A former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6, has said it will be hard to prove China’s virology lab in Wuhan was responsible for the coronavirus pandemic because “a lot of data has probably been destroyed or made to disappear” and said the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) appears to be “a lost cause”.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has requested access to Chinese coronavirus samples from Italy allegedly showing the virus circulating there in fall 2019, China’s state-run Global Times confirmed on Wednesday, in an attempt to investigate the potential of Italy, not China, being the origin location of the virus.
The man responsible for steering U.S. government funding to the Wuhan Institution of Virology thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci for publicly dismissing the theory coronavirus may have leaked from the lab.
What may prove to be the first case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu passing to a human has been detected in China, reports said Tuesday, as local health authorities assured the world the risk of large-scale spread is “low.”
At the World Health Assembly in Switzerland on Friday, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) awarded its 2021 Sasakawa Prize to Dr. Wu Hao, head of the Fangzhuang Community Health Service Center in Beijing. Chinese state media, and its tightly controlled social media, trumpeted the award as vindication for China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Big Tech companies should be regulated as telecommunications companies are to combat political censorship, Rep. Jason Smith said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki began the week by dismissing the idea of an investigation led by the United States
The United States “should immediately launch a virus origins-tracing study on itself” and grant global scientists access to its military laboratories, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian asserted Thursday.
Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans, a member of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) task force that visited China in March to investigate the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, said Tuesday that another “research” trip to China would be useful, but should be kept separate from any effort to “audit” false or incomplete data provided by the Chinese.
Scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology published a report concluding that the virus most likely originated in pangolins, a study Chinese state media insisted on Tuesday made it “unlikely” that the virus leaked from the facility.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) doubled down Monday following resurfacing questions on the origins of the Chinese coronavirus, noting that the lab leak hypothesis was “always reasonable” but quickly denounced as a conspiracy theory by “reporters & activists in white lab coats.”
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News on Monday that the federal government should stop funding viral research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Pompeo strongly suggested that the COVID-19 virus that sparked a deadly global pandemic escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
During an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued there was evidence that indicated the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic originate from a lab in Wuhan in China.
Prominent Baghdad physician Dr. Hamid al-Lami was arrested on Tuesday morning for making “unscientific statements” about the Wuhan coronavirus that contributed to “spreading a dangerous disease.”
China’s top infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan warned once again on Thursday that the Communist Party’s efforts to vaccinate its citizens against Chinese coronavirus are “lagging” behind countries like the United States and Israel.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said that she wants to understand how the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan happened, “But to somehow impugn the credibility of Dr. Fauci for whatever reason is just completely unacceptable.” Host Anderson
Fauci insisted that no taxpayer funds went to bat coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China, despite evidence that they did.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, claimed on Tuesday that “Qingfei paidu soup,” a type of soup used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), can reduce the chances of death for a Chinese coronavirus patient by
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) stated that the National Institutes of Health is acting the same way as Communist China by stonewalling on whether taxpayer dollars funded research in Wuhan that
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last week published a lengthy report from New York Times, Nature, and Science writer Nicholas Wade that strongly argued for the theory that Chinese coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday remarks by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggesting that “chemical, bacterial, and radiological warfare” could explain the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, appearing to accuse Beijing of launching an attack.
States who voted for President Joe Biden in the last election lost double the number of jobs than states who voted for former President Donald Trump, during the pandemic, according to a recent study.
Chinese government media outlets predicted a “travel bonanza” on May Day, or May 1, on Wednesday as “red” tourists prepare to visit historic sites to celebrate 100 years of mass killings, poverty, and repression under the Chinese Communist Party.
Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021 on Thursday to require President Joe Biden’s administration to declassify information relating to the origin of the coronavirus.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday attacked World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for urging further investigation into the possibility that a laboratory leak in Wuhan was the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Chinese Communist Party passed a law on Thursday that will result in the construction of three research laboratories at biosafety level-4, approved for research on the most dangerous pathogens.
China’s state-run Global Times publication raised the possibility in a long-form “investigation” on Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus originated in Europe and arrived in Wuhan in October 2019, when the city hosted the World Military Games.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday recommended a ban on the sale of live wild animals at food markets.
China’s top disease control official admitted Sunday the country’s domestic coronavirus vaccines have low effectiveness and the Communist government is considering how to give them a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers
China’s Global Times, a newspaper published by the government, dismissed Thursday the widely accepted consensus that the Chinese coronavirus originated in Hubei province, China, as a “conspiracy theory” that did not deserve free speech safeguards.
The secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said in an interview Thursday that American “military biology research” may account for the eruption of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, central China.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday proclaimed tourism to Wuhan, ground zero for the global coronavirus pandemic, has “rebounded” in the year since heavy lockdown orders were lifted and the city is now witnessing a “travel blowout.”
Nairobi-based Vietnamese biologist Hung Nguyen-Viet, a food safety expert who was among the ten scientists sent by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to visit Wuhan, China, in late January, said Monday that he fears wildlife products sold at the now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan might have come from areas with large populations of virus-carrying bats, possibly spreading the coronavirus from animals to humans through an intermediate species.
Chinese state media seized on the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) controversial final report to declare the theory of Chinese laboratory origins for the coronavirus has been completely ruled out and W.H.O. should now begin checking the laboratories of other countries to see if any of them created the Chinese coronavirus and sent it to China.
Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adviser to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on Monday joined the growing number of scientists and political leaders around the world who questioned the credibility of W.H.O.’s report on the origins of the coronavirus.
On the heels of the World Health Organization releasing the findings of its COVID-19-origins investigation, the United States, the European Union and 13 other countries called on the U.N. health body to conduct a second probe while criticizing China’s lack of cooperation.
On the same day the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) finally released its report into the origins of coronavirus and posited the theory China may not be responsible, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revived a claim it could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan as all options remain open.
The long-awaited World Health Organization (W.H.O.) report on the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus was released on Tuesday, after canceling the release of an interim report in early March. The final report is lengthy but inconclusive, laying out numerous theories for the origin of the virus but failing to conclusively prove or disprove any of them. Most intriguingly, the authors circle around the shortage of hard evidence for zoonotic transmission – animals to human – even though they insist it is the most likely scenario.
The former president said in a statement Monday that both Fauci and Birx were “two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations.”
