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Allegations that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied” about COVID‑19 cluster around three themes: statements on masks and herd immunity, funding/oversight of Wuhan research and “gain‑of‑function,” and claims abou...
Key public records and reporting show the U.S. government — through grants to EcoHealth Alliance and collaborations involving U.S. scientists — funded coronavirus research that included bat-to-human r...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID‑19 pandemic drew a wide spectrum of criticisms ranging from allegations of promoting a preferred origin narrative to complaints about shifting public‑health g...
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...
The evidence for a laboratory origin of SARS‑CoV‑2 remains contested and inconclusive: multiple recent peer‑reviewed reviews and international investigations find , while intelligence and independent ...
Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli collaborated on published work that in 2015 described creating a chimeric coronavirus in the lab by placing a bat-virus spike gene onto a SARS backbone to test cross-specie...
There is no single, universally accepted conclusion that the SARS‑CoV‑2 pandemic definitively began with a laboratory leak; major health bodies and scientific reviews continue to treat both zoonotic s...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as director of NIAID and a senior U.S. public health official during the Obama administration, did not personally visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 as some viral images ...
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...
The origin of COVID‑19 remains unresolved but two competing pathways dominate: spillover from animals into humans and an accidental laboratory release; U.S. congressional inquiries and recent White Ho...
Documents and reporting show the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIAID provided funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which subcontracted work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on bat corona...
Multiple Republican officials and the White House press office cited specific USAID expenditures in early 2025 as examples of , naming items such as pet supplies for Ukraine, DEI programs in Europe, c...
NIH/NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance grants that supported collaborative work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; NIH later acknowledged at least one experiment funded through that grant produced a bat...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has compiled a mix of documentary references, media reports, grant records, emails cited by others, and witness statements to support his accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci; h...
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...
There is a sustained, contested debate about whether the COVID-19 pandemic began with a natural spillover from animals or from a laboratory-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). M...
Mainstream scientific institutions initially treated the lab-leak claims amplified by the DRASTIC internet sleuths as speculative and, at times, politically charged, with many scientists and major out...
Early, high-profile statements in leading journals asserting confidence in a natural origin for SARS‑CoV‑2 were later scrutinized for undisclosed ties—most prominently Peter Daszak’s collaborations wi...
Ralph Baric, a prominent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, has a documented history of scientific collaboration and communication with Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scien...
Between 2014 and 2019, EcoHealth Alliance was the recipient of multiple U.S. federal research awards; public reporting and government audits identify a major NIAID/NIH award launched in 2014 often rep...