Covid-19 Origins

Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

Gary Ruskin
June 3, 2024

Fauci aide triggers deeper concerns about hidden emails on COVID origins

Emily Kopp
May 22, 2024

Fauci aide allegedly boasted about ability to ‘make emails disappear’ including ‘smoking guns’

Emily Kopp
May 16, 2024

Organization at center of ‘lab leak theory’ suspended from federal funds

Emily Kopp
May 15, 2024

Virus hunter at center of ‘lab leak theory’ grilled by congressional committee

Emily Kopp
May 4, 2024

Science editor says his journal’s ‘wet market’ papers are not conclusive

Emily Kopp
April 16, 2024

FOI lawsuits on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

Gary Ruskin
April 8, 2024

FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

Gary Ruskin
March 27, 2024

USRTK testifies at U.S. Senate hearing on transparency and accountability

Stacy Malkan
March 22, 2024

US scientists proposed to make viruses with unique features of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan

Emily Kopp
January 18, 2024

Scientists at the center of the ‘lab leak’ controversy met with NIH, Fauci

Emily Kopp
January 6, 2024

American scientists misled Pentagon on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Emily Kopp
December 18, 2023

Visual timeline: ‘Proximal Origin’

Emily Kopp
December 6, 2023

Fauci was told of NIH ties to Wuhan lab’s novel coronaviruses by January 2020

Emily Kopp
September 5, 2023

Gain-of-function’ research in Wuhan revealed in Fauci’s emails: Emily Kopp interview

Stacy Malkan
July 25, 2023

Virologist under investigation for misleading on ‘lab leak theory’ briefed the intel community

Emily Kopp
July 10, 2023

‘The CT machines were crashing’: Interview with Wuhan doctor reveals early COVID cases were suppressed

Emily Kopp

Beijing ordered destruction of early coronavirus samples, secret memo shows

Emily Kopp
June 27, 2023

Report shows U.S. intelligence on the Wuhan Institute of Virology is thin

Emily Kopp
June 23, 2023

Biden admin missed deadline to release declassified lab leak docs

Stacy Malkan

U.S. funded discovery of close COVID-19 relative at the center of origins controversy

Karolina Corin
June 16, 2023

State Department cables: Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted classified research

Emily Kopp
June 14, 2023

COVID origin interview: Legacy media doubles down, says no strong evidence for lab leak

Stacy Malkan
May 26, 2023

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

Emily Kopp
May 16, 2023

White House received prescient warning two years before the pandemic

Emily Kopp
May 5, 2023

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

Emily Kopp
April 18, 2023

U.S. health officials discouraged letter seeking Wuhan labs visit

Emily Kopp

Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

Emily Kopp
April 11, 2023

U.S. officials: Criticism of Chinese lab ‘called out actions that we ourselves are doing’

Emily Kopp
April 3, 2023

‘They should do decent science’: Report on raccoon dogs and Covid origins spurs ethics flap

Emily Kopp
March 24, 2023

Congress clears bill to declassify Wuhan Institute of Virology intel

Emily Kopp
March 10, 2023

Congressional memo: Virologists drafted article against the lab leak theory on behalf of Wellcome Trust, NIH

Emily Kopp
March 5, 2023

Wuhan lab denied BSL4 access for SARS work without clear reasoning

Karolina Corin
February 28, 2023

Fauci discussed gain-of-function work with Wuhan collaborator in pandemic’s earliest days, emails suggest

Emily Kopp
February 21, 2023

Emily Kopp interview: NIH leader incorrectly discounts lab leak and mainstream media runs with it

Stacy Malkan
February 15, 2023

Controversial coronavirus research may have continued even after NIH pulled funding

Karolina Corin
February 1, 2023

NIH gain-of-function regulations are vague and secretive, advisers say

Emily Kopp
January 23, 2023

Appeal to Univ. of Sydney to release Prof. Holmes’ records on Covid-19 origins paper

Gary Ruskin
December 13, 2022

Emails show Wuhan lab collaborator played central role in public messaging about COVID-19 origins

Karolina Corin
December 8, 2022

Paper critical of ‘lab leak theory’ cribbed ideas from controversial gain-of-function virologist

Emily Kopp
November 14, 2022

Preprint: COVID-19 shows ‘fingerprint’ of laboratory engineering

Karolina Corin
October 28, 2022

Senate HELP Committee Republicans: ‘Pandemic was, more likely than not, a research-related incident’

Emily Kopp
October 27, 2022

Inspector general closed lab leak theory probe 21 months ago

Emily Kopp
October 6, 2022

Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci emailed about whether NIH funded Wuhan lab before secret call

Emily Kopp
September 7, 2022

Senior WHO official expressed doubts that COVID-19 began in wet market

Karolina Corin
August 31, 2022

Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study

Emily Kopp
August 9, 2022

American lab says its contract with Wuhan Institute of Virology may have violated the law

Emily Kopp
August 2, 2022

Accession Numbers: Malaysia

Emily Kopp
July 27, 2022

Another missing database? EcoHealth project in Southeast Asia is under construction

Emily Kopp

Virologist who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance

Emily Kopp
July 1, 2022

Evidence missing in Covid origin investigation: WHO ‘open’ to probe, EcoHealth president on board

Stacy Malkan
June 16, 2022

Hill TV Live interview: Fauci, top virologists privately considered lab leak theory then turned on it, new docs show

Stacy Malkan
June 7, 2022

FOIA reveals another secret call on COVID’s origin. The details are redacted.

