White house promotes Covid -19 Lab Leak theory on a new website

White house promotes Covid -19 Lab Leak theory on a new website

On Friday morning, the White House started a new website that supports the theory that the Coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, is a pathogen created by humans that has escaped from a laboratory for infectious diseases in Wuhan, China. This page enlivens a long-lasting debate about the origins of Covid 19 pandemic, which has already been examined by federal authorities, global health organizations and congress committees.

results of the CIA and Who

In January, the CIA published a report that came to the conclusion that a laboratory breakthrough is likely, but with "low confidence" in this assessment, which corresponds to similar results of the ministries for energy and foreign policy. Before that, the CIA had stated that it did not have enough information to make a clear statement about the origin of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) explained that they continue to consider all hypotheses, including a transfer of the virus of animals to people on a market in Wuhan.

The position of the Trump administration

The new website of the Trump administration goes beyond most of these reports and claims that the virus "has a biological property that does not occur in nature" and that, if it would be evidence of a natural origin, it would have already come to light, which is not the case.

changes on the website covid.gov

The federal website Covid.gov, which had previously provided information about vaccines, tests and treatments, is now transferred to the website of the White House for the laboratory explosion. While the US intelligence agencies are still open to the possibility that the virus was naturally transmitted during laboratory research, almost everyone previously agreed that it was not genetically changed. Many scientists believe that the virus was naturally created in animals and that when they broke out on the Wuhan market, they were transferred to humans. You also said that the origin of the virus may never be proven.

Comments by experts

Marty Makary, Commissioner of the US Food and Medicines Authority (FDA), defended the changes on the website during an interview with FOX News. "I think people are looking for education. The entire nightmare from Covid for more than three years could probably have been avoided if we hadn't intervened in a way with nature that should not have been," said Makary. He added that people also want answers to the long -lasting school closures and vaccination requirements.

reports and political reactions

The new side of the White House reflects a report in several aspects that was published last year by the Republican House selection committee for Coronavirus pandemic. The Republicans came to the conclusion that the virus was created in a laboratory; The Democrats published a separate report that did not conclude a final conclusion about the origins of the virus, but also called for more transparency.

Criticism of the Covid 19 measures

The new website of the White House also emphasizes as a failed measures for covid-19 control, including "lockdowns", mask duties, the financing of infection research and the "disability" by the Ministry of Health during these congress investigations. Some of these officials are named. A section of the page is the preventive pardon of President Joe Biden for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony fauci, dedicated.

future of politics for virus research

Several officials of the Trump administration, including the Minister of Health and Social Affairs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have sharply criticized the handling of the Covid 19 pandemic by the government and in particular the reaction of the bid administration. The website could prepare possible further measures on the part of the health authority, since Kennedy has criticized the comprehensive requirements for coronavirus vaccinations and controversial studies on infectious diseases, which are known as gain-of-function research. Many Republican Congressmen have also called for the government to reintroduce a ban on this type of research, which enables it to make a virus more contagious or to change other properties to study its spread.

Current guidelines for gain-of-function research

Last year, bid-official guidelines published stricter requirements for gain-of-function research, but no general bans for these studies. The guidelines should come into force next May.