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Workers in PPE overalls guard an entrance to a community under lock down on Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Beijing. A fast-spreading variant known as &quot;stealth omicron&quot; is testing China's zero-tolerance strategy, which had kept the virus at bay since the deadly initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s Wuhan institute studied deadly bioterrorism agent, Congress told

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - A worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital, China on Feb. 6, 2021. Experts drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began. They say they need a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

WHO: COVID origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study

By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Illustration on the need to investigate the source of COVID-19 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What we have learned can stop the next pandemic, if we can act

By Sen. Roger Marshall and Steven Quay

In this file photo, China's military personnel perform near a display showing the navy's aircraft carrier in a segment of a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on Monday, June 28, 2021. China’s military has carried out a test of a bomb designed to destroy U.S. Navy bases and civilian ports, setting off an underwater explosion in simulating an attack at a Chinese naval port on a “hostile high-piled wharf,” the state-run Global Times reported Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

China tests port-destroying bomb

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on Dr. Fauci's culpability with COVID-19 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Dr. Fauci’s deadly lie of omission

By Peter Navarro

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit this week by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Failure to report coronavirus-experiment findings renews Wuhan lab controversy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit this week by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘Greatest cover-up of all time’: House GOP presents evidence of COVID-19 origins, Wuhan lab leak

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China's National Health Commission, speaks at a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Zeng said Thursday he was shocked by the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a COVID-19 origins study. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China rebuffs WHO’s push for COVID-19 origins study: ‘Disregards common sense and defies science’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Wuhan Lab Bats and Believing in Science Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Top Biden officials finally admit COVID-19 could have emerged from Wuhan lab

By Joseph Curl

Jon Stewart talks about the possible origins of COVID-19 with "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert, June 14, 2021. (Image: YouTube, "The Late Show with Stephen Cobert" video screenshot)

Jon Stewart: Wuhan lab leak denial like rejecting Hershey role in Pa. ‘chocolatey goodness outbreak’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

Tony Fauci’s cover-up leaves blood on his hands

By Peter Navarro

First lady Jill Biden, center left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speak to a person as they visit a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Fauci poses for selfies, shakes hands in NYC after rough-and-tumble week

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

U.S. officials feared COVID origins probe would reveal NIH funds to Wuhan lab: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Dr. Fauci defends COVID-19 record in wake of email dump

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP, File) ** FILE **

U.S. eyes coronavirus modified in Wuhan as possible ‘backbone’ behind pandemic

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Media opts for frenzy of cartoonish smears over COVID-19’s likely source

By Tammy Bruce

In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP, File) ** FILE **

‘More likely than not’ COVID-19 originated in Wuhan lab, key GOP lawmaker says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this May 13, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Biden is asking U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. After months of minimizing the possibility that the coronavirus emerged from a lab accident, the administration is responding to both U.S. and world pressure for China to be more open about the outbreak. Biden said Wednesday there is insufficient evidence to conclude “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Don’t bet on Biden to hold China accountable for COVID-19

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, May 20, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington. Biden is asking U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble” efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. He says there is insufficient evidence to conclude “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Inside the Ring: Biden team shuts down State Department’s COVID-19 probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by a friend of Cai Wei, Cai Wei poses for a photo in Beijing in June, 2018. More than a year after two young men, including Cai Wei, disappeared from their Beijing homes, they are set to be tried Tuesday, May 11, 2021 in a case that illustrates the Chinese government's growing online censorship and sensitivity to any criticism of its COVID-19 response. (Friend of Cai Wei via AP)

2 face trial as China enforces online control amid pandemic

By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press