The White House has redirected Covid.gov to a new destination page called “Laboratory leak: true origins of COVID-19,“What makes an argument of five points to The theory that Covid-19 originated from a wrong laboratory escape in Wuhan, China.
Website for https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ On April 18, 2025.
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The new site seems to use the theories of the final Republican report led Select subcommittee in the coronavirus pandemic, Released in December 2024. There has never been a consensus or a “smoking gun” to explain what the pandemic began.
The Covid.gov page, as recently as last week, listed resources for testing, treatment and vaccination against COVID-19, as well as information for Long Covid.
The five tests presented by the White House For the theory it includes the following statements: that the “virus has a biological characteristic that is It is not found in nature“These data show all cases” come from A single introduction to humans,” that “Wuhan is the home of the main SARS Research Laboratory of China“That the researchers in that research laboratory” were Sick with Covid symptoms In the fall of 2019, “and that” if there were evidence of natural origin, there would be It has already appeared.“
The page includes statements that government officials, including former NIAID director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped edit and then amplify A research work On the origins of COVID-19 published in 2020 that supported the theory of natural origin.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and former Chief Medical Advisor of President Biden, is excited after he asked about the threats to him and his family, as testifies before a selected subcommittee audience 2024.
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The current page suggests that the explicit intention of this document was to discredit the laboratory escape theory and eliminate any questions that the origins were of natural origin. This is not a new accusation and in the past Jaws And the authors of the document did not agree with the accusations that the document was manipulated or had any specific objective.
The origins of the pandemic have been tired heated since its inception.
Predominant theories always seemed to focus on two scenarios: natural exposure to an infected animal or an accidental laboratory leak.
Without “smoking gun” and limited access to unprocessed data, the discussion of science has been developed in a circumstantial evidence fog.
In October 2021, the Office of the National Intelligence Director released A declassified report on the opinions of the intelligence community on the enigma of origin, which also leaned towards a natural spill, but represented divided points of view. A posterior Declassified report Released in 2023, he also pointed out that the majority of the intelligence community was divided into the origins of the pandemic. In reports, US agencies generally agreed that the virus probably did not develop as a biological weapon and that China’s leaders did not know about the virus before the beginning of global pandemic.
The new Splash Page presents a photo of Fauci and the forgiveness that former President Joe Biden granted him, highlighting that it was for “any crimes.” The page also accuses federal agencies, including NIH and HHS, to break the laws and violate the rules on transparency and cooperation with the Congress investigation. The agencies complied with the requests of FOIA and other regulatory requests of the committee and also appeared before the legislators when asked to testify.
The website also questions the effectiveness of social distancing, masking and blocking. The White House also criticized the response of New York officials.
Fauci testified about the accusations to legislators in 2024, saying that accusations about it cover or influence research on laboratory escape theory are false.
“The accusation that is distributed that I inflated in scientists to change their minds sobriving them with millions of dollars in subsidy money is absolutely false and simply absurd. He had no contributions on the content of the published document,” Fauci said in June 2024.
“The second problem is a false accusation that I tried to cover up the possibility that the virus originated in a laboratory. In fact, the truth is exactly the opposite,” Fauci said during that 2024 audience.
Deborah Beauplan nursing practitioner administers a COVID-19 HISOPO test on a Drive-Thru test site established for Suffolk County, New York, employees and their families in Smith Point Park in Shirley, New York, on December 18, 2020.
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This is not the first time that the White House has made clear its position in the origins of COVID-19. In January, President Trump said Covid-19 had “tense” his relationship with President Xi Jinping of China.
“But, I really like President Xi. I always liked it. We always had a very good relationship. I was very tense that Covid left Wuhan. Obviously, he tightened him. I am sure that he tightened him with many people, but that tensed our relationship, “Trump said in comments to the World Economic Forum.
Eric Strauss, Sony Salzman and Cheyenne Haslett of ABC News contributed to this report.
