The House Oversight Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday held a hearing on the investigation of the COVID-19 origins. Lawmakers questioned the authors of a scientific paper that dismissed the lab leak theory soon after the virus broke out. Shortly before the hearing, Republicans released a report they say proved that the […]
Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic are discussing whether COVID-19 was the result of a weaponized virus and whether international organizations and even the U.S. intelligence community obfuscated evidence after the virus began to spread around the world. The special panel investigating the virus origins met for its second hearing on […]
About 60 percent of Americans surveyed in a new Quinnipiac University Poll have listed China as a bigger threat to the United States over Russia. The poll, which was conducted between March 9–13, asked 1,795 American adults about their views on a range of political topics. One question asked respondents to identify who they consider […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci denied allegations his former colleague, Dr. Robert Redfield, made during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday after Redfield said he was excluded from a conference call in early 2020 to discuss the origins of COVID-19 because he suspected the virus was the result of a lab leak. Redfield, who served as […]
Lawmakers and medical experts are calling for continued scrutiny into the origins of COVID-19 following a Wednesday hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. During the Wednesday hearing, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield; Dr. Jamie Metzl, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; author and […]
Two state attorneys general filed a motion in a free speech lawsuit on Monday, citing more than 1,400 facts from internal government documents, to prevent Biden administration officials from colluding with social media companies to censor users. “This case involves some of the most egregious First Amendment violations in American history,” Attorneys General Andrew Bailey of […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its plans for addressing pandemics in the future. This week, the World Health Assembly—the WHO’s decision-making body—began considering new ways to govern international responses to disease outbreaks. An early-stage draft before the Assembly includes […]
A former commanding officer for the UK’s chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons regiment told the Telegraph newspaper that behind closed doors, ministers consider a lab leak in Wuhan the most likely origin of COVID-19. It comes as the prime minister told MPs earlier this week that the government will update the UK’s biosecurity strategy.
A World Health Organization (WHO) research team that previously described Wuhan virus lab leak theory as “extremely unlikely” is changing its tune. Now, the team’s leader admits the statement was driven by pressure from China.
A U.S. intelligence review of the pandemic’s China origins is due Tuesday. But the public will have to wait to see a non-classified version. A report says Beijing pressured the World Health Organization to dismiss the Wuhan lab leak theory. The Chinese Communist Party retaliates against a Malaysian singer, all because he compared the regime’s […]
The primary focus of the lab leak theory has been concentrated on the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its director, Shi Zhengli— known for her coronavirus experiments involving bats at the institute’s two labs. But there is another lab in the city of Wuhan that has received far less attention: the level-2 lab of the […]
The World Health Organization’s March 2021 report said a lab leak was extremely unlikely. The organization’s lead investigator, Peter Ben Embarek, said there should be no further investigation of the lab leak theory. He stated that a lab leak could not explain the introduction of the virus to the human population, and he claimed that […]
Jeremy Farrar is the head of the UK’s Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest charitable trusts. He and his organization were deeply involved in the early COVID-19 response. Farrar also spearheaded efforts to suppress the lab leak theory. We know this because of Farrar’s documented participation in a secret teleconference that he organized with […]
