Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.| Vanity Fair
The case for a COVID-19 research-related origin is becoming exponentially stronger while arguments for other origin hypotheses have either been debunked or ...| jamiemetzl.com
American scientists planned to work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to engineer novel coronaviruses with the features of SARS-CoV-2 the year before the virus emerged from that city.| U.S. Right to Know
Freedom of information documents from our investigation into the origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function and biolab risks.| U.S. Right to Know
The proposal, rejected by the U.S. military’s research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses.| The Intercept
American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards the year before COVID-19 pandemic, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know.| U.S. Right to Know
“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak on the origins of Covid pandemic.| The Intercept
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.| The Atlantic
“I think it is very unclear how SARS-CoV-2 first entered humans.”| The Intercept
For the moment, the best explanation for the origins of COVID-19 seems to be that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists were engaged in creating novel SARS-like chimeras and potentially supercharging their transmissibility and pathogenicity.| Inference