Shi Zhengli

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

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

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

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.

US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan lab

An analysis by the U.S. Defense Department’s intelligence agency concluded five years ago that the virus that caused COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese laboratory and later escaped to spawn the pandemic that eventually killed millions of people, recently released documents obtained by US Right to Know show.