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Cuomo finally forced to tell whole truth about COVID-19 decisions that cost thousands of lives

By: Janice Dean — June 10th 2024 at 04:00
Former NY Gov. Cuomo goes before Congress to tell them the whole truth about COVID-19 decisions. His state forced COVID patients into nursing homes and that cost thousands of lives.

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Dem Rep. Raskin: Dr. Fauci Is 'Not a Partisan Actor, He’s Just a Scientist'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key — June 8th 2024 at 15:43

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Saturday on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" that former White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci is not a "partisan actor."

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Celebrity Trainer Jillian Michaels: 'How Is Trump Going to Jail, but Fauci Isn’t?'

By: Paul Bois · Paul Bois — June 7th 2024 at 05:27

Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels (The Biggest Loser) openly wondered why former President Donald Trump might be going to jail but not former White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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Short questions with Dana Perino for Dr. Janette Nesheiwat

By: Dana Perino — June 6th 2024 at 03:00
Fox News medical contributor shares how she got started in medicine, the traits most essential for health care leadership — and what she wished she knew when she was younger.

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Feds Charge 47 Somali Immigrants with Stealing $250M in Food Aid from Children

By: Warner Todd Huston · Warner Todd Huston — June 5th 2024 at 13:31

Federal prosecutors have charged 47 Somali Muslim immigrants in Minnesota for skimming $250 million from a coronavirus relief program.

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LAURA INGRAHAM: We can never let a Fauci happen to the US again

By: Fox News Staff — June 4th 2024 at 05:31
Fox News host Laura Ingraham criticizes Dr. Anthony Fauci after his congressional testimony Monday, saying her 'spidey-senses' about the 'scandemic' were correct.

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Anthony Fauci Dismisses Allegations of Downplaying Coronavirus Lab Leak Theory: 'None on My Part'

By: Elizabeth Weibel · Elizabeth Weibel — June 3rd 2024 at 22:22

Anthony Fauci on Monday dismissed allegations that he downplayed theories that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

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Dem Rep. Ruiz: 6 Feet COVID Rule Baseless, But 'They Had to Pick an Arbitrary Number' So People Would 'Understand'

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — June 3rd 2024 at 19:40

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Ranking Member Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) acknowledged that there wasn’t any evidence for six feet social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic but defended the guidelines because “they

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Dem Rep. Ruiz: Lab Leak Dismissed Because It Was Part of Unfair Criticism of Officials That Hurts Trust, Endangers Lives

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — June 3rd 2024 at 19:40

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Ranking Member Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) responded to a question on the squelching of the lab leak theory for the origins of COVID-19 by acknowledging that the theory

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Off on Democrats for Accusing GOP of Worshipping 'Convicted Felon' Trump

By: Hannah Knudsen · Hannah Knudsen — June 3rd 2024 at 17:12

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went off on Democrats for accusing her and other Republicans of worshipping "convicted felon" Donald Trump.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Fauci for Dog Experiments, Masking Children: 'Your Repulsive, Evil Science'

By: Hannah Knudsen · Hannah Knudsen — June 3rd 2024 at 13:34

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) ripped Dr. Anthony Fauci during his testimony before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday, blasting him on a range of topics — from dog experiments to masking children in schools — and questioning his "so-called science."

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Anthony Fauci: Effectiveness of Coronavirus Vaccines a 'Complicated Issue'

By: Hannah Knudsen · Hannah Knudsen — June 3rd 2024 at 10:44

The effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines -- as they did not prevent transmission of the coronavirus, as originally pitched -- is a "complicated issue," Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a line of questioning before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday.

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Watch Live: Anthony Fauci Testifies over Pandemic Response

By: Breitbart News · Breitbart News — June 3rd 2024 at 09:14

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will testify before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about the response to the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, June 3.

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Fauci: I Made It All Up

— June 2nd 2024 at 16:11

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Biden Health Chief Says W.H.O. on Track for a 'Good Deal' on Pandemics

By: Frances Martel · Frances Martel — May 30th 2024 at 08:21

American Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters on Wednesday that he is optimistic the member nations of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) will agree on a framework to respond to future pandemics, despite the collapsed of talks on a proposed "pandemic treaty" this week.

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Xi Jinping Concedes China’s Job Market Is in ‘Chaos,’ Demands Underlings Fix the Economy

By: John Hayward · John Hayward — May 29th 2024 at 14:36

Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping admitted at a Politburo session on Monday that China’s job market is in “chaos.”

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Germany Ends Coronavirus Vaccine Mandate for Military Members

By: Breitbart London · Breitbart London — May 29th 2024 at 10:18

Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military service personel to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after being in place since late 2021.

