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Capital city of Hubei Province, China
The question cannot be answered with certainty from available public reporting: no definitive "smoking gun" proving a Wuhan lab leak exists, and no conclusive proof that SARS‑CoV‑2 emerged naturally h...
Conflicts of interest and prior funding ties played a central, contested role in shaping the scientific community’s initial response to the lab‑leak hypothesis: early, authoritative statements that fr...
The record shows U.S. federal agencies began routing research funding to EcoHealth Alliance that ultimately supported collaborations with Wuhan institutions in 2014—squarely during the Obama administr...
Claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied about COVID” concentrate on three threads: alleged concealment of U.S. funding or oversight of Wuhan research, tactical communications about masks/herd immunity, an...
The February 19, 2020 Lancet letter that “strongly condemn[ed] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID‑19 does not have a natural origin” is widely credited by reporters and some scientists with set...
U.S. political bodies and some intelligence agencies have in 2024–2025 shifted toward endorsing a lab-origin hypothesis for COVID-19, citing reports such as the Republican-led House select committee a...
The question of whether SARS‑CoV‑2 was created in a Wuhan laboratory and accidentally released remains unresolved by definitive evidence; . Published peer‑reviewed genomic, epidemiological, and biosaf...
Scientists and international agencies say the origin of SARS‑CoV‑2 remains unresolved: WHO’s SAGO concluded the work is unfinished and urged more data . U.S. political bodies and the current White Hou...
Global estimates of men who engage in sex with men (MSM) vary by region from roughly 3–20% depending on measurement and geography, and married men are a substantial, but unevenly measured, subset of t...
China has repeatedly limited or delayed sharing key datasets and access that investigators say are essential to reconstructing the earliest days of the pandemic—most notably raw patient-level records ...
Ralph S. Baric and Shi Zhengli appear as co‑authors or collaborators on a small set of high‑profile coronavirus papers that documented making chimeric bat–SARS viruses and studying spike‑protein chang...
The World Health Organization did not “start” COVID‑19; it is an international health agency that has led and convened investigations into the virus’s origins and declared the outbreak a public health...
Charlie Kirk repeatedly amplified COVID-19 claims that fact‑checkers and medical experts found false or misleading, most notably asserting that hydroxychloroquine was "100% effective" and alleging sup...
Available investigations have not reached a single, definitive conclusion that SARS‑CoV‑2 originated from a specific transmission event in a market; early cases were linked to a Wuhan market but broad...
Genetic and epidemiological evidence cited by major reviews and peer-reviewed studies favors a natural spillover as the most consistent explanation for SARS‑CoV‑2’s emergence: independent assessments ...
Available reporting shows a mix of intelligence assessments, scientific analyses, and circumstantial claims — no single publicly available source in this set presents direct, conclusive proof that SAR...
Most reporting and scientific summaries say the virus that causes COVID-19 — SARS‑CoV‑2 — is “most likely of zoonotic origin,” with molecular-clock analyses placing first human cases in late 2019 and ...
Republican criticisms of Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 role center on three recurring charges: that he supported or concealed risky research funding (notably “gain‑of‑function” ties to Wuhan), that he push...
The balance of peer-reviewed and official assessments summarized here indicates of SARS-CoV-2, grounded in phylogenetic links to bat coronaviruses and environmental detections at the Huanan market; ma...
Local reporting and organizers’ materials show that the No Kings movement has issued public guidance emphasizing nonviolence and event logistics, and local host pages list times and places — . Availab...