COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world. After years of lies, censorship, and cover ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountabil...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the Intelligence Community (IC) to suppress the truth about his actions, the v...

In The Code as Witness, which was published on June 9, Dr. Steven Quay shows how the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 points directly to human engineering. He warns that irresponsible and unregulated gain-of-function research is accelerating, and that ...

Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. Motives are difficult to define given the scope of the DIGS review. Intentional or not, the IC's actions r...

The witness will testify that CIA scientific analysts repeatedly concluded that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19 — and that those conclusions were buried, softened, or withheld from Congress while the public was told to trust ...

Number three, the conclusion, so-called, they released to the public are false. If that is not a cover-up, I don’t know what is.

There’s a new theory in the Covid origin debate being pushed by some people, namely that the virus was probably created in America by Ralph Baric’s research group at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina – and sent to China from ...

Right. Thank you, Chairman, and welcome, Dr. Bhattacharya. I’m glad to see you again. Let’s talk about gain-of-function research. To start with, I think it’s now very well established that covid was a result of gain-of-function research partially fun...

So it's crazy to think that this entire nightmare was probably the result of some scientists messing with Mother Nature in a laboratory with technology exported from the United States that is inserting a furin cleavage site.

I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins and I commend Director Ratcliffe for fulfilling his promise to release this conclusion.

CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting.

There is sufficient evidence to conclude beyond reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 entered humans through a research-related incident.

[T]he overall odds ratio is 14,900:1, indicating overwhelming evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the pandemic resulted from an accidental lab leak.

Zoonosis is a more likely hypothesis due to being better supported by the evidence – This is completely untrue, but to fully understand it one has to commit to learning how to do probabilistic inference correctly, which Scott could not free enough ti...

The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.

I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions. Dr. Fauci personal...

My view is it's pretty close to certain.

The continued absence of any meaningful evidence of a zoonotic chain of transmission and mutation in the wild and the accretion of other evidence is pointing increasingly, in my view, toward an accidental lab leak as the most likely origin of COVID-1...

The origin of COVID is still uncertain.

As things stand, all hypotheses must remain on the table, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak.

Despite a large number and breadth of research studies conducted to date, the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and its intermediate hosts is still under investigation. To date, two main hypotheses on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 remain: 1) the virus originated fro...

It is a virus that in this case came from animals and then spread among people. We do not know exactly how that happened.

There was nothing remarkable about SARS-CoV-2’s evolution from what we could tell [...] Every single significant pathogen that you’ve heard of, like HIV, coronaviruses, influenza or measles—they all originated in animals, but it is not necessarily ob...

We have often dealt with those claims. We examined relevant reports and analyzed interviews and presentations that were made available to us by representatives of such theories. Many of these presentations were speculative, resembling fictional scena...

I’ll repeat myself again; the evidence for the lab leak is innuendo, supposition about motives and out-of-context quotes from private emails purposefully amplified to arouse reaction and fears. A scientist can’t say with 100 percent certainty that so...

No evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was shaped by selection in a laboratory or prolonged evolution in an intermediate host prior to its emergence.

This work has direct relevance to the ongoing controversy around COVID-19 origins. From an evolutionary perspective, we find no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was shaped by selection in a laboratory or prolonged evolution in an intermediate host prior to i...

Data provided in intelligence reports was also assessed, but tended to be very speculative, based on political opinions and not backed up by science.

the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.

[T]he less flashy hypothesis that bringing live animals infected with pathogens with pandemic potential into the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world was how this pandemic started.

The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan.

We firmly oppose the politicization and stigmatization of the source of the virus, and once again call on everyone to respect science and stay away from conspiracy theories.

For what it's worth, I was close to 50-50 before the debate, and now I'm 90-10 in favor of zoonosis.

Introduction through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway.

By comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes.

Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, includin...

Every one of the five pieces of evidence supporting the lab leak hypothesis … is factually incorrect, embellished, or presented in a misleading way.