Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told lawmakers on Wednesday that U.S. tax dollars funded risky gain-of-function research at a Chinese virus lab at the heart of the COVID-19 origin controversy. Redfield made the remark while responding to questions during a March 8 session of the House Select…

The World Health Organization concluded a meeting on March 3 to advance negotiations on the global governance of pandemic responses. If the event flew under the radar in Canada, Republican politicians in the U.S. have taken a position against the treaty, expressing concern about its implications on their country’s sovereignty in policy-making. The World Health Organization…

A group of Republican senators urged the federal government to halt funding to all ongoing and new gain-of-function research, which they say may have contributed to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “These experiments pose extreme threats to public health if the altered pathogens are accidentally or deliberately released,” the senators wrote in a letter…

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are seeking answers from Boston University over its “potentially risky gain-of-function research with coronaviruses.” In the preprint paper first released on Oct. 14, researchers with Boston University said they created a new strain of COVID-19 by combining the Omicron variant’s spike protein and the original Wuhan strain…

Commentary I’ve just woken up to the astonishing news that Anthony Fauci’s agency (NIAID) has doled out another $653,392 to Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. The money began to flow last week. Alex Berenson seems to have broken the story. I’m in a state of disorientation and amazement, as are many others. The grant makes…

Voters across five states have selected their nominees for the midterm elections. Several Trump-backed candidates won. And in one state, Americans got to vote directly on abortion access. A hearing sought to pin down the origin of the pandemic by focusing on gain-of-function research. As more vaccines and boosters are administered throughout the country, what…

Experts on Aug. 3 urged Congress to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the United States, asserting the present system is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments. Two Department of Health and Human Services agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are currently…

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are leading the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 3. Access the livestream on this page. The hearing comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny…

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are leading the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 3. Access the livestream on this page. The hearing comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny…

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are leading the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 3. Access the livestream on this page. The hearing comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny…