Covert Pathogen Watch

The May 2020 death of PLA-affiliated researcher Zhou Yusen—after he arranged a November 2018 shipment of coronavirus-related vials to University of...

Fauci pleaded the Fifth on every question about Wuhan lab origins at a Senate hearing, despite diary entries showing he knew early the market was not...

• Military shipment intercepted: Three undeclared coronavirus vials from PLA-linked scientist Yusen Zhou reached Detroit airport en route to Fang Li...

Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment repeatedly when pressed on NIH coordination with intelligence agencies, Wuhan lab oversight, Shi Zhengli's...

The US has enacted a new policy banning federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research in countries lacking adequate biosafety standards,...

Rand Paul's release of Fauci's 1,100-page diary exposes private early doubts on COVID origins that clashed with public messaging.

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25% seropositivity for H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b was detected among domestic cats sampled within 2 km of affected dairy farms in California's Central...

Tomorrow's Senate hearing offers a rare chance to probe gain-of-function oversight lapses and lab-leak suppression tied to SARS-CoV-2 origins.

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Fauci's Feb. 1, 2020 diary notes show that during a key conference call, only two of twelve scientists backed a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2 while...

• Fauci's January 2020 entries record scientists raising the furin cleavage site and possible accidental or deliberate lab release of COVID-19
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FBI's bioweapons unit seized coronavirus vials covertly shipped by China's PLA toward Minnesota virologist Fang Li's lab in 2018, flagging a national...

No significant updates today.

Scientists behind the influential natural-origin paper privately doubted their own conclusions and couldn't rule out a lab leak, even as they publicly...

Newly released documents show U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to a U.S.–China coronavirus research...

Baric GOF Admissions

• 🔥 Explicit Confirmation: Ralph Baric stated in Senate testimony that DARPA's 2018 solicitation for cross-species jumping...

Ralph Baric confirmed DARPA's PREEMPT program explicitly solicited gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses.

His lab would have inserted furin...

Ralph Baric directly admitted in Senate testimony that the DEFUSE proposal's plan to insert a furin cleavage site into a bat coronavirus backbone was...

DARPA's 2001 Biofutures report proposed shifting biology to start inside computers, using models to predict drug responses, gene knockouts, and...

Biden’s FBI ordered Customs to stand down on a planned secondary inspection of Peter Daszak returning from Wuhan, despite officers flagging his...

Newly released documents show CBP prepared a Tactical Terrorism Response Team exam for Peter Daszak's February 2021 return from the WHO Wuhan mission...