Wuhan Institute of Virology

The COST Act will increase public access to information about taxpayer-funded projects, and ensure accountability in government.

Did the virus originate in a lab or emerge as a spillover from nature? There's no proof either way. But experts dug themselves in on one side or the other.

The former medical advisor to the president stressed his transparency amid fresh accusations he had engaged in a "cover-up" of COVID lab leak theory evidence.

The FBI assesses with "moderate confidence" that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

Marty Makary told the House subcommittee on the pandemic on Tuesday that all the evidence pointed to the virus entering the human population from a Chinese lab.

Kirby's remarks come after the Department of Energy reportedly concluded the virus most likely stemmed from a lab leak in Wuhan.

Mao Ning, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, called for the U.S. to "stop defaming China" in response to the reports.

The Department of Energy became the second federal agency to determine that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China.

China's first nationwide wave may have peaked in urban areas, but the virus is now sweeping through the countryside.

More than two years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the WHO finally acknowledged that a leak from a U.S.-funded lab in Wuhan may have unleashed COVID-19.

The Ohio congressman said a GOP-controlled House will look into "all the lies" from White House's chief medical adviser over the origins of coronavirus.

A pair of recently published studies found that the virus was likely transmitted to people from an animal.

Joe Rogan and Spotify have been under pressure over alleged COVID and vaccine misinformation presented in Rogan's podcast.

The Chief Medical Advisor to the President made no direct investments in China, but bought into a U.S.-based mutual fund trading in China stock.

This has been a good week for transparency—and a bad week for Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The COVID Act introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida would also see the U.S. cut the funding of research projects conducted with China's national academy.

Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with the Republican senator on Tuesday in a tense appearance before a Senate Health Committee.

The four-stop tour concluded with a visit to the American Airlines Center in Dallas on December 19.

"There were so many things that are egregious misrepresentation here," Fauci said of Paul's claims, "that I don't think I'd be able to refute all of them."

National Institutes of Health staff voiced concerns that proposed EcoHealth Alliance experiments on viruses could have made them more dangerous—known as "gain of function."

A paper from the Director of National Intelligence expanded on findings initially released in August from a 90-day review ordered by President Joe Biden.

EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak has defended the research group after the National Institutes of Health accused it of not immediately reporting engineered coronavirus study results.

The lab has come under fire for allegedly failing to immediately disclose data that showed increased coronavirus growth in mice.

"Dr. Fauci has forsaken his Hippocratic oath and exchanged it for the mantle of unchecked power," Cawthorn said a Tuesday speech.

At a moment when heightened scrutiny of the NIAID's actions is necessary, blue America seems unlikely to budge from its "Fauci, right or wrong" stand.

The NIH demand's is the latest development in the controversy surrounding EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. research group involved in coronavirus experiments.

The outgoing NIH director said COVID could not have been caused by federally funded virus research, but some scientists disagree.

Research proposed to a U.S. defense agency by EcoHealth Alliance, which would have involved the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has emerged amid the COVID lab leak debate.

Scientists have asked U.S. research group EcoHealth Alliance to drop Daszak as its president, after the organization proposed enhancing viruses as part of coronavirus research.

Activist group DRASTIC claimed unverified documents show a U.S.-led funding proposal would have involved "dangerous" coronavirus experiments.