Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
[caption id="attachment_18097" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Anthony Fauci shaped an editorial dismissing the idea COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after being alerted to...
September 14, 2022
Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci emailed about whether NIH funded Wuhan lab before secret call
[caption id="attachment_18068" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Leaders in infectious diseases research funding may have unduly shaped the public's understanding of where COVID-19 began, emails...
September 7, 2022
Senior WHO Official Expressed Doubts that COVID-19 Began in Wet Market
[caption id="attachment_18039" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A market in Wuhan is pictured in November 2019. (Photo credit: Arend Kuester)[/caption] A senior World Health Organization expert...
August 31, 2022
[caption id="attachment_17961" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine President Peter Hotez funded research on a chimeric virus that has...
August 9, 2022
American lab says its contract with Wuhan Institute of Virology may have violated the law
[caption id="attachment_17639" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] A Texas congressman voiced concerns about a legal agreement between the Galveston National Laboratory and the Wuhan Institute of...
August 2, 2022
Another missing database? EcoHealth project in Southeast Asia is under construction
[caption id="attachment_17932" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Scientists tasked by the WHO to outline next steps toward investigating the origin of COVID-19 have pointed to bat populations in...
July 27, 2022
Virologist who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance
[caption id="attachment_17873" align="aligncenter" width="2047"] Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin has coauthored several articles with EcoHealth Alliance since 2011. (Photo credit: kris...
July 1, 2022
FOIA reveals another secret call on COVID’s origin. The details are redacted.
[caption id="attachment_17785" align="alignleft" width="2048"] Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar, pictured here in 2019, hosted a series of teleconferences with top virologists discussing whether...
June 2, 2022
Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems
[caption id="attachment_17763" align="aligncenter" width="800"] USAID PREDICT completes sampling visit to Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, 2018; Photo: Richard Nyberg, USAID[/caption] Metabiota,...
May 19, 2022
Virologists push back on more regulation of viruses made more lethal in the lab
[caption id="attachment_17705" align="aligncenter" width="822"] An electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2. (Photo credit: NIH)[/caption] Virologists pushed back on the possibility of tighter...
April 27, 2022