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Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

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Read our timeline of evidence surrounding the Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2, one of the most influential scientific articles in history (with new updates).

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

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On February 11, 2020, Anthony Fauci met with American virologist Ralph Barici. A newly unearthed email provides a glimpse into what Fauci and Baric discussed.

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

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Top virologists may have continued privately discussing “all theories” of the pandemic’s origin in the days after they began outlining an influential article that dismissed the lab leak theory in February 2020, an email obtained by U.S. Right to Know suggests. The group — led by Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar and University of Sydney FOIA reveals another secret call on COVID’s origin. The details are redacted.

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

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A virologist who coauthored a paper marginalizing the lab leak theory did not disclose his ties to the research group at the center of it. Director of Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity Ian Lipkin has often worked with EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based collaborator of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the group confirmed in Virologist who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance

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

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In the earliest days of the pandemic, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins emailed about coronaviruses under study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and about whether they had steered money to the lab, an email obtained by U.S. Right to Know shows. Collins, then leader of the National Institutes of Health, and Fauci, leader of Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci emailed about whether NIH funded Wuhan lab before secret call