Category: COVID-19 origins

Virologists Defend Paper on Origins of COVID-19 at Contentious House Hearing

A 2020 paper studying the early origins of the COVID-19 outbreak was the subject of an often contentious July 11 House hearing investigating the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” the paper states. Those words, written by five virologists in the 2020 paper, prompted…


Virologists Defend Paper on COVID-19 Origins at Contentious House Hearing

A 2020 paper studying the early origins of the COVID-19 outbreak was the focus of an often contentious July 11 House hearing investigating the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” the paper states. Those words, written by five virologists in the 2020 paper, prompted…


US Declassifies COVID-19 Origins Report

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally released a government report on the origins of COVID-19 on Friday. The chairs of the House Intelligence and Coronavirus Pandemic committees say the report lends credence to the theory that the virus may have originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Congress passed legislation earlier this year…


Biden Admin Misses Deadline to Reveal Intelligence Findings on COVID-19 Origins

A June 18 deadline for President Joe Biden’s administration to declassify and release documents pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 has come and gone without a clear response. In March, lawmakers passed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The legislation passed unanimously in the Senate before a 419-0 voice vote in…


Republicans Demand Biden Declassify COVID-19 Origins Documents as Deadline Looms

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) are tapping their watches at President Joe Biden as a deadline looms for his administration to declassify all of its documents on the origins of COVID-19. In March, Biden signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which requires the Director of National Intelligence to “declassify any and…


Fauci, Scientists With Ties to Chinese Laboratory Briefed Intelligence Officials on Origins of COVID-19: Documents

Dr. Anthony Fauci and scientists connected to the Chinese laboratory located in the same city where the first COVID-19 cases were detected briefed top U.S. intelligence officials about the origins of COVID-19 in early 2020, according to newly obtained emails. Fauci, Dr. Peter Daszak, and Ralph Baric were among those selected to brief a group…


Chinese Regime Will Face Retribution for COVID-19 Origins, Trump Declares

Former President Donald Trump has called for “retribution” against the Chinese regime now that “the world is finally admitting the truth” that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. In a new campaign video shared on Truth Social, Trump declared that it is time to hold China accountable for the…


Republicans Revive Push to Allow Americans to Sue CCP Over COVID-19

Legislative efforts to enable Americans to sue the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the COVID-19 pandemic have been renewed on Capitol Hill by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas). Under legislation the congressmen introduced on March 10, the Chinese communist regime could be held legally liable for misrepresenting “the seriousness and nature” of…


NTD Evening News (March 10): House Freedom Caucus Unveils Budget to ‘Shrink DC’; COVID-19 Origins Bill Heads to Biden’s Desk

Democrats on Capitol Hill welcomed President Joe Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget, while the House Freedom Caucus unveiled a plan on March 10 meant to cut money from government agencies. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also faced questions from lawmakers over Biden’s budget proposal. In a rare bipartisan moment, the House unanimously passed a bill to declassify…


Lawmakers and Scientists Call for More Answers After House Hearing on COVID Origin

Lawmakers and medical experts are calling for continued scrutiny into the origins of COVID-19 following a Wednesday hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. During the Wednesday hearing, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield; Dr. Jamie Metzl, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; author and…