Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it ...

Zeynep Tufecki, a Times columnist and sociology professor at Princeton University, wrote in a recent opinion piece that the ...

N o, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that ...

He told MPs it was ‘most likely’ that transmission had taken place at Wuhan’s wet markets where wild animals were on sale. When pressed further, he replied dismissively that he had joined ...

Yet, Pompeo urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to probe the lab in question just a day after a WHO team arrived in Wuhan. This team plans to study the 'wet market' thought to be linked to ...

After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of ...

More and more evidence points to the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID-19, but answers are elusive, and a look at the issue without the filter of politics is rarer yet. The new Trump Administration has ...

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...