Category: Pandemic Ties to CCP

PCR Sales Soared in Wuhan Before First Official COVID-19 Cases Publicised: Report

Spending on PCR tests in Wuhan soared several months before the first official reporting of COVID-19 cases in China, suggesting the virus was already circulating in communities during the northern summer (June to August) in 2019 before it was made public. An Australian cybersecurity firm, Internet 2.0, tracked the sales of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)…


GOP Senators Demand NIH Provide Answers on Deletion Of COVID-19 Data

A group of Republican senators on Thursday again demanded that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide answers to reports that vital COVID-19 data was deleted from a key government database at the request of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official. In a follow-up letter (pdf) to NIH Director Francis Collins, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley…


New York Times Pulled Ad Holding China Accountable for Virus Outbreak; China’s Evergrande Is ‘Too Big to Fail’?

The New York Times pulled an ad at the last minute in March 2020. But for what reason? I spoke with Brett Kingstone, a real estate developer from Florida and the client who paid for the ad. He says that after the entire editorial procedure and approval from the paper, it was pulled from print…


Newly-Released Documents Detail US-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Institute of Virology: Report

New documents have been released detailing U.S.-funded research on various types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the first outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus occurred. More than 900 pages of materials were obtained by The Intercept in connection with a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the publication against the National…


Investigation Into COVID-19 Origin Should Continue After Inconclusive US Intelligence Report: Expert

The investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic should continue, said Thomas Wright, a senior fellow of foreign policy at Washington-based think tank Brookings Institution, after U.S. intelligence agencies earlier this week delivered an inconclusive assessment on the issue to President Joe Biden. “It’s important to get to the bottom of it,” Wright told…


WHO Urges China to Share Raw Data on Early COVID-19 Cases, Says It’s ‘Vitally Important’ to Prevent Future Pandemics

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Aug. 12 urged China to share raw data from the earliest COVID-19 cases, saying it is “vitally important to know how the COVID-19 pandemic began” and to set an example for establishing the origins of all future animal-human spillover events. In a statement on Thursday, the WHO repeatedly stressed the importance of…


GOP Report Says Wuhan Lab Leak Source of CCP Virus

House Republicans have released an addendum to their Origins of COVID-19 (pdf) report released last year, concluding that evidence points to a leak from a Chinese lab as the source of the outbreak. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday released the updated (pdf) report, which was authored…


GOP Report Points to Wuhan Lab Leak as Source of CCP Virus

House Republicans have released an addendum to their Origins of COVID-19 (pdf) report released last year, concluding that evidence points to a leak from a Chinese lab as the source of the outbreak. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the updated (pdf) report on Aug. 2, which was…


Republicans on House Science Committee Urge Probe Into CCP Virus Origins

Republicans on a House committee on Friday urged for a bipartisan Congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19, citing stonewalling by China’s communist authorities who have refused to share key information about the outbreak. On Friday, GOP members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology sent a letter calling for the probe to…


Bipartisan Group of Senators Demand ‘Thorough Review’ of US Funding for Chinese Virus Research

A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Joe Biden to make sure the United States completes a “thorough review” of U.S. funding for Chinese virus research. “The United States must complete a thorough review of existing and prior U.S. government support or funding for research collaboration with the PRC related to gain-of-function, synthetic…