Kristian Andersen

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

Hearing exposes how politics slowed U.S. investigation into COVID origins

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The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in a hearing Tuesday continued to peel back the curtain on the sluggish early U.S. investigation into the origins of COVID-19. More than three years have passed since a highly transmissible novel coronavirus first emerged out of Wuhan, China, yet key details about the pandemic’s origin are still Hearing exposes how politics slowed U.S. investigation into COVID origins