Unredacted NIH emails show efforts to rule out lab origin of Covid By Jimmy Tobias AS COVID-19 WAS spreading fear and spurring lockdowns across the United States in early 2020, the scientific journal Nature Medicine published a paper on March 17 titled “The Proximal...
Student Infected With Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident By Mara Hvistendahl In America’s biolabs, hundreds of accidents have gone undisclosed to the public. THE GRADUATE STUDENT was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected with a...
An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid. By Sharon Lerner IN AN ARTICLE published Thursday, economist...
“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance president on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. By Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl SINCE THE EARLY days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Peter Daszak has been at the...
America’s Frontline Doctors and Project Veritas launched a video series devoted to Covid-19 disinformation. By Micah Lee THE ANTI-VACCINE propaganda group America’s Frontline Doctors has partnered with Project Veritas, the far-right group known for...
When Psaki scoffed at the idea of sending Americans free Covid-19 rapid tests, it was a reminder that a for-profit health care system still limits the U.S. pandemic response. By Robert Mackay PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS were appalled Monday to hear an idea that many of them...
Emails show that NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own gain-of-function research. By Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH allowed a U.S. nonprofit it funds to police its own...
The data also reveals that 72,000 people paid at least $6.7 million for Covid-19 consultations promoted by America’s Frontline Doctors and vaccine conspiracist Simone Gold. By Micah Lee A NETWORK OF health care providers pocketed millions of dollars selling...
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. By Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett A GRANT PROPOSAL written by the U.S.-based nonprofit the EcoHealth...
More than 900 pages of materials related to U.S.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept. By Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of...