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UK spies believe the theory that COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab is 'plausible' and are trying to recruit darknet sources as they investigate it, says report
The theory that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab was initially dismissed, but intelligence a…
Tom Porter  Â
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China nominated the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the nation's top science award amid mounting suspicions that COVID was made and leaked from its labs
The nomination came after Zhao Lijian, China's top foreign ministry spokesman, said the lab deserve…
Cheryl Teh  Â
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China says the Wuhan virus lab deserves a Nobel Prize. Meanwhile the US is trying to figure out whether it leaked the coronavirus.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian dismissed the theory that the coronavirus was made a…
SinĂ©ad Baker  Â
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3 Wuhan lab workers were sick enough to go to the hospital in November 2019, report says, bolstering calls to reconsider the coronavirus lab-leak theory
The Wuhan Institute of Virology hasn't released raw data or lab records on its work with coronaviru…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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An Australian scientist who was the only foreigner at the Wuhan virus lab says she never got COVID-19 and doesn't believe the center leaked it
Danielle Anderson, 42, worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 lab until November 2019. S…
Bill Bostock  Â
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China spent years angrily trying to shut down the theory that COVID-19 came from its labs. It failed.
The FBI's director, Christopher Wray, has added his support to the theory that COVID-19 originated …
Tom Porter  Â
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The Washington Post corrected an article that described COVID-19 emerging from a Wuhan lab as a 'conspiracy theory' and 'debunked'
The theory that the coronavirus escaped a Wuhan lab was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory,…
Tom Porter  Â
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Fauci: We need to keep an 'open mind' about the lab-leak theory of the coronavirus pandemic's origins
Dr. Anthony Fauci says it's "more likely" the virus first spread from an animal to a person but urg…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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WHO chief said it was 'premature' to dismiss the coronavirus lab-leak theory because 'lab accidents happen'
The once ridiculed theory has gained some traction this year despite furious pushback from China.
Thomas Colson  Â
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The Senate unanimously passed a bill to declassify intel on the origins of COVID-19, including the Wuhan lab
President Joe Biden also gave US intel 90 days to produce a report on the matter, days after report…
Kelsey Vlamis  Â
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A lab leak in Wuhan remains a 'viable' theory for the coronavirus' origin, an international group of scientists says
The coronavirus' origin remains a mystery. So the idea that it was accidentally released from a lab…
Aylin Woodward  Â
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The WHO is restarting its investigation into whether COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, report says
The WHO is building a new team of 20 specialists in lab safety, biosecurity, and animal diseases, T…
Bill Bostock  Â
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Trump cut funding for a group researching bat-to-human virus transmissions after unfounded conspiracy theories linked it to a Wuhan lab, report says
EcoHealth Alliance, a New York research group, was accused of sending money to the Wuhan lab at the…
Rosie Perper  Â
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The theory pushed by Trump that the coronavirus began at a laboratory in Wuhan is 'pure fabrication,' according to the lab's director
The Trump administration has pushed the theory that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in t…
Adam Payne  Â
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Trump's CDC director is perpetuating baseless claims that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab
Former CDC director Robert Redfield told CNN that he believes the coronavirus first infected a lab …
Aylin Woodward  Â
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US intelligence community says it concurs with the 'wide scientific consensus' that the coronavirus was not 'man-made or genetically modified'
The announcement comes after weeks of speculation in the right-wing and far-right media that the co…
Sonam Sheth  Â
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House Republicans published a report blaming the COVID-19 outbreak on a Chinese lab leak, but the US intelligence community has yet to back the theory
Biden in May gave the US intelligence community 90 days to conclude an investigation on COVID-19's …
Ashley Collman  Â
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Trump demands China pay $10 trillion of 'reparations' to US for damage caused by COVID-19
Former President Donald Trump demanded that China pay $10 trillion in "reparations" to the US durin…
Joshua Zitser  Â
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An unsubstantiated theory suggests the coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab - here are the facts
The Institute of Virology houses China's only BSL-4 laboratory, which is one of only dozen in the w…
Aylin Woodward  Â
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US officials may have avoided the coronavirus lab-leak theory to avoid associations with controversial gain-of-function research
The US has funded labs that alter coronaviruses for research. That may have led officials to avoid …