Origins of Covid

Kristian Andersen had a major grant proposal on Anthony Fauci’s desk while writing a paper exonerating an NIH-funded lab in Wuhan, documents show.

New documents show a scientist calling a lab leak “highly likely” — after drafting a paper claiming the opposite.

David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health, told prominent scientists discussing Covid’s origins that he would delete emails.

New reporting, attributed to U.S. government sources, identified a coronavirus researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in November 2019.

Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.

Virologists close to the NIH initially believed the Covid virus could be genetically engineered. Unredacted emails show how their thinking evolved.

“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance president on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In an interview, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak addressed gaps and missing information in documents released to The Intercept.

The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

New records from the National Institutes of Health detail internal conversations involving EcoHealth Alliance’s research in Wuhan.