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W.H.O. Study: Pandemic 'Wiped Out Nearly a Decade of Progress' on Life Expectancy

By: Frances Martel · Frances Martel — May 27th 2024 at 14:58

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a study this weekend documenting a dramatic decline in global life expectancy to 2012 levels immediately following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

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New Jersey woman goes missing, latest tragedy for mother who lost two sons: 'Unimaginable'

By: Michael Dorgan — May 25th 2024 at 15:19
A mother is asking for the public's help to find her missing daughter, Danielle Lopez of New Jersey, after a series of "unimaginable" tragedies to befall the family.

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Disgraced EcoHealth Alliance reaped nearly $100M in taxpayer funds since 2008

By: Kyle Morris — May 25th 2024 at 14:30
EcoHealth Alliance – a U.S.-based nonprofit with a stated mission of preventing pandemics – received upwards of $90 million dollars from the federal government over the last 16 years.

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What to know about the new 'FLiRT' COVID variants

— May 24th 2024 at 09:21
The “FLiRT" variants of COVID have been the primary strains of the virus circulating globally this year, but so far experts don't believe them to be significantly more dangerous.

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W.H.O. Pushes to Seal Global Pandemic Treaty as Closed-Door Talks Conclude

By: Simon Kent · Simon Kent — May 24th 2024 at 04:39

The World Health Organization's (W.H.O.) drive to seal a global pandemic treaty will conclude Friday after weeks of closed-door talks in Geneva, Switzerland.

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GREG GUTFELD: Mariannette Miller-Meeks 'missed an opportunity' to grill COVID era official on the lives ruined

By: Greg Gutfeld — May 23rd 2024 at 22:45
"Gutfeld!" host Greg Gutfeld criticized Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks's, R-Iowa, questioning of Dr. David Morens during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing.

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U.S. Bars Peter Daszak from Funding for ‘Improper Conduct’ at Wuhan Lab

By: John Hayward · John Hayward — May 23rd 2024 at 14:50

The administration of President Joe Biden suspended Peter Daszak, a key figure in the still-murky evolution of the Wuhan coronavirus, and his EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) from federal funding for failing to adequately monitor the activities it supported at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

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Judge orders former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to forfeit condo; sentencing underway

By: Timothy Nerozzi — May 23rd 2024 at 11:02
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby was order Thursday to forfeit a Florida condo, as a federal judge prepared to sentence her for perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.

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Ex-Fauci top adviser offers apologies and excuses after COVID email revelations

By: Jamie Joseph — May 22nd 2024 at 17:55
Amid damning COVID emails, Fauci adviser Morens apologizes but offers few answers in tense congressional hearing.

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HHS moves to debar EcoHealth Alliance president over failure to comply with grant procedures

By: Kyle Morris — May 22nd 2024 at 12:54
HHS moved to debar Dr. Peter Daszak – the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a firm that used taxpayer funds to conduct gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab – on Tuesday.

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Fauci adviser's alleged destruction of COVID origin docs must be probed by AG: Rand Paul

By: Jamie Joseph — May 22nd 2024 at 09:29
Sen. Rand Paul demands a probe into a top Fauci aide's alleged record concealment and destruction pertaining to the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Chinese citizen journalist who was imprisoned for reporting on COVID outbreak is released

— May 22nd 2024 at 06:29
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been released from a Chinese prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Anthony Fauci's Top Adviser Bragged About 'How to Make Emails Disappear'

By: Hannah Knudsen · Hannah Knudsen — May 21st 2024 at 13:54

Anthony Fauci's top adviser, David Morens, once bragged about "how to make emails disappear," a congressional subpoena revealed.

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Unused COVID-19 funds would build border wall under new Senate bill

By: Julia Johnson — May 21st 2024 at 09:42
Sen. John Barrasso introduced a measure to pay for the completion of the southern border wall with unspent COVID-19 relief money.

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Biden suggests he was vice president during COVID-19 pandemic: 'Barack said to me, go to Detroit'

By: Charles Creitz — May 20th 2024 at 10:25
President Biden appeared to make a gaffe during his speech to an NAACP campaign event in Michigan, suggesting he was vice president during the pandemic.

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‘Inhumane’: Utah mom slaps drug company with lawsuit after suffering COVID vaccine trial injuries

By: Aubrie Spady · Andrew Murray — May 17th 2024 at 09:00
Brianne Dressen shared with Fox News Digital why she decided to file a lawsuit against AstraZeneca after taking part in the drug company's COVID-19 vaccine trial.

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North Carolina bill to stop protesters from using masks to hide identities advances without health exemption

By: Danielle Wallace — May 16th 2024 at 06:39
North Carolina GOP lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday to add criminal penalties for those who use masks to hid their identities and break the law.

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Chicago nurse is finally free of COVID-19-related PTSD and depression after electrical brain tapping therapy

By: Angelica Stabile — May 16th 2024 at 04:00
A Chicago nurse closed out her 40-year career after the coronavirus pandemic left her with PTSD and depression. She revealed how an electrical brain-tapping therapy called deep TMS saved her life.

