Tom Cotton

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U.S. Senator from Arkansas (Republican); member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees

Speaks on: COVID-19 Origins FLF Epistack Health Public Health Research Policy

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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Pointing out that COVID leaked from a lab in Communist China was never a conspiracy, it was common sense. The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins. I’m thankful that the Department...
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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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.
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