Category: Pandemic Ties to CCP

Biden: Some US Intel Members Believe COVID-19 Came from Chinese ‘Laboratory Accident’

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) believes “two likely scenarios” caused the CCP virus outbreak in China, noting that a significant number of officials believe the virus escaped via a “laboratory accident.” His White House-released statement comes in the midst of officials saying they do not believe the virus…


Fauci Says It Would Have Been a ‘Dereliction of Our Duty’ Not to Work With China on Coronavirus Research

Infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday defended the flow of funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for bat coronavirus research, saying it would have been “almost a dereliction of our duty” for the NIH not to collaborate with Chinese scientists to study how the pathogen…


US Calls for New Probe Into CCP Virus Origins Amid Mounting Attention on ‘Lab Leak’ Theory

The United States on Tuesday urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to start a new investigation into the source of the CCP virus, amid growing calls to investigate whether the pandemic may have stemmed from a laboratory accident. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in remarks to the 74th World Health Assembly, a…


UK Government Says WHO Needs To ‘Explore All Possible Theories’ on Origins of CCP Virus

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus must be “robust, transparent, and independent,” and needs to “explore all possible theories,” the UK government said on Monday. The remarks came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman was asked about a report published by The Wall Street Journal…


PolitiFact Quietly Retracts Fact Check Labeling COVID-19 Lab Origin Theory as ‘Debunked Conspiracy’

PolitiFact has quietly retracted a Sept. 2020 fact check that labeled a Hong Kong virologist’s claim that COVID-19 originated in a lab as inaccurate and a “debunked conspiracy theory.” “The claim is inaccurate and ridiculous,” now-archived fact check previously said. “We rate it Pants on Fire!” In an updated editor’s note published Monday, PolitiFact explained…


House Intelligence Republicans Point to Wuhan Lab as CCP Virus Origin

Republican lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee said that the CCP virus was more likely to originate from a Chinese lab than from an animal, according to their interim report published on Wednesday. “There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence … to support a lab leak as the origination of COVID-19,” stated the report, which was led…


Nunes Urges Biden to Order Probe of CCP Virus Origin

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) urged President Joe Biden on May 16 to order a whole-of-government investigation into the origins of the CCP virus. According to a letter from Nunes to the commander-in-chief (pdf), Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are concerned by circumstantial evidence that the virus could have leaked from…


Leading Scientists Call for ‘Proper Investigation’ of CCP Virus Lab Origin Theory

A group of international researchers are pushing for a “proper investigation” into the origins of COVID-19, including examining the lab accident theory that a World Health Organization (WHO) probe previously dismissed. The WHO-led mission in Wuhan, which released its findings in late March, did not give “balanced consideration” to the theory that the CCP (Chinese…


CCP Virus Pandemic Was ‘Preventable Disaster’ and ‘Terrible Wake-up Call’: WHO-Commissioned Panel

A panel of independent experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a scathing rebuke of the global reaction to COVID-19, calling the outbreak a “preventable disaster” and a “terrible wake-up call” that exposed weak links along the entire chain of pandemic preparation and response. In a report issued Wednesday (pdf), the Independent Panel…


Brazil’s President Suggests CCP Virus Created to Wage ‘Biological Warfare’

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro floated the idea that the CCP virus may have been a lab product created to carry out “biological warfare.” “It’s a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn’t have,” he said in a speech on May 5. “But…