FOI lawsuits on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative public health group, has filed four lawsuits against federal agencies for violating provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuits are...
October 14, 2021
Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
Here is a reading list 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 (GOF)...
October 14, 2021
FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
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...
October 12, 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