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New Studies Support Origin Theory That COVID-19 Emerged in the Wild
Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.
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‘Wuhan, I Am Here': Film Follows Volunteers in Sealed City
The homeless, the sick, the elderly: For people who fell through the cracks of the official system, the then-unprecedented decision to isolate the central Chinese city of Wuhan and its 13 million people was a matter of life or death
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China Is Pushing a New COVID Origin Theory: Maine Lobsters
In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.
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US Intelligence Still Divided on Origins of Coronavirus
U.S. intelligence agencies are still divided on the origins of the coronavirus, but believe China’s leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic
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From Beijing to Wuhan, China Orders Mass Testing and Restrictions as Covid Cases Rise
Economists are concerned that strict measures by the government to control the Covid-19 outbreak would hurt the Chinese economy.
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China Orders Mass Testing in Wuhan as New COVID Outbreak Spreads
China has suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019
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Fauci, Paul Clash on Virus Origins, Trade Charges of Lying
A recurring clash between the government’s top infectious disease doctor and a U.S. senator has erupted again on Capitol Hill, with each accusing the other of lying.
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Fauci to Sen. Paul: ‘If Anybody's Lying Here, Senator, It Is You'
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, had a heated exchange during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on COVID-19.
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Fact Check: The Facts – and Gaps – on the Origin of the Coronavirus
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic — and with a death toll approaching 4 million lives — how the coronavirus came to spark a global scourge remains unknown. Was it the result of a spillover from an animal to a human, as has happened repeatedly in the past? Or did the virus accidentally escape from a nearby lab...
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Biden Asks US Intel Officials to ‘Redouble' Efforts on Determining COVID-19 Origins
President Joe Biden has asked the intelligence community to “redouble” their efforts to get to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus after new reports raised questions about whether it spread from a Wuhan laboratory in China, NBC News reports.
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White House Calls for International Investigation Into Source of COVID-19
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that the Biden administration supports an international investigation into the source of the coronavirus after reports surfaced that three Wuhan researchers were hospitalized in November 2019 after falling ill. Psaki also cautioned people from drawing conclusions ahead of a formal inquiry, saying, “What we can’t do, and what I would caution...
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US Intel Report ID'd 3 Researchers at Wuhan Lab Who Fell Ill in November 2019
The new details, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, add to the body of circumstantial evidence that supports a hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus may have spread to humans after it escaped from a Chinese research lab in Wuhan. But the evidence is far from conclusive.
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Back-To-Back Tornadoes Kill 12 in China; Over 300 Injured
Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured
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1 Report, 4 Theories: Scientists Mull Clues on Virus' Origin
A team of international and Chinese scientists is poised to report on its joint search for the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a pandemic after it was first detected in China over a year ago
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Calif. Law Professor Under Fire for Blog Post Blaming Pandemic on Chinese Government
A University of San Diego law professor is under fire for what even the school is calling disparaging and biased language used in a blog post about the suspected origin of the coronavirus, a conspiracy the Chinese government denies. Because the investigation into these remarks is just starting, NBC 7 is not naming the tenured professor or his blog page….
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EXPLAINER: What the WHO Coronavirus Experts Learned in Wuhan
A World Health Organization team is leaving China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide
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WHO Team: Coronavirus Unlikely to Have Leaked From China Lab
A team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 says the coronavirus most likely appeared in humans after jumping from an animal
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Chinese Whistleblower Doctor Honored on Death Anniversary
The message honoring the Chinese whistleblower doctor who died of the coronavirus a year ago was tucked into a bouquet of chrysanthemums left by a mourner at the back of Wuhan Central Hospital
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WHO Investigators Visit Research Center in Wuhan
Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.
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Wu-Tang Clan or Wuhan? T-Shirt Ignites New China-Canada Tiff
China has complained to Canada over T-shirts ordered an embassy worker that allegedly mocked China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent mix-up between the city of Wuhan and the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.