White House Blames China Lab Leak for COVID-19 Origins

The White House has launched a revamped COVID-19 website promoting the theory that the coronavirus was a man-made virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, criticizing former President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the World Health Organization (WHO) for their handling and communication around the pandemic. The website asserts that the virus possesses biological characteristics not found in nature and cites the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s history of risky research and reports of employees displaying COVID-like symptoms before the initial outbreak. It also claims that public health officials, including Fauci, pushed narratives to discredit the lab leak theory, and criticizes pandemic control measures such as mask mandates and lockdowns. U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI, have shifted their stance, now suggesting a lab leak is more likely, though with varying degrees of confidence, while China rejects these claims and accuses the U.S. of politicizing the issue. The Biden administration is accused by the website of impeding investigations into the pandemic’s origins. The debate over the virus’s origin remains unresolved, with both natural and lab-based scenarios still considered plausible by some experts.