Covid-19 Origins

Congress clears bill to declassify Wuhan Institute of Virology intel

Emily Kopp
March 10, 2023

Congressional memo: Virologists drafted article against the lab leak theory on behalf of Wellcome Trust, NIH

Emily Kopp
March 5, 2023

Wuhan lab denied BSL4 access for SARS work without clear reasoning

Karolina Corin
February 28, 2023

Fauci discussed gain-of-function work with Wuhan collaborator in pandemic’s earliest days, emails suggest

Emily Kopp
February 21, 2023

Emily Kopp interview: NIH leader incorrectly discounts lab leak and mainstream media runs with it

Stacy Malkan
February 15, 2023

Controversial coronavirus research may have continued even after NIH pulled funding

Karolina Corin
February 1, 2023

NIH gain-of-function regulations are vague and secretive, advisers say

Emily Kopp
January 23, 2023

Appeal to Univ. of Sydney to release Prof. Holmes’ records on Covid-19 origins paper

Gary Ruskin
December 13, 2022

Emails show Wuhan lab collaborator played central role in public messaging about COVID-19 origins

Karolina Corin
December 8, 2022

Paper critical of ‘lab leak theory’ cribbed ideas from controversial gain-of-function virologist

Emily Kopp
November 14, 2022

Preprint: COVID-19 shows ‘fingerprint’ of laboratory engineering

Karolina Corin
October 28, 2022

Senate HELP Committee Republicans: ‘Pandemic was, more likely than not, a research-related incident’

Emily Kopp
October 27, 2022

Inspector general closed lab leak theory probe 21 months ago

Emily Kopp
October 6, 2022

Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci emailed about whether NIH funded Wuhan lab before secret call

Emily Kopp
September 7, 2022

Senior WHO official expressed doubts that COVID-19 began in wet market

Karolina Corin
August 31, 2022

Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study

Emily Kopp
August 9, 2022

American lab says its contract with Wuhan Institute of Virology may have violated the law

Emily Kopp
August 2, 2022

Accession Numbers: Malaysia

Emily Kopp
July 27, 2022

Another missing database? EcoHealth project in Southeast Asia is under construction

Emily Kopp

Virologist who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance

Emily Kopp
July 1, 2022

Evidence missing in Covid origin investigation: WHO ‘open’ to probe, EcoHealth president on board

Stacy Malkan
June 16, 2022

Hill TV Live interview: Fauci, top virologists privately considered lab leak theory then turned on it, new docs show

Stacy Malkan
June 7, 2022

FOIA reveals another secret call on COVID’s origin. The details are redacted.

Emily Kopp
June 2, 2022

Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems

Karolina Corin
May 19, 2022

Virologists push back on more regulation of viruses made more lethal in the lab

Emily Kopp
April 27, 2022

U.S. Right to Know confirms a third maximum containment lab in China

Emily Kopp
April 26, 2022

Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab

Emily Kopp
April 20, 2022

Emails raise questions about China’s sway over first WHO mission on COVID-19

Emily Kopp
April 13, 2022

WHO chief Tedros: No dispositive evidence yet on COVID’s origin

Emily Kopp
April 8, 2022

U.S. virologist let Wuhan scientists revise his Congressional briefing

Emily Kopp
April 5, 2022

Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ COVID origin, State Dept. memo says

Emily Kopp
March 28, 2022

Celebrated virus hunter siphoned taxpayer funds for his private ‘Global Virome Project’

Emily Kopp
March 16, 2022

‘What would Jim do?’: U.S. virologist close to Wuhan lab quietly called for investigation

Emily Kopp
March 3, 2022

Why did Wuhan lab director decline trip to Europe before Covid-19 outbreak?

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 24, 2022

EcoHealth Alliance wanted to block disclosure of Covid-19-relevant virus data from China

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 10, 2022

Wuhan’s lower biosafety level labs posed greater risk for coronavirus lab leak, experts said

Sainath Suryanarayanan
December 27, 2021

Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2

Shannon Murray
December 2, 2021

Why we are suing the NIH for Covid-19 information

Gary Ruskin
November 8, 2021

Public comments on the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) members

Shannon Murray
October 26, 2021

Zhengli Shi Edits to Widely-Cited EMI Commentary

Shannon Murray
September 28, 2021

How NIH-funded research in China could have led to the COVID-19 pandemic

Shannon Murray
September 17, 2021

Scientists who authored article denying lab engineering of SARS-CoV-2 privately acknowledged possible lab origin, emails show

Shannon Murray
August 11, 2021
Some people wearing uniforms and masks standing near the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Wuhan Institute of Virology has many unreported bat virus samples, collaborating virologist says

Sainath Suryanarayanan
August 10, 2021

Senior Chinese scientist acquired SARS-CoV-2 in lab infection accident, virologist says

Sainath Suryanarayanan
August 5, 2021

Wuhan lab director ordered staff not to discuss Covid-19, State Department cable says, citing blogger

Sainath Suryanarayanan
June 28, 2021

Three State Department cables

Sainath Suryanarayanan
May 27, 2021

Chinese-linked journal editor sought help to rebut Covid-19 lab origin hypothesis

Sainath Suryanarayanan
April 7, 2021

Why we are researching the origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

Sainath Suryanarayanan
March 18, 2021

Chinese scientists sought to change name of deadly coronavirus to distance it from China

Sainath Suryanarayanan
February 17, 2021

Scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins, emails show

Sainath Suryanarayanan
February 15, 2021

U.S. Right to Know is investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. We obtain and report on documents regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We also research the risks of gain-of-function research, virus hunting, and mishaps at biolabs where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and manipulated. See our Risky Research page. 

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