The White House doubles Lab Leak theory, destroying the original Covid-19 information website and replacing it with its own claim

• White House The Federation has been completely reused covid.gov A site that originally provided information about the pandemic and how to order tests. Now it is a website entirely dedicated to President Donald Trump’s theory, and the Covid-19 pandemic came from a lab in Wuhan, China.

More than five years have passed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and more than 7 million people have died around the world since then. According to the previous month, there have still been thousands of Covid-related deaths, World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump Redesigned the federal government website The pandemic began with a leak in Wuhan, China. The Covid.gov and covidtests.gov websites were once linked to portals with useful information such as how to order tests.

Now the word “lab leak” is the headline and features satellite images of Uhan, a city where Covid began to spread. The website claims to explain the “true origins of Covid-19.”

The White House said:Proximal origin of SARS-COV-2“It was repeatedly used by public health officials and the media to trust the lab’s leak theory,” and “It was encouraged by Dr. Forsi to promote the favourable narrative that Covid-19 was born naturally.”

There are five claims that the White House uses to back up that theory. They argue that:

• “Viruses have biological properties that are not found in nature.”
• “The data shows that all Covid-19 cases are attributed to a single referral to humans. This is contrary to the previous pandemic, where there were multiple ripple events.”
• “Wuhan is home to China’s most important SARS Research Lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (genetic changes and organism overcharging) at an insufficient biosafety level.”
• “Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were sick with Covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before Covid-19 was discovered in a wet market.”
• “If there was evidence of natural origin by almost every measure of science, it would have already emerged, but that’s not.”

There is not yet one direct consensus on how the pandemic began decisively, but many scientists believe it has emerged in the Wildlife Market in Uhan. Countless scientists have tried to study and match the direct source of the pandemic. study It was published in September 2024 by renowned biologists Michael Warby and Angela Rasmussen.

“This market wasn’t just where the virus finally reached after it spread widely to Uhan,” Warby said. NPR. “There are very clear indications that the jump has been successful and that the spread of humans to humans has begun.”

On the other hand, another study Published by over 20 scientists cell, The peer-reviewed scientific journal said the outbreak caused by the escape of the new virus was not the cause, and there was no data suggesting that the Uhan Virus Institute or other labs are working on Covid-19.

According to the study, “sequencing of virus samples, followed by laboratory escape cases have not been documented.” “Despite extensive contact tracing of early cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, no cases have been reported related to WIV laboratory staff.”

The new covid.gov website claims that former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped compile and amplify research papers that support the theory of natural origin that Trump distrusts.

Trump’s CIA chief John Ratcliffe recently ordered the release of an assessment in support of the president’s lab leakage theory.

“The CIA underestimates confidence that research-related origins of the Covid-19 pandemic are more likely than natural origins based on the body of available reports,” said a spokesman for the CIA. I said CBS. “The CIA continues to appreciate the plausibility of both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

However, the important phrase is that the CIA is still “unreliable” in Lab Leak theory.

The changes to the covid.org website are the latest in the Trump administration’s move to change federal agencies and public information sites on topics.

This story was originally introduced Fortune.com