FOI documents on origins of SARS-CoV-2, hazards of gain-of-function research and biosafety labs

U.S. Right to Know is researching the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the hazards of biosafety laboratories and gain-of-function research, which aims to increase the infectivity or lethality of potential pandemic pathogens. We post updates and new findings on our Biohazards Blog.

• Baric emails batch #2: University of North Carolina (2.17.21) (332 pages).
  Records of University of North Carolina (UNC) Professor Ralph Baric.

• • See our reporting: Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins and Chinese scientists sought to change name of deadly coronavirus to distance it from China
• CSU Records (1.21.21) (2276 pages).
  Records of Colorado State University (CSU) Professors Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz– virologists who study bat-associated pathogens of security concern in hot-spots all over the world.

• • See our reporting: How safe are the biolabs at Colorado State? and Colorado State University documents on bat pathogen research
• NCBI Emails (12.29.20) (63 pages).
  National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) 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
• Baric emails: University of North Carolina (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, COVID-19 experts and experts in biodefense and infectious diseases. Dr. Baric is William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of  Epidemiology and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • See our reporting: New emails show scientists’ deliberations on how to discuss SARS-CoV-2 origins and Items from coronavirus expert Ralph Baric‘s emails
• • EcoHealth Alliance emails: University of Maryland (11.18.20)(466 pages).
    Professor Rita Colwell’s emails with staff of EcoHealth Alliance. Dr. Colwell is distinguished university professor, biomolecular sciences at the University of Maryland. She is a member of the EcoHealth Alliance board of directors.
    • See our reporting: EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 and Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins