Freedom of Information Act

FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

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For more information about our investigation, see our biohazards page. You can read our reporting here on the documents we have obtained so far from Freedom of Information requests. The documents are posted below in approximately the chronological order in which we received them. In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

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

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April 20, 3:40 p.m.: This story has been updated with comment from UTMB. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has the right to ask a partnering lab in the U.S. to destroy all records of their work, according to a legal document obtained by U.S. Right to Know. A memorandum of understanding between the Wuhan lab Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab

How Fauci, scientists with ties to Wuhan lab persuaded the intelligence community COVID had a natural origin

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Scientists with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — including Anthony Fauci — steered the U.S. national security state away from hypotheses about the origins of COVID-19 that could implicate their research, emails obtained through FOIA show.