Former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield reveals in a resurfaced interview that gain-of-function research has been conducted on bird flu viruses and expresses concern that society should debate the safety and responsibility of such research, with a coming bird flu pandemic predicted to be worse than COVID-19 and requiring a proportional investment in national security preparedness.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s subcommittee on the COVID-19 pandemic recently held its first hearing as part of its investigation into the virus' origins.
The CDC's updated guidance allows certifiers to list "long COVID" as a cause of death even if the deceased person had not tested positive for COVID-19 for months or even years, based on careful review of medical records and autopsy reports.
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testified that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, citing unusual events that occurred in September 2019.
The New York Times was among the many media organizations in 2020 that pushed the narrative that the COVID lab leak theory was some sort of wild conspiracy being pushed by the far right.
Of all the “conspiracy theories” surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, no “conspiracy theory” has been more obviously true since the very beginning than the Wuhan lab leak theory.