The trove of newly public emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci only has intensified calls for more answers about the origins of COVID-19.
On some level, the executive branch and Congress are investigating the origins of the pandemic that has killed millions around the world and almost 600,000 in the United States.
The renewed attention comes amid mounting circumstantial evidence that the new coronavirus that causes the disease came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a Senate panel May 11 that the United States didn’t help fund research at the Wuhan lab that involved making the virus more contagious or otherwise more dangerous.
However, the surfacing of an email exchange from Feb. 1, 2020, between Fauci and his deputy and fellow immunologist Hugh Auchincloss seems to cast doubt on that point.
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The broad questions include: Did the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 originate in a wet market near the Wuhan lab, as public health officials in both the United States and China insisted for more than a year? Or did the coronavirus originate in and somehow escape the Wuhan lab?
If the virus did originate in the Wuhan lab, did U.S. taxpayers help fund the related research? Are Fauci and other government officials shooting straight with Americans about what they know and don’t know?
Although the dominant media has just begun to express interest in getting answers, multiple avenues of inquiry have been opened by members of Congress, the intelligence community, and academia.
Here’s a guide to what’s next as more U.S. officials push for answers.
1. Single Party Interest in House
Several congressional Republicans have demanded an investigation of the origins of the virus, but House Democrats thus far have been fairly quiet.
“The left-wing media and Democrats quickly dismissed the Wuhan lab COVID-19 origins theory as a ‘fringe conspiracy theory’ but it has been plausible from the start,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told The Daily Signal in an email interview.
The Daily Signal also sought comment on the need for an investigation from Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., but her office had not responded as of publication time.
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2. Intelligence Community Review
As pressure mounted on the question, Biden announced May 26 that he had ordered the investigation by U.S. intelligence agencies into the origins of COVID-19.
Biden said the intelligence community had coalesced around two likely scenarios, “each with low or moderate confidence.”
“The majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other,” the president said, referring to the government’s 16 separate intelligence agencies.
Those two scenarios involve either a lab accident or a natural emergence in China, National Intelligence Director Avril Haines told the House Intelligence Committee in testimony April 15.
Biden said intelligence agencies would redouble efforts to analyze information to “bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” and report back to him in 90 days. [read more]
The other things to know:
- Senate Action
- Looking Into NIH and WHO
- EcoHealth Alliance
- Wuhan Lab and Chinese Military
- International Probes
- A 9/11-Style Commission?
Other articles on the virus and the Wuhan Lab:
- Scientists Argue COVID-19 'Genetic Footprint' is Unnatural
- Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities
- COVID Began Far Earlier Than We Were Told
- Scientist on alleged CONFLICT OF INTERESTS when investigating COVID origin [video]
- Chinese Military Was Inside Wuhan Institute of Virology as Early as 2017, China Task Force Reports
- House Democrats Block Bill Declassifying The Origins Of COVID-19
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