The Trump White House launched the revamped COVID.gov website on Friday, which outlines the Wuhan, China lab leak as the true origin of the Covid-19.
The page, at this link, turns the former narrative by the Biden Administration on its head.
It disputes many of the “truths” that the federal government pushed during the Covid pandemic, which started in 2020.
At the top of the page, a quote starts the pointed discussion:
“‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. [Anthony] Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally.”
A lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of Covid-19, the page says, adding: “Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.”
This aligns with recent CIA, FBI, and Department of Energy assessments, though these agencies have qualified their statements with “low confidence” label due to limited direct evidence.
The new White House Covid page references the proximity of the Wuhan lab to the Huanan Seafood Market, where early cases were detected, and reports of lab researchers falling ill with Covid-like symptoms in late 2019. It also mentions US-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, which may have increased the virus’s transmissibility or pathogenicity.
The website attributes responsibility to the Chinese government for lack of transparency and potential cover-up efforts, including destroyed samples and restricted access to data.The White House calls for accountability and measures to prevent future lab-related outbreaks.
The new page acknowledges that no definitive evidence confirms the lab-leak hypothesis and that a natural zoonotic spillover remains plausible as well.
The White House page says that EcoHealth, under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak, used US taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research. After the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of Health grant, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) started suspending all funding to EcoHealth.
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.
The White House calls out the National Institutes of Health for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research and says NIH fostered an environment that promoted evading federal record keeping laws — as seen through the actions of Dr. David Morens and “FOIA Lady” Marge Moore.
The page also shows a copy of the pardon given by former President Joe Biden to Dr. Fauci.
Further, the page says that the six-foot distancing rule was made up out of thin air, and the masking mandates had no basis in science.
“Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life,” the White House page says.
