For more information about our investigation, see our biohazards page. You can read our reporting here on the documents we have obtained so far from Freedom of Information requests. The documents are posted below in approximately the chronological order in which we received them.
In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records requests in pursuit of data from public institutions in an effort to discover what is known about the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease Covid-19. We are also researching accidents, leaks and other mishaps at laboratories where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and modified, and the risks of gain-of-function research, which involve experiments on such pathogens to increase their host range, infectivity, transmissibility or pathogenicity.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) records
USAID batch #20 (12.19.24) (101 pages)
USAID batch #19 (12.19.24) (57 pages)
USAID batch #18 (12.19.24) (50 pages)
USAID batch #17 (12.19.24) (50 pages)
USAID batch #16 (4.24.24) (336 pages)
USAID batch #15 (4.24.24) (394 pages)
USAID batch #14 (4.24.24) (212 pages)
USAID batch #13 (4.24.24) (560 pages)
USAID batch #12 (4.24.24) (322 pages)
USAID batch #11 (4.19.24) (81 pages)
USAID batch #10 (2.25.24) (300 pages)
USAID batch #9 (2.10.24) (2 pages)
USAID batch #8 (2.10.24) (135 pages)
USAID batch #7 (2.10.24) (197 pages)
USAID batch #6 (2.10.24) (562 pages)
USAID batch #5 (9.7.22) (153 pages)
USAID batch #4 (8.12.22) (302 pages)
USAID batch #3 (8.12.22) (628 pages)
USAID batch #2 (4.7.22) (357 pages)
USAID batch #1 (3.17.22) (42 pages)
U.S. State Department records
State Department batch #75 (12.19.24) (1091 pages)
State Department batch #74 (12.19.24) (444 pages)
State Department batch #73 (12.19.24) (405 pages)
State Department batch #72 (12.19.24) (371 pages)
State Department batch #71 (12.19.24) (232 pages)
State Department batch #70 (12.19.24) (239 pages)
State Department batch #69 (12.19.24) (368 pages)
State Department batch #68 (12.19.24) (180 pages)
State Department batch #67 (12.19.24) (39 pages)
State Department batch #66 (12.19.24) (24 pages)
State Department batch #65 (12.19.24) (73 pages)
State Department batch #64 (12.19.24) (510 pages)
State Department batch #62 (12.19.24) (291 pages)
State Department batch #61 (12.19.24) (178 pages)
State Department batch #60 (12.19.24) (388 pages)
State Department batch #59 (12.19.24) (201 pages)
State Department batch #58 (12.19.24) (209 pages)
State Department batch #57 (12.19.24) (544 pages)
State Department batch #56 (12.19.24) (14 pages)
State Department batch #55 (12.19.24) (39 pages)
State Department batch #54 (12.19.24) (29 pages)
State Department batch #53 (2.8.23) (578 pages)
State Department batch #52 (2.7.23) (34 pages, almost entirely redacted)
State Department batch #51 (2.7.23) (10 pages, almost entirely redacted)
State Department batch #50 (2.7.23) (1,091 pages)
State Department batch #49 (10.30.23) (32 pages)
State Department batch #48 (10.30.23) (380 pages)
State Department batch #47 (10.30.23) (529 pages)
State Department batch #46 (10.30.23) (264 pages)
State Department batch #45 (10.30.23)(64 pages)
State Department batch #44 (10.30.23) (55 pages)
State Department batch #43 (10.30.23) (128 pages)
State Department batch #42 (10.30.23) (130 pages)
State Department batch #41 (10.30.23) (126 pages)
State Department batch #40 (7.31.23) (185 pages)
State Department batch #39 (7.31.23) (38 pages)
State Department batch #38 (4.28.23) (17 pages)
State Department batch #37 (4.28.23) (257 pages)
State Department batch #36 (4.28.23) (191 pages)
State Department batch #35 (4.28.23) (1019 pages)
State Department batch #34 (4.28.23) (135 pages)
State Department batch #33 (4.28.23) (14 pages)
State Department batch #32 (4.27.23) (75 pages)
State Department batch #31 (4.27.23) (61 pages)
State Department batch #30 (4.27.23) (39 pages)
See our reporting: U.S. officials: Criticism of Chinese lab ‘called out actions that we ourselves are doing’ (4.3.23)
State Department batch #29 (4.3.23) (910 pages)
State Department batch #28 (4.3.23) (135 pages)
State Department batch #27 (3.2.23) (77 pages, almost fully redacted)
State Department batch #26 (1.10.23) (121 pages)
State Department batch #25 (1.4.23) (121 pages)
State Department batch #24 (1.4.23) (12 pages)
State Department batch #23 (1.4.23) (96 pages)
State Department batch #22 (1.4.23) (297 pages
State Department batch #21 (1.4.23) (29 pages)
State Department batch #20 (1.4.23) (273 pages)
State Department batch #19 (1.4.23) (100 pages)
State Department batch #18 (11.28.22) (73 pages)
State Department batch #17 (9.1.22) (73 pages)
State Department batch #16 (9.1.22) (62 pages)
State Department batch #15 (9.1.22) (65 pages)
State Department batch #14 (5.24.22) (11 pages)
State Department batch #13 (4.26.22) (16 pages)
State Department batch #12 (3.28.22) (45 pages)
See our reporting: Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ COVID origin, State Dept. memo says (3.28.22)
State Department batch #11 (2.24.22) (52 pages)
State Department batch #10 (1.25.22) (47 pages)
State Department batch #9 (12.27.21) (20 pages)
State Department batch #8 (12.7.21) (16 pages)
State Department batch #7 (10.28.21) (37 pages)
State Department batch #6 (9.27.21) (100 pages)
State Department batch #5 (7.26.21) (56 pages)
- January 2018 cable on the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 laboratory (a more complete version of the cable first reported by Josh Rogin in the Washington Post)
State Department batch #4 (6.24.21) (129 pages)
State Department batch #3 (5.24.21) (114 pages)
State Department batch #2 (4.26.21) (37 pages)
State Department batch #1 (3.24.21) (92 pages)
See our reporting:
National Institutes of Health (NIH) records
NIH batch #72 (12.19.24) (335 pages)
NIH batch #71 (11.12.24) (213 pages)
NIH batch #70 (10.23.24) (218 pages)
NIH batch #69 (10.23.24) (213 pages)
NIH batch #68 (10.22.24) (502 pages)
NIH batch #67 (10.15.24) (664 pages)
NIH batch #66 (10.15.24) (386 pages)
NIH batch #65 (10.8.24) (500 pages)
NIH batch #64 (10.7.24) (504 pages)
NIH batch #63 (10.7.24) (386 pages)
NIH batch #62 (10.7.24) (274 pages)
NIH batch #61 (10.7.24) (520 pages)
NIH batch #60 (9.25.24) (386 pages)
NIH batch #59 (9.25.24) (217 pages)
NIH batch #58 (9.25.24) (512 pages)
NIH batch #57 (9.25.24) (302 pages)
NIH batch #56 (9.25.24) (501 pages)
NIH batch #55 (9.12.24) (66 pages)
NIH batch #54 (9.10.24) (9 pages)
NIH batch #53 (9.10.24) (23 pages)
NIH batch #52 (9.10.24) (501 pages, almost fully redacted)
NIH batch #51 (9.10.24) (562 pages, almost fully redacted)
NIH batch #50 (9.6.24) (500 pages)
NIH batch #49 (9.6.24) (20 pages)
NIH batch #48 (9.6.24) (13 pages)
NIH batch #47 (9.6.24) (300 pages)
NIH batch #46 (9.6.24) (142 pages)
NIH batch #45 (7.15.24) (154 pages)
NIH batch #44 (7.15.24) (241 pages)
NIH batch #43 (5.30.24) (335 pages)
NIH batch #42 (5.13.24) (217 pages)
NIH batch #41 (4.25.24) (190 pages)
NIH batch #40 (4.18.24) (20 pages)
NIH batch #39 (3.25.24) (300 pages, 298 pages fully redacted)
NIH batch #38 (3.11.24) (302 pages)
NIH batch #37 (2.10.24) (304 pages)
NIH batch #36 (2.10.24) (509 pages)
NIH batch #35 (2.1.24) (501 pages)
NIH batch #34 (1.29.24) (280 pages)
NIH batch #33 (1.17.23) (465 pages)
NIH batch #32 (1.17.23) (509 pages)
NIH batch #31 (1.17.23) (476 pages)
NIH batch #30 (11.3.23) (49 pages)
NIH batch #29 (9.12.23) (13 pages)
NIH batch #28 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (330 pages)
NIH batch #27 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (292 pages)
NIH batch #26 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (302 pages)
NIH batch #25 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (313 pages)
NIH batch #24 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (311 pages)
NIH batch #23 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (279 pages)
NIH batch #22 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (219 pages)
NIH batch #21 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (300 pages)
NIH batch #20 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (304 pages)
NIH batch #19 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (300 pages)
NIH batch #18 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (337 pages)
NIH batch #17 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (303 pages)
NIH batch #16 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (301 pages)
NIH batch #15 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (300 pages)
NIH batch #14 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (303 pages)
NIH batch #13 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (315 pages)
NIH batch #12 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (310 pages)
NIH batch #11 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (298 pages)
NIH batch #10 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (309 pages)
NIH batch #9 (produced first for Buzzfeed) (7.27.23) (308 pages)
NIH batch #8 (1.19.23) (310 pages)
NIH batch #7 (1.19.23) (315 pages)
NIH batch #6 (1.19.23) (303 pages)
NIH batch #5 (8.26.22) (54 pages)
NIH batch #4 (6.17.22) (230 pages)
NIH batch #3 (6.17.22) (291 pages)
NIH batch #2 (3.3.22) (308 pages)
NIH batch #1 (2.1.22) (322 pages)
UC Davis/Jonna Mazet emails and documents
Documents obtained through a California Public Records Act request for records of UC Davis Vice Provost Jonna Mazet. Dr. Mazet was the principal investigator on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threat (EPT) Program PREDICT-1 and PREDICT-2 grants with the EcoHealth Alliance.
Batch #46 (12.18.24) (27 pages)
Batch #45 (12.18.24) (42 pages)
Batch #44 (12.18.24) (21 pages)
Batch #43 (12.18.24) (47 pages)
Batch #42 (12.18.24) (83 pages)
Batch #41 (11.9.24) (92 pages)
Batch #40 (11.9.24) (136 pages)
Batch #39 (11.8.24) (296 pages)
Batch #38 (11.8.24) (373 pages)
Batch #37 (11.8.24) (313 pages)
Batch #36 (11.8.24) (334 pages)
Batch #35 (11.8.24) (343 pages)
Batch #34 (11.8.24) (506 pages)
Batch #33 (11.8.24) (287 pages)
Batch #32 (10.22.24) (2,886 pages)
Batch #31 (10.15.24) (147 pages)
Batch #30 (10.15.24) (92 pages)
Batch #29, Part 3 (9.13.23) (262 pages)
Batch #29, Part 2 (9.13.23) (308 pages)
Batch #29, Part 1 (9.13.23) (321 pages)
Batch #28 (9.13.23) (108 pages)
Batch #27 (9.13.23) (309 pages)
Batch #26 (9.13.23) (297 pages)
Batch #25 (9.13.23) (411 pages)
Batch #24, Part 2 (9.13.23) (350 pages)
Batch #24, Part 1 (9.13.23) (365 pages)
Batch #23 (6.30.23) (265 pages)
Batch #22 (6.30.23) (301 pages)
Batch #21 (6.30.23) (388 pages)
Batch #20, Part 2 (6.30.23) (240 pages)
Batch #20, Part 1 (6.30.23) (241 pages)
Batch #19, Part 2 (6.23.23) (251 pages)
Batch #19, Part 1 (6.23.23) (246 pages)
Batch #18, Part 2 (6.23.23) (202 pages)
Batch #18, Part 1 (6.23.23) (200 pages)
Batch #17, Part 5 (6.23.23) (259 pages)
Batch #17, Part 4 (6.23.23) (251 pages)
Batch #17, Part 3 (6.23.23) (299 pages)
Batch #17, Part 2 (6.23.23) (299 pages)
Batch #17, Part 1 (6.23.23) (324 pages)
Batch #16, Part 2 (6.23.23) (307 pages)
Batch #16, Part 1 (6.23.23) (311 pages)
Batch #15 (6.23.23) (63 pages)
Batch #14 (6.23.23) (300 pages)
Batch #13 (9.12.22) (364 pages)
Batch #12 (9.12.22) (518 pages)
Batch #11 (9.12.22) (218 pages)
Batch #10 (9.12.22) (311 pages)
Batch #9 (9.12.22) (471 pages)
Batch #8 (9.12.22) (495 pages)
Batch #7 (9.12.22) (591 pages)
Batch #6 (9.12.22) (1049 pages)
Batch #5 (9.12.22) (1090 pages)
Batch #4 (1.10.22) (261 pages)
Batch #3 (12.7.21) (137 pages)
Batch #2 (12.7.21) (541 pages)
Batch #1 (10.27.21)(139 pages)
Department of Defense Uniformed Services University (DoD USU)
DoD USU batch #5 (7.8.24) (3711 pages)
DoD USU batch #4 (7.8.24) (1967 pages)
DoD USU batch #3 (7.8.24) (93 pages)
DoD USU batch #2 (7.8.24) (1911 pages)
DoD USU batch #1 (2.14.24) (7647 pages)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) records
ODNI batch #2 (6.26.24) (45 pages)
ODNI batch #1 (6.26.24) (22 pages)
Ralph Baric and Toni Baric emails
Baric emails batch #9 (4.17.24) (606 pages)
Baric emails batch #8 (2.8.24) (7 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #7: (2.3.23) (620 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #6: (2.3.23) (1,599 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #5: (2.3.23) (3 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #4: (12.30.21) (24 pages) Documents made available through a North Carolina public records law request for communications of Professor Ralph Baric related to biodefense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Ralph Baric emails batch #3: (2.25.21) (22,736 pages) Documents obtained from public records requests for emails Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ralph Baric emails batch #2: (2.17.21) (332 pages).
See our reporting:
- Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins (2.15.21)
Ralph Baric emails batch #1 (12.14.20) (83,416 pages). Dr. Ralph Baric’s emails with EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and experts in biodefense and infectious diseases.
See our reporting:
University of Texas Medical Branch
Vineet Menachery/UTMB batch #5 (3.27.24) (21 pages)
Vineet Menachery/UTMB batch #4 (3.27.24) (213 pages)
Vineet Menachery/UTMB batch #3 (3.15.24) (64 pages)
Vineet Menachery/Pei-Yong Shi/UTMB batch #2 (5.4.22) (5070 pages)
LeDuc/UTMB batch #1 (4.27.22) (4578 pages)
UTMB-Wuhan Institute of Virology memorandum of understanding (4.20.22) (9 pages)
See our reporting: Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab. (4.20.22)
United States Geological Survey (USGS) records
USGS batch #2 (3.27.24) (63 pages)
USGS DEFUSE full batch (1.18.24) (1417 pages)
USGS DEFUSE batch #1 (12.18.23) (235 pages)
Department of Energy
DOE batch #1 (2.13.24) (30 pages)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records
CDC batch #5 (2.8.23) (34 pages)
CDC batch #3 (4.13.22) (1,864 pages)
See our reporting: Emails raise questions about China’s sway over first WHO mission on COVID-19.
CDC batch #2 (6.28.21) (1,302 pages)
CDC batch #1 (3.05.21) (1,063 pages)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA batch #1 (2.5.24) (38 pages)
DARPA batch #2 (2.5.24) (116 pages)
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) records
HHS batch #14 (10.18.22) (439 pages)
HHS batch #13 (10.18.22) (394 pages)
HHS batch #12 (10.18.22) (286 pages)
HHS batch #11 (10.18.22) (353 pages)
HHS batch #10 (10.6.22) (6 pages)
HHS batch #9 (9.1.22) (28 pages)
HHS batch #8 (9.1.22) (87 pages)
HHS batch #7 (9.1.22) (21 pages)
HHS batch #6 (9.1.22) (363 pages)
HHS batch #5 (9.1.22) (141 pages)
HHS batch #4 (4.8.22) (248 pages)
HHS batch #3 (4.8.22) (325 pages)
HHS batch #2 (1.26.22) (321 pages)
HHS batch #1 (12.30.21) (266 pages)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) grant documents
DTRA batch #14 (6.30.23) (849 pages)
DTRA batch #13 (6.30.23) (489 pages)
DTRA batch #12 (6.30.23) (433 pages)
DTRA batch #11 (6.30.23) (470 pages)
DTRA batch #10 (6.30.23) (463 pages)
DTRA batch #9 (6.30.23) (266 pages)
DTRA batch #8 (6.30.23) (69 pages)
DTRA batch #7 (6.30.23) (89 pages)
DTRA batch #6 (7.1.22) (2387 pages)
DTRA batch #5 (7.1.22) (1499 pages)
DTRA batch #4 (7.1.22) (1216 pages)
DTRA batch #3 (7.1.22) (1132 pages)
DTRA batch #2 (2.23.22) (311 pages)
Records obtained from a FOIA request to DTRA, containing DTRA grants and awards to the EcoHealth Alliance, for projects such as: biosurveillance for zoonotic spillover of viruses in rural communities in India; reducing the threat of MERS coronavirus and avian influenza; predicting biothreat impacts from early stage data via transfer learning, and more.
DTRA batch #1 (2.22.22) (2790 pages)
Records obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, containing DTRA grants and awards to the EcoHealth Alliance, for projects such as: developing a rapid identification tool for undisclosed emerging infectious disease events, understanding Rift Valley fever in South Africa, serological biosurveillance for spillover of henipaviruses and filoviruses in Malaysia and India, and others.
Washington State University emails and documents
Batch #2 (6.23.23) (126 pages)
Batch #1 (6.23.23) (670 pages)
Rita Colwell emails via University of Maryland
Rita Colwell emails with EcoHealth Alliance staff (part two) (6.6.23) (289 pages). After lengthy litigation against the University of Maryland, more documents obtained about Rita Colwell, a longtime member of EcoHealth Alliance’s board of directors.
