Wuhan coronavirus outbreak/Lab-leak theory


 * ''See also Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

Wuhan virus lab

 * New Study By Dr. Steven Quay Concludes that SARS-CoV-2 Came from a Laboratory - PR Newswire, January 29, 2021
 * A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived - Steven Quay, January 21, 2021 (version 3 March 29, 2021)
 * Why The U.S. Government Stopped Funding A Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses - NPR, April 29, 2021
 * The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak - Steven Quay and Richard Muller, Wall Street Journal June 6, 2021 (archive)
 * https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-scientist-the-sole-foreign-researcher-at-the-wuhan-lab-speaks-out-20210628-p584sv.html
 * https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-22/australian-doctor-on-the-who-covid-19-mission-china-origin-covid/13180078
 * https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/who-inspector-dominic-dwyer-speaks-about-covid-19-report-finding/13283564
 * ‘Science, Not Speculation’: Scientists Blast Obsession With ‘Unsubstantiated’ COVID Lab Leak Theory - Sputnik, July 7, 2021
 * lab report raises further questions about possible COVID-19 lab leak - Fox News, August 1, 2021
 * ''Republicans are set to release their most detailed case yet arguing that researchers in Wuhan could have genetically manipulated the virus
 * Exposed! How EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology Collaborated on a Dangerous Bat Coronavirus Project - DRASTIC, September 20, 2021
 * Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats 18 months before outbreak - The Telegraph, September 21, 2021 (archive, summary)
 * ''Leaked documents reveal [US] researchers applied for $14m to fund controversial project in 2018

Fort Detrick and Ecohealth Alliance

 * Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses - Ecohealth Alliance, March 24, 2018 (Rejection)
 * Suspect No.1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing Global Times, June 28, 2021 (republished by Sputnik)
 * Will WHO Inspect Fort Detrick For COVID Origins? - Anna Malindog-Uy, The Asean Post, August 8, 2021
 * With records of ‘lab-created coronaviruses’ incidents, supervision loopholes and audacious germ researchers, what really happened in US’ UNC labs? - Global Times, August 9, 2021
 * Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research - Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett, The Intercept, September 23 2021
 * ''The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.
 * Covid leaked from an AMERICAN lab and not the notorious Chinese facility at centre of pandemic cover-up, claims top US professor described as ‘Xi propagandist’ - Daily Mail, July 4, 2022
 * Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic - Jeffrey Sachs, Current Affairs, August 2, 2022
 * Origins of the Covid Virus with Jeffrey Sachs - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Defender, August 20, 2022 (audio)
 * Fury as The Lancet sensationally claims Covid may have leaked from an AMERICAN lab – echoing anti-western claims peddled by Beijing A UK medical journal has suggested the US could have created the Covid virus - Daily Mail, September 15, 2022
 * Major Covid report suggests virus could have leaked from a US lab - The Daily Telegraph, September 14, 2022
 * ''The Lancet’s paper said it is ‘feasible’ that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from a natural spillover or a lab incident, but elements provoke backlash
 * Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19 Help Nobody - Angela Rasmussen and Michael Worobey, Foreign Policy, September 15, 2022
 * ''The continued pushing of a “lab-leak” theory is unsupported and dangerous.

Ukraine

 * Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine - Russian MoD, August 4, 2022

Debunk attempts

 * rule out man-made origin of COVID-19 - People's Daily Online, July 18, 2021

Gain-of-function research

 * ''See also US bioweapons programme#Gain of function research

Cover-up attempts
 * A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence - Vineet D Menachery & al., Nature Medicine, November 9, 2015
 * Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus - Ben Hu & al., PLOS Pathogens, November 30, 2017
 * US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says - Daily Caller, April 4, 2021
 * Fauci Goes Batsh*t After Senator Shows He Backed Funding for Wuhan Animal-to-Human Virus Research - Sputnik, July 21, 2021
 * Fauci Accused Of Lying To Congress About Virus Research - The Jimmy Dore Show, July 22, 2021 (video)
 * NIH letter on funded gain of function research - Richard Ebright, ''Twitter, October 20, 2021
 * Scientists Doing Dangerous Virus Research Cry Victim To Avoid Public Accountability - Paul Thacker, The Disinformation Chronicles, January 25, 2022

RaTG13
Formerly designated as Bat coronavirus Ra4991
 * Comparative Genomic Analyses Reveal a Specific Mutation Pattern Between Human Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and Bat-CoV RaTG13 - Longxian Lv, & al., Frontiers in Microbiology, November 30, 2020
 * The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is a riddle: meet the Twitter detectives who aim to solve it - Moreno Colaiacovo, Medium, Dec 3, 2020
 * Virus Similar to SARS-CoV-2 Might Have Existed Since 2013, Swiss Epidemiologist Says - Sputnik, August 1, 2021
 * Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China - Jason Latham, Allison Wilson Independent Science News, August 2, 2021
 * See also Talk:Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak

Omicron
There is evidence that the Omicron variant was developed in a laboratory, possibly to act as an universal vaccine.
 * Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant - Changshuo Wei & al., Journal of Genetics and Genomics, December 24, 2021

Analysis

 * The 'Lab-Leak' Theory Is Not Of Equal Value - Promoting It Furthers The China Hawks - Moon of Alabama, May 27, 2021
 * The Flying Pangolin -Andreas Canetti, Unz Review, June 18, 2021
 * A Bristling Array of Implausibility: Reflections on the Unz Bio-Warfare Attack Hypothesis - Sushi, The Saker Blog, June 24, 2021
 * https://citizensparty.org.au/covid-lab-leak-science-refuted
 * “Unchallenged Orientalism”: Why Liberals Suddenly Love the Lab Leak Theory - Alan Macleod, Mint Press, July 9, 2021
 * American Pravda: the Covid Epidemic as Lab-Leak or Biowarfare? - Ron Unz, Unz Review, July 12, 2021
 * Lab Leak Theory: New Evidence? (w/ Jeffery Sachs) - Bad Faith, May 30, 2022 (video)
 * "The Wicked Flee When No Man Pursueth" - Ron Unz, Unz Review, September 19, 2022