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More than 900 pages of materials related to US.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept.NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as...

For months, conservative websites like ours have been mocked, ridiculed, and issued “fake news” violations by Facebook “fact-checkers” like the activist “fact-checking” site Science Feedback for daring to suggest that COVID-19 was created in and somehow released from the Wuhan Virology Lab.On September 12, 2020, we received a “fake news” violation for writing an article about a Chinese virologist who fled Beijing out of fear for her safety after claiming COVID-19 was manufactured in the Wuhan Lab.From our article: China’s only biosafety level-4 super laboratory is only a few miles away from the Wuhan wet market, where Chinese officials claim...

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say there is "significant circumstantial evidence" that the COVID-19 outbreak stemmed from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, urging the federal government to put "more pressure on China" to allow for a "full, credible investigation" into the source of the global pandemic. Republicans pointed to China’s "history of research lab leaks resulting in infections," and warnings from U.S. diplomats in China as early as 2017 that the Wuhan lab was conducting "dangerous research" on coronaviruses without following "necessary safety protocols, risking the accidental outbreak of a pandemic."

We’ve learned a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the last year and a half but we have little evidence on its origin. The origin story for Covid-19 is profoundly important if we are to understand the virus and how it works. That, in turn, could prevent the next pandemic. Animals have been transmitting their diseases to humans since we began to domesticate them — about 11,000 years ago. So when many reputable scientists tell us that the coronavirus probably originated in bats and was transmitted to humans in some unknown way, it makes perfect sense. But there was no...