Rita Colwell emails with EcoHealth Alliance staff (11.18.20) (466 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Rita Colwell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a member of the EcoHealth Alliance board of directors.
See our reporting:
- Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins (11.24.20)
- EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 (11.18.20)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records
Records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) communications with or about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Wuhan-based research institutes; EcoHealth Alliance; China; and the Global Health Security Agenda.Records include proposed SARS-CoV-2 human challenge studies (not clinical trials) to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, associated with the published World Health Organization nCoV Research & Development Blueprint. Draft informed consent and study protocols as well as descriptions of biocontainment units and SARS-CoV-2 challenge strains are included.
Batch #9 (1.24.23) (39 pages)
Batch #8 (1.24.23) (455 pages)
Batch #7 (1.23.23) (13 pages)
Batch #6 (1.23.23) (417 pages)
Batch #5 (1.23.23) (250 pages)
Batch #4 (1.23.23) (252 pages)
Batch #3 (1.23.23) (306 pages)
Batch #2 (1.23.23) (305 pages)
Batch #1 (12.10.21) (262 pages)
Department of Education
Department of Education batch#8 (1.22.23) (1611 pages)
Department of Education batch#7 (1.22.23) (1468 pages)
Department of Education batch#6 (1.22.23) (1261 pages)
Department of Education batch #5 (10.7.22) (424 pages)
Department of Education batch #4 (10.7.22) (554 pages)
Department of Education batch #3 (8.22.22) (752 pages)
Department of Education batch #2 (4.14.22) (7 pages)
Department of Education batch #1 (3.14.22) (1095 pages)
Shan-Lu Liu emails
Shan-Lu Liu emails (Batch 3): Ohio State University (1.12.23) (1265 pages)
Zhengli Shi’s edits to a widely-cited EM&I commentary titled “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2.” (9.27.21) (10 pages). Document obtained through an Ohio Public Records Act request for a missing attachment from the email records of Ohio State University Professor Shan-Lu Liu.
Shan-Lu Liu emails: Ohio State University (8.4.21) (488 pages).
Documents were obtained through an Ohio Public Records Act request for the email records of Shan-Lu Liu, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University.
See our reporting:
- Wuhan Institute of Virology has many unreported bat virus samples, collaborating virologist says (8.10.21)
Yoshihiro Kawaoka/University of Wisconsin-Madison emails
UW-Madison batch #2 (9.30.22) (114 pages)
UW-Madison batch #1 (6.26.22) (63 pages)
Records were obtained via a Wisconsin Public Records Law request to the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison for emails of Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Dr. Kawaoka conducts research on influenza viruses and coronaviruses, and became well-known for his gain-of-function experiments to enable the airborne spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1.
Chao Shan/University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston emails
Chao Shan batch #2 (9.12.22) (1311 pages)
Chao Shan batch #1 (6.30.22) (932 pages)
Dr. Chao Shan conducted research on Zika virus as a postdoctoral scientist with Professor Pei-Yong Shi at UTMB-Galveston, before taking a position at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Xiang-Dong Fu emails
Documents obtained through a California Public Records Act request for records of Professor Xiang-Dong Fu, Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California- San Diego. Dr. Fu has been a member of the International Executive Committee of Performance Evaluation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Batch #1 (11.12.21) (641 pages)
Latinne et al. (2020) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI emails (10.12.21): File #1, File #2, File #3, File #4, File #5, File #6, File #7, File #8. Emails between NCBI and scientists from Ecohealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology regarding the submission of genetic sequence information about bat betacoronavirus isolate 7896, which is very closely related to RaTG13.
National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB)
NSABB emails (10.11.21) (104 pages). Emails between Mary Ellen Groesch, NSABB members, and NIH staff regarding the replacement of 11 NSABB members, and 2014 plans to discuss dual use research guidelines (DURC) and a new biosecurity and biosafety program.
Documents obtained through FOIA to the NIH for email correspondence of Dr. Mary Ellen Groesch, Office of the Director, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and former executive director of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
CSIRO emails
CSIRO emails: Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Records.Documents obtained through an Australian Freedom of Information Act request to CSIRO for email records between Gary Crameri, Researcher, Health and Biosecurity Business Unit, Australian Center for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) of CSIRO, and collaborators, including Drs. Lin-Fa Wang and Edward C. Holmes.
CSIRO Batch #5 (8.31.21) (63 pages)
CSIRO Batch #4 (8.31.21) (99 pages)
CSIRO Batch #3 (8.31.21) (50 pages)
CSIRO Batch #2 (8.31.21) (4 pages)
CSIRO Batch #1 (8.31.21) (154 pages)
Fang Li emails
Fang Li emails: (6.25.21) (1234 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Fang Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Linda Saif emails
Linda Saif emails batch #1: (4.7.21) (303 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Linda Saif, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine, Center for Food Animal Health, OhioAgricultural Researchand Development Center, Ohio State University.
See our reporting: Chinese-linked journal editor sought help to rebut Covid-19 lab origin hypothesis (5.24.21)
Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz emails
Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz (1.21.21) (2276 pages). Documents obtained from Colorado State University professors Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz of the Center for Vector-Born Infectious Diseases (CVID).
See our reporting:
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI Emails (12.29.20) (63 pages). Emails with coronavirus scientists who authored four key studies on coronavirus origins, about their revisions to genomic datasets associated with these studies.
See our reporting: Altered datasets raise more questions about reliability of key studies on coronavirus origins (12.29.20)
University of Massachusetts Medical School/Shan Lu emails
Dr. Shan Lu’s emails in connection to his role as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) were obtained through a Massachusetts Public Records Act. Shan Lu played an essential role in EMI’s publication of a widely cited commentary strongly rebutting the theory that SARS-CoV-2 might have been emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency batch #1 (9.5.23) (4 pages) – Version 1
Defense Intelligence Agency batch #1 (9.5.23) (4 pages) – Version 2
U.S. State Department records
State Department batch #42 (8.30.23) (32 pages)
State Department batch #41 (7.31.23) (37 pages)
State Department batch #40 (7.31.23) (185 pages)
State Department batch #39 (7.31.23) (38 pages)
State Department batch #38 (4.28.23) (17 pages)
State Department batch #37 (4.28.23) (257 pages)
State Department batch #36 (4.28.23) (191 pages)
State Department batch #35 (4.28.23) (1019 pages)
State Department batch #34 (4.28.23) (135 pages)
State Department batch #33 (4.28.23) (14 pages)
State Department batch #32 (4.27.23) (75 pages)
State Department batch #31 (4.27.23) (61 pages)
State Department batch #30 (4.27.23) (39 pages)
See our reporting: U.S. officials: Criticism of Chinese lab ‘called out actions that we ourselves are doing’ (4.3.23)
State Department batch #29 (4.3.23) (910 pages)
State Department batch #28 (4.3.23) (135 pages)
State Department batch #27 (3.2.23) (77 pages, almost fully redacted)
State Department batch #26 (1.10.23) (121 pages)
State Department batch #25 (1.4.23) (121 pages)
State Department batch #24 (1.4.23) (12 pages)
State Department batch #23 (1.4.23) (96 pages)
State Department batch #22 (1.4.23) (297 pages
State Department batch #21 (1.4.23) (29 pages)
State Department batch #20 (1.4.23) (273 pages)
State Department batch #19 (1.4.23) (100 pages)
State Department batch #18 (11.28.22) (73 pages)
State Department batch #17 (9.1.22) (73 pages)
State Department batch #16 (9.1.22) (62 pages)
State Department batch #15 (9.1.22) (65 pages)
State Department batch #14 (5.24.22) (11 pages)
State Department batch #13 (4.26.22) (16 pages)
State Department batch #12 (3.28.22) (45 pages)
See our reporting: Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ COVID origin, State Dept. memo says (3.28.22)
State Department batch #11 (2.24.22) (52 pages)
State Department batch #10 (1.25.22) (47 pages)
State Department batch #9 (12.27.21) (20 pages)
State Department batch #8 (12.7.21) (16 pages)
State Department batch #7 (10.28.21) (37 pages)
State Department batch #6 (9.27.21) (100 pages)
State Department batch #5 (7.26.21) (56 pages)
- January 2018 cable on the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 laboratory (a more complete version of the cable first reported by Josh Rogin in the Washington Post)
State Department batch #4 (6.24.21) (129 pages)
State Department batch #3 (5.24.21) (114 pages)
State Department batch #2 (4.26.21) (37 pages)
State Department batch 1 (3.24.21) (92 pages)
See our reporting:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) grant documents
DTRA batch #14 (6.30.23) (849 pages)
DTRA batch #13 (6.30.23) (489 pages)
DTRA batch #12 (6.30.23) (433 pages)
DTRA batch #11 (6.30.23) (470 pages)
DTRA batch #10 (6.30.23) (463 pages)
DTRA batch #9 (6.30.23) (266 pages)
DTRA batch #8 (6.30.23) (69 pages)
DTRA batch #7 (6.30.23) (89 pages)
DTRA batch #6 (7.1.22) (2387 pages)
DTRA batch #5 (7.1.22) (1499 pages)
DTRA batch #4 (7.1.22) (1216 pages)
DTRA batch #3 (7.1.22) (1132 pages)
DTRA batch #2 (2.23.22) (311 pages)
Records obtained from a FOIA request to DTRA, containing DTRA grants and awards to the EcoHealth Alliance, for projects such as: biosurveillance for zoonotic spillover of viruses in rural communities in India; reducing the threat of MERS coronavirus and avian influenza; predicting biothreat impacts from early stage data via transfer learning, and more.
DTRA batch #1 (2.22.22) (2790 pages)
Records obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, containing DTRA grants and awards to the EcoHealth Alliance, for projects such as: developing a rapid identification tool for undisclosed emerging infectious disease events, understanding Rift Valley fever in South Africa, serological biosurveillance for spillover of henipaviruses and filoviruses in Malaysia and India, and others.
Washington State University emails and documents
Batch #2 (6.23.23) (126 pages)
Batch #1 (6.23.23) (670 pages)
Rita Colwell emails via University of Maryland
Rita Colwell emails with EcoHealth Alliance staff (part two) (6.6.23) (289 pages). After lengthy litigation against the University of Maryland, more documents obtained about Rita Colwell, a longtime member of EcoHealth Alliance’s board of directors.
Rita Colwell emails with EcoHealth Alliance staff (11.18.20) (466 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Rita Colwell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a member of the EcoHealth Alliance board of directors.
See our reporting:
- Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins (11.24.20)
- EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 (11.18.20)
Ralph Baric emails
Ralph Baric emails batch #7: (2.3.23) (620 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #6: (2.3.23) (1,599 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #5: (2.3.23) (3 pages)
Ralph Baric emails batch #4: (12.30.21) (24 pages) Documents made available through a North Carolina public records law request for communications of Professor Ralph Baric related to biodefense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Ralph Baric emails batch #3: (2.25.21) (22,736 pages) Documents obtained from public records requests for emails Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ralph Baric emails batch #2: (2.17.21) (332 pages).
See our reporting:
- Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins (2.15.21)
Ralph Baric emails batch #1 (12.14.20) (83,416 pages). Dr. Ralph Baric’s emails with EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and experts in biodefense and infectious diseases.
See our reporting:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records
Records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) communications with or about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Wuhan-based research institutes; EcoHealth Alliance; China; and the Global Health Security Agenda.Records include proposed SARS-CoV-2 human challenge studies (not clinical trials) to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, associated with the published World Health Organization nCoV Research & Development Blueprint. Draft informed consent and study protocols as well as descriptions of biocontainment units and SARS-CoV-2 challenge strains are included.
Batch #9 (1.24.23) (39 pages)
Batch #8 (1.24.23) (455 pages)
Batch #7 (1.23.23) (13 pages)
Batch #6 (1.23.23) (417 pages)
Batch #5 (1.23.23) (250 pages)
Batch #4 (1.23.23) (252 pages)
Batch #3 (1.23.23) (306 pages)
Batch #2 (1.23.23) (305 pages)
Batch #1 (12.10.21) (262 pages)
Department of Education
Department of Education batch#8 (1.22.23) (1611 pages)
Department of Education batch#7 (1.22.23) (1468 pages)
Department of Education batch#6 (1.22.23) (1261 pages)
Department of Education batch #5 (10.7.22) (424 pages)
Department of Education batch #4 (10.7.22) (554 pages)
Department of Education batch #3 (8.22.22) (752 pages)
Department of Education batch #2 (4.14.22) (7 pages)
Department of Education batch #1 (3.14.22) (1095 pages)
Shan-Lu Liu emails
Shan-Lu Liu emails (Batch 3): Ohio State University (1.12.23) (1265 pages)
Zhengli Shi’s edits to a widely-cited EM&I commentary titled “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2.” (9.27.21) (10 pages). Document obtained through an Ohio Public Records Act request for a missing attachment from the email records of Ohio State University Professor Shan-Lu Liu.
Shan-Lu Liu emails: Ohio State University (8.4.21) (488 pages).
Documents were obtained through an Ohio Public Records Act request for the email records of Shan-Lu Liu, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University.
See our reporting:
- Wuhan Institute of Virology has many unreported bat virus samples, collaborating virologist says (8.10.21)
Yoshihiro Kawaoka/University of Wisconsin-Madison emails
UW-Madison batch #2 (9.30.22) (114 pages)
UW-Madison batch #1 (6.26.22) (63 pages)
Records were obtained via a Wisconsin Public Records Law request to the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison for emails of Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Dr. Kawaoka conducts research on influenza viruses and coronaviruses, and became well-known for his gain-of-function experiments to enable the airborne spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1.
Chao Shan/University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston emails
Chao Shan batch #2 (9.12.22) (1311 pages)
Chao Shan batch #1 (6.30.22) (932 pages)
Dr. Chao Shan conducted research on Zika virus as a postdoctoral scientist with Professor Pei-Yong Shi at UTMB-Galveston, before taking a position at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) records
USAID batch #5 (9.7.22) (153 pages)
USAID batch #4 (8.12.22) (302 pages)
USAID batch #3 (8.12.22) (628 pages)
USAID batch #2 (4.7.22) (357 pages)
USAID batch #1 (3.17.22) (42 pages)
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) records
HHS batch #10 (10.6.22) (6 pages)
HHS batch #9 (9.1.22) (28 pages)
HHS batch #8 (9.1.22) (87 pages)
HHS batch #7 (9.1.22) (21 pages)
HHS batch #6 (9.1.22) (363 pages)
HHS batch #5 (9.1.22) (141 pages)
HHS batch #4 (4.8.22) (248 pages)
HHS batch #3 (4.8.22) (325 pages)
HHS batch #2 (1.26.22) (321 pages)
HHS batch #1 (12.30.21) (266 pages)
University of Texas Medical Branch
Vineet Menachery/Pei-Yong Shi/UTMB batch #2 (5.4.22) (5070 pages)
LeDuc/UTMB batch #1 (4.27.22) (4578 pages)
UTMB-Wuhan Institute of Virology memorandum of understanding (4.20.22) (9 pages)
See our reporting: Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab. (4.20.22)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records
CDC batch #4 (4.13.22) (1,864 pages)
CDC batch #3 (4.13.22) (1,864 pages)
See our reporting: Emails raise questions about China’s sway over first WHO mission on COVID-19.
CDC batch #2 (6.28.21) (1,302 pages)
CDC batch #1 (3.05.21) (1,063 pages)
Xiang-Dong Fu emails
Documents obtained through a California Public Records Act request for records of Professor Xiang-Dong Fu, Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California- San Diego. Dr. Fu has been a member of the International Executive Committee of Performance Evaluation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Batch #1 (11.12.21) (641 pages)
Latinne et al. (2020) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI emails (10.12.21): File #1, File #2, File #3, File #4, File #5, File #6, File #7, File #8. Emails between NCBI and scientists from Ecohealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology regarding the submission of genetic sequence information about bat betacoronavirus isolate 7896, which is very closely related to RaTG13.
National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB)
NSABB emails (10.11.21) (104 pages). Emails between Mary Ellen Groesch, NSABB members, and NIH staff regarding the replacement of 11 NSABB members, and 2014 plans to discuss dual use research guidelines (DURC) and a new biosecurity and biosafety program.
Documents obtained through FOIA to the NIH for email correspondence of Dr. Mary Ellen Groesch, Office of the Director, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and former executive director of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
CSIRO emails
CSIRO emails: Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Records.Documents obtained through an Australian Freedom of Information Act request to CSIRO for email records between Gary Crameri, Researcher, Health and Biosecurity Business Unit, Australian Center for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) of CSIRO, and collaborators, including Drs. Lin-Fa Wang and Edward C. Holmes.
CSIRO Batch #5 (8.31.21) (63 pages)
CSIRO Batch #4 (8.31.21) (99 pages)
CSIRO Batch #3 (8.31.21) (50 pages)
CSIRO Batch #2 (8.31.21) (4 pages)
CSIRO Batch #1 (8.31.21) (154 pages)
Fang Li emails
Fang Li emails: (6.25.21) (1234 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Fang Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Linda Saif emails
Linda Saif emails batch #1: (4.7.21) (303 pages). Documents obtained from public records requests for emails of Linda Saif, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine, Center for Food Animal Health, OhioAgricultural Researchand Development Center, Ohio State University.
See our reporting: Chinese-linked journal editor sought help to rebut Covid-19 lab origin hypothesis (5.24.21)
Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz emails
Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz (1.21.21) (2276 pages). Documents obtained from Colorado State University professors Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz of the Center for Vector-Born Infectious Diseases (CVID).
See our reporting:
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI Emails (12.29.20) (63 pages). Emails with coronavirus scientists who authored four key studies on coronavirus origins, about their revisions to genomic datasets associated with these studies.
See our reporting: Altered datasets raise more questions about reliability of key studies on coronavirus origins (12.29.20)