Emily Kopp
June 2, 2022

Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems

Karolina Corin
May 19, 2022

Virologists push back on more regulation of viruses made more lethal in the lab

Emily Kopp
April 27, 2022

U.S. Right to Know confirms a third maximum containment lab in China

Emily Kopp
April 26, 2022

Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab

Emily Kopp
April 20, 2022

Emails raise questions about China’s sway over first WHO mission on COVID-19

Emily Kopp
April 13, 2022

WHO chief Tedros: No dispositive evidence yet on COVID’s origin

Emily Kopp
April 8, 2022

U.S. virologist let Wuhan scientists revise his Congressional briefing

Emily Kopp
April 5, 2022

Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ COVID origin, State Dept. memo says

Emily Kopp
March 28, 2022

Celebrated virus hunter siphoned taxpayer funds for his private ‘Global Virome Project’

Emily Kopp
March 16, 2022

‘What would Jim do?’: U.S. virologist close to Wuhan lab quietly called for investigation

Emily Kopp
March 3, 2022

Why did Wuhan lab director decline trip to Europe before Covid-19 outbreak?

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 24, 2022

EcoHealth Alliance wanted to block disclosure of Covid-19-relevant virus data from China

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 10, 2022

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) meeting minutes

Gary Ruskin
December 31, 2021

Wuhan’s lower biosafety level labs posed greater risk for coronavirus lab leak, experts said

Sainath Suryanarayanan
December 27, 2021

Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2

Shannon Murray
December 2, 2021

Why we are suing the NIH for Covid-19 information

Gary Ruskin
November 8, 2021

Public comments on the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) members

Shannon Murray
October 26, 2021

Zhengli Shi Edits to Widely-Cited EMI Commentary

Shannon Murray
September 28, 2021

How NIH-funded research in China could have led to the COVID-19 pandemic

Shannon Murray
September 17, 2021

Scientists who authored article denying lab engineering of SARS-CoV-2 privately acknowledged possible lab origin, emails show

Shannon Murray
August 11, 2021

Wuhan Institute of Virology has many unreported bat virus samples, collaborating virologist says

Sainath Suryanarayanan
August 10, 2021

Senior Chinese scientist acquired SARS-CoV-2 in lab infection accident, virologist says

Sainath Suryanarayanan
August 5, 2021

Wuhan lab director ordered staff not to discuss Covid-19, State Department cable says, citing blogger

Sainath Suryanarayanan
June 28, 2021

Three State Department cables

Sainath Suryanarayanan
May 27, 2021

Chinese-linked journal editor sought help to rebut Covid-19 lab origin hypothesis

Sainath Suryanarayanan
April 7, 2021

Why we are researching the origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs

Sainath Suryanarayanan
March 18, 2021

Chinese scientists sought to change name of deadly coronavirus to distance it from China

Sainath Suryanarayanan
February 17, 2021

Scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins, emails show

Sainath Suryanarayanan
February 15, 2021

Colorado State University documents on bat pathogen research

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 21, 2021

USRTK asks ODNI to declassify documents about accidents at labs that store dangerous pathogens

Sainath Suryanarayanan
January 8, 2021

Altered datasets raise more questions about reliability of key studies on coronavirus origins

Sainath Suryanarayanan
December 29, 2020
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No peer review for addendum to prominent coronavirus origins study?

Sainath Suryanarayanan
December 18, 2020

New emails show scientists’ deliberations on how to discuss SARS-CoV-2 origins 

Sainath Suryanarayanan
December 14, 2020

Items from coronavirus expert Ralph Baric‘s emails 

Sainath Suryanarayanan

U.S. Right to Know Sues State Department for Documents about Origins of SARS-CoV-2

Gary Ruskin
November 30, 2020

Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Sainath Suryanarayanan
November 24, 2020

EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2

Sainath Suryanarayanan
November 18, 2020

Nature journal adds “Editor’s note” highlighting concerns about the reliability of study linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

Sainath Suryanarayanan
November 12, 2020

Validity of key studies on origin of coronavirus in doubt; science journals investigating

Carey Gillam
November 9, 2020

Nature and PLoS Pathogens probe scientific veracity of key studies linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

Sainath Suryanarayanan

U.S. Right to Know Sues NIH for Documents about Origins of SARS-CoV-2

Gary Ruskin
November 5, 2020

U.S. Right to Know is investigating the origins of Covid-19. We have unearthed and reported on many newsworthy documents. We were the first research group to bring to light important communications regarding uncertainty over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also researching the risks of gain of function research, virus hunting, and mishaps at biolabs where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and manipulated; see our Risky Research page. 

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