhan to continue.
The source speculated about the COVID-19 test release and why the Wuhan outbreak was then leveraged by the Chinese Communist Party.
COVID-19 was meant to hit the United States, its allies, and the whole Western world because of China’s economic problems and the trade war being conducted by President Trump. The effects of a pandemic might cause Trump to lose the election.
If the U.S. military was disrupted by COVID-19, further pressure could be applied to Taiwan, perhaps even invasion, and the uprisings in Hong Kong could be suppressed under the guise of public health measures.
On September 22, 2021, The Gateway Pundit, citing a report in the Daily Mail, reported on a whistleblower and defector, Wei Jingsheng, alleging the COVID-19 virus was first spread at the China Military Games in 2019, two months before the global outbreak.
This appears to have been an intentional attack by the Chinese Communist Party.
The Daily Mail reported:
A whistleblower has sensationally claimed China deliberately spread Covid at a military tournament two months before the rest of the world knew about the deadly virus.
Ex-Chinese Communist Party insider Wei Jingsheng said The World Military Games in October 2019 could have acted as the virus’ first superspreader event.
The international tournament for military athletes was held in Wuhan – the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic – two months before China notified the World Health Organisation about its first cases.
