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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.

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