Zhengli Shi Edits to Widely-Cited EMI Commentary
A new document shows Zhengli Shi’s edits to a draft of the Emerging Microbes & Infections commentary, “No credible evidence supporting the claims of the laboratory engineering of...
September 28, 2021
How NIH-funded research in China could have led to the COVID-19 pandemic
A multimillion-dollar bat coronavirus research grant, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was made public last week, revealing that researchers based in Wuhan, China had manipulated...
September 17, 2021
Four prominent U.S. virologists who published a widely cited commentary strongly rebutting the theory that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, might have been engineered in a lab...
August 11, 2021
Wuhan Institute of Virology has many unreported bat virus samples, collaborating virologist says
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) “has many bat samples not yet worked out or results published,” according to emails of Ohio State University virologist Shan-Lu Liu, which were obtained by...
August 10, 2021
Senior Chinese scientist acquired SARS-CoV-2 in lab infection accident, virologist says
In what may be the first known case of a lab-acquired infection with the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, a senior scientist was infected with SARS-CoV-2 in a prestigious laboratory in Beijing...
August 5, 2021
The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) ordered staff in January 2020 to “not discuss COVID-19,” according to a Guangzhou-based blogger’s social media post that is cited in a...
June 28, 2021
On May 24, 2021, the U.S. State Department released more records in response to our FOIA lawsuit. These may be of interest: “PRC claims of COVID transmission via cold chain food imports...
May 27, 2021
Chinese-linked journal editor sought help to rebut Covid-19 lab origin hypothesis
The editor-in-chief of a scientific journal with ties to China commissioned a commentary to refute the hypothesis that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab, according to emails obtained...
April 7, 2021
Chinese scientists sought to change name of deadly coronavirus to distance it from China
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of scientists affiliated with China’s government tried to distance the coronavirus from China by influencing its official naming. Nodding to the...
February 17, 2021
Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, the head of an organization involved in research that genetically manipulates coronaviruses, discussed hiding his role in a statement published last year...
February 15, 2021