Beijing’s Secret Covid Lab Leak Probe
China's ex-head of the country's equivalent of the CDC says the lab leak was investigated by Government-backed experts. Not a lie created by anti-China forces, then, which is still China's official position.
China's ex-head of the country's equivalent of the CDC says the lab leak was investigated by Government-backed experts. Not a lie created by anti-China forces, then, which is still China's official position.
The U.S. Government has awarded $2.9m to the notorious EcoHealth Alliance to resume its risky bat virus research – but with major restrictions including a ban on GOF and working in China.
Chinese researchers may have begun developing two Covid vaccines in November 2019, before the official start of the outbreak, a U.S. Senate report has claimed.
Joe Biden signed on Monday a new law requiring all U.S. intelligence agencies to release all documents relating to the origins of COVID-19 within 90 days – but redacted for 'national security'.
Why does the ample evidence of German involvement in virus research at Wuhan not merit at least the same degree of scrutiny as U.S. connections? Robert Kogon investigates.
The lab leak is back in the news as a U.S. intelligence agency alters its assessment to state that the coronavirus likely originated from a laboratory leak. But how much does this really change about what we know?
The most common argument that China is responsible for the coronavirus is that it has covered up the origins and refused to cooperate in investigations. How much truth is there in these allegations?
The case for a lab leak seems robust: the virus is plainly engineered and first emerged in a city with a major virus lab. But in fact the evidence the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology just isn't there.
When did the coronavirus first appear? The evidence from testing and sequencing of stored samples suggests it emerged some time between July and November 2019 and circulated silently across the globe during that winter.
When asked about a possible lab leak in a November 2021 interview, Christian Drosten insisted that “I have no personal connection to the people in Wuhan". This photo with the WIV's Shi Zhengli may suggest otherwise.
