Category: Coronavirus In-Depth

Chinese State Media Again Dials Up Propaganda Blaming US as Virus Origin

With the U.S. intelligence community due to produce a report on COVID-19 origins in weeks, the Chinese regime has unleashed a new wave of propaganda and disinformation aimed at painting the United States as the pandemic source. Over the past few weeks, the regime has redoubled efforts to link the virus to the U.S. Army…


How Lockdowns Benefited Beijing and Why Its Push for the Measure Needs Scrutiny

News Analysis From the World Health Organization’s early China-friendly messaging on the virus outbreak to influential papers dismissing the theory that the virus originated in a laboratory, Beijing’s sway over scientific discussions has come under increasing scrutiny during the pandemic. Some observers are also pointing out the communist regime’s footprint in the push for one…


France Warned US in 2015 About Wuhan Lab It Helped Build, Former COVID-19 Investigator Claims

The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration. In 2015, French intelligence officials warned…


Mask Mandate for Children Is Not Backed by Science: New Jersey Senators

New Jersey senators held a hearing last week to explore whether the science supports forcing children to wear face masks in schools amid growing concerns regarding the efficacy and negative effects of these masks. Scientists testified about the effectiveness of masks in preventing the spread of COVID-19, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist…


Germany Calls on China to Allow Further Investigations Into COVID Origins

BERLIN—German Health Minister Jens Spahn called on China to make it possible for investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue, saying more information was needed. Speaking during a visit to the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, Spahn also announced a 260 million euro donation to WHO’s ACT-Accelerator program, which…


Yuri Deigin: How the Chinese Communist Party Covered Up COVID and the Current Consensus on the Virus Origin

More than a year after the pandemic broke out in Wuhan, China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still hasn’t given a clear answer as to what happened. But citizen journalists, scientists, and sleuths on the internet have been working around the clock to find the answer for themselves. Yuri Deigin, CEO of Youthereum, was one…


Evidence Reveals That Military Team Collaborated With Lab Where COVID-19 Pandemic Originated

The Chinese regime has said its controversial virology institute had no relationship with the military, but the institute worked with military leaders on a government-sponsored project for almost a decade. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) participated in a project, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)—a regime-funded scientific research institution—from 2012 to…


Studies: Hundreds of Thousands Infected With COVID-19 in Wuhan in 2020, Patient Zero Emerged October 2019

Between 622,800 to 968,800 people in Wuhan had COVID-19 by April 2020, and the first case emerged between mid-October and mid-November 2019, according to two new studies. “6·92 percent of a cross-sectional sample of the population of Wuhan developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, with 39·8 percent of this population seroconverting to have neutralising antibodies,” wrote the…


A Year After Severe Wuhan Outbreak, China Promotes Propaganda Film Praising Authorities

News analysis Roughly one year after the CCP virus spread across China, the Chinese central government recently started a propaganda blitz to portray the outbreak in Wuhan—the epidemic ground zero—as a story of triumph over adversity. A joint-production between state-run and private media companies, the movie “Days and Nights in Wuhan” was made under the…


Trump Says Vaccine Rollout Going ‘Very Smoothly,’ Hails Quick Development as ‘Great Miracle’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the distribution of the two newly approved COVID-19 vaccines is going “very smoothly,” calling the success of his administration in surging vaccine development a “great miracle.” “Distribution of both vaccines is going very smoothly,” the president wrote in a tweet. “Amazing how many people are being vaccinated, record numbers.”…