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COVID origins: HHS suspends EcoHealth Alliance grants after finding taxpayer funds used in risky research

By: Brooke Singman — May 15th 2024 at 15:46
HHS implemented a suspension on all funds allocated to EcoHealth Alliance, which used taxpayer funds to conduct gain of function research at the Wuhan lab before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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U.S. Department of Labor: More Mothers Working Than Before Pandemic

By: Katherine Hamilton · Katherine Hamilton — May 13th 2024 at 17:21

Mothers are back to work in droves in Biden's inflated economy after the government shuttered businesses and closed schools during the pandemic.

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W.H.O. Goes into Overtime Drafting Pandemic Treaty as Opposition Grows

By: Frances Martel · Frances Martel — May 13th 2024 at 15:38

W.H.O. countries failed to submit a finalized draft of the proposed pandemic accord this week amid controversy.

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Former WV health official gets year of probation for lying about COVID test invoices

— May 13th 2024 at 17:15
Timothy Priddy, a former West Virginia health official, has been sentenced to a year of probation for lying about invoices from a company claiming to have conducted state COVID tests.

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Biden Says Trump Should Have Injected Himself with Bleach: 'Wish He Had Done a Little Bit'

By: Elizabeth Weibel · Elizabeth Weibel — May 10th 2024 at 22:52

President Joe Biden said during a fundraiser Friday in San Francisco, California, that he wished former President Donald Trump had injected himself with bleach.

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Foreigners Avoid China as Domestic Tourism Picks Up

By: John Hayward · John Hayward — May 10th 2024 at 19:38

The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.

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Pandemic treaty stumbles as nations struggle to finalize global plan

— May 10th 2024 at 06:59
Global leaders, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, have committed to improving future responses to similar situations, but establishing a pandemic treaty has proven difficult.

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Nurses call for change as many reveal they're ‘extremely likely’ to leave profession: ‘Emotional, stressful'

By: Melissa Rudy — May 10th 2024 at 03:30
Nurses aren’t optimistic that this year will be any better than last year — and more than one-third of them are “extremely likely" to change jobs, according to a new survey.

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Why he was fired from Harvard

By: Scott Johnson — March 13th 2024 at 15:45
(Scott Johnson)

The great Dr. Jay Bhattacharya hosts the Illusion of Consensus podcast. I have embedded his most recent episode below via X. In this episode he speaks with Martin Kulldorff. Please check it out in its native habitat here and help Dr. Bhattacharya extend his reach to other platforms.

Dr. Bhattacharya’s introduction to the podcast notes that “in this critical conversation we discuss a number of hot topics, most crucially Martin’s firing from Harvard for his opposition to vaccine mandates. He has broken the silence on this tragic issue and we are happy to host his first public conversation on the matter. We also discuss Martin’s firing from the CDC over the J&J vaccine and Harvard’s generally unscientific response to the pandemic. The conversation concludes with a discussion on decentralizing and reforming the scientific community.”

Drs. Bhattacharya and Kulldorff are are two-thirds of the team that hatched the Great Barrington Declaration. With any luck, they will be recognized in next year’s Samizadat Prize.

New Illusion of Consensus podcast with @martinkulldorff. Martin tells the story of his career in public health, his advocacy for the basic principles of public health in the covid era, and his departure from Harvard.

(The link to the podcast is in my bio. Please subscribe!) pic.twitter.com/K3GOZupBlQ

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) March 12, 2024

The required reading for the Illusion of Consensus podcast is of course Martin Kulldorff’s March 11 City Journal column “Harvard tramples the truth.” Dr. Kulldorff also discusses his experience in the excellent City Journal podcast with John Tierney below (City Journal transcript here).

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The ordeal of Martin Kulldorff

By: Scott Johnson — March 12th 2024 at 05:35
(Scott Johnson)

According to his Martin Kulldorff bio, Ph.D., Dr.h.c., is an epidemiologist, a biostatistician, and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. He was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University for thirteen years. Dr. Kulldorff’s research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. In October 2020, he co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating for a pandemic strategy of focused protection instead of lockdowns.

City Journal has just published Professor Kulldorff’s account of the censorship of his work and his involuntary departure from Harvard. It was something (many things) he thought and said — crimes against the groupthink of the Covid regime. His account runs to 2,500 words and is titled “Harvard tramples the truth.” It’s straight outta Cambridge. It’s straight outta D.C. It’s straight outta Orwell.

It opens: “I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.” Read every word here.

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Oh, yeah: The Samizdat Prize

By: Scott Johnson — March 7th 2024 at 18:19
(Scott Johnson)

RealClearFoundation president David DesRosiers has announced the inaugural winners of of its Samizdat Prize. Tonight’s the night. The Samizdat Prize is intended to honor the most important users of the First Amendment in the United States. The prize aspires to confer the honor that various of the Pulitzer Prizes bestow and should replace them in the mind of right-thinking men and women. In the words of DesRosiers, the award that is given by Real Clear to journalists, scholars, and public figures who have fought censorship and stood for truth, whatever the cost.

The first three recipients of the Samizdat Prize could not be more worthy: Miranda Devine (for her work on the Biden family business), Jay Bhattacharya (the anti-Fauci), and Matt Taibbi (for his work on the Twitter Files). I have written about all three many times on Power Line. DesRosiers talked about the prize with Buck Sexton here in a discussion posted at RCP.

Dr. Bhattacharya received the prize this past September. His remarks are posted here at RCP. Matt Taibbi has just posted “America enters the samizadat era” at his Racket News site. He looks back on his career in acknowledging the honor he receives tonight. Thanks to John Hinderaker, I met Matt last year. Politics aside, we have cheered him on and sought to follow his path in our own way.

Miranda Devine wrote in her New York Post Devine Online newsletter this morning:

I am thrilled to be in Palm Beach tonight to receive the inaugural Samizdat award from RealClearPolitics, alongside pandemic refusenik Dr Jay Battacharya and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi.

It’s an honor to be part of this grassroots movement to reclaim honest journalism in an era of lies.

“Samizdat” was the name of the underground press resisting the tyranny of the former Soviet Union.

It means ‘We publish ourselves” and was the inspiration for David DesRosiers, publisher and president of RealClear Foundation, to set up a rival journalism award to the Pulitzers.

Bravo to RealClear for bucking the establishment.

I couldn’t agree more. I would only add our congratulations to the inaugural recipients of the Samizdat Prize.

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Faucism in one country

By: Scott Johnson — February 29th 2024 at 13:32
(Scott Johnson)

The Claremont Review of Books has published Jeffrey Anderson’s terrific review/essay “Covid catastrophes.” I think “Faucism in one county” might capture the spirit of Anderson’s take on the tyranny imposed on us by the authorities under the Covid regime. Anderson’s essay makes me angry about it all over again, but the point is to prevent a recurrence.

While we’re angry all over again, we should check out former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade’s update of the investigation of Covid’s origin. The virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, of course, but Wade has the latest on the so-called DEFUSE protocol that seems to have led to the work in Wuhan:

[W]hereas most viruses require repeated tries to switch from an animal host to people, SARS-CoV-2 infected humans out of the box, as if it had been preadapted while growing in the humanized mice called for in the DEFUSE protocol.

The authors of the proposal were a team led by Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York, Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina. Although Mr. Baric is the leading expert on the technology, Mr. Daszak intended for much or most of the work to be done in Ms. Shi’s laboratory, despite giving a different impression to Darpa. He writes in the recently discovered documents that “I do want to stress the US side of this proposal so that DARPA are comfortable with our team. Once we get the funds, we can then allocate who does what exact work, and I believe that a lot of these assays can be done in Wuhan.”

Ms. Shi did most of her work with SARS-type viruses in the minimal-containment condition known as BSL2, whereas Mr. Baric, who regarded the viruses as seriously dangerous, worked in a more secure lab known as BSL3. Mr. Daszak noted that the lower-security labs would save money: “The BSL-2 nature of work on SARSr-CoVs makes our system highly cost-effective relative to other bat-virus systems.” Mr. Baric replied to this comment that the viruses might be grown under BSL2 safety conditions in China, but “US researchers will likely freak out.”

Mr. Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance last year asserted that the DEFUSE project was never implemented: “The proposal was not funded and the work was never done, therefore it cannot have played a role in the origin of COVID-19.” But science is a competitive business. After Darpa turned down the DEFUSE proposal in February 2019, the researchers in Wuhan might have secured Chinese government funding and gone ahead by themselves. Viruses made according to the DEFUSE protocol could have been available by the time Covid-19 broke out, sometime between August and November 2019. This would account for the otherwise unexplained timing of the pandemic along with its place of origin.

Here Wade inserts parenthetically: “Mr. Daszak, Mr. Baric and Ms. Shi didn’t respond to emails seeking comment. Chinese officials have demanded that the U.S. ‘stop defaming China’ by raising the possibility of a lab leak.” Wade then concludes:

One piece is missing from the puzzle—the identity of the parent viruses from which SARS-CoV-2 was derived. The Chinese authorities have rigorously suppressed all information about the viruses being kept in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But the documentary and scientific evidence already assembled seems sufficient to understand the genesis of the pandemic that killed millions.

The refusal of the Chinese authorities to cooperate in the relevant investigation has seemed to me a most potent piece of circumstantial evidence from the get-go.

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