Here is a reading list of articles from the past six months about what is known and not known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, accidents and leaks at biosafety and biowarfare laboratories, and the health risks of gain-of-function research, which aims to increase the host range, transmissibility, infectivity or pathogenicity of potential pandemic pathogens. This list is a work in progress. If you have suggestions for other readings that should be on this page, please send them to us via email at hana@usrtk.org.

The New York Times. We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives. [Opinion]. By Zeynep Tufekci. March 16, 2025.

The New York Times. Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm. [Opinion]. By W. Ian Lipkin and Ralph Baric. March 3, 2025.

Vanity Fair. Exclusive: Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation. By Katherine Eban. February 27, 2025.

Nature news. What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs. By Smriti Mallapaty. February 21, 2025.

The New York Times. C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins. By Julian E. Barnes. January 25, 2025.

The Wall Street Journal. Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak. By Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel. December 26, 2024.