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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, 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**

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, 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**

‘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

Fauci COVID-19 Virus Doctor Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Is Dr. Fauci the ‘Father of the Pandemic?’

By Peter Navarro

Neighbors say Lt Gov Husted will meet them to discuss tweet

Associated Press

Residents visit the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Monday, March 29, 2021. (Chinatopix Via AP) ** FILE **

WHO report fails to quell questions over COVID-19 origins, possible lab leak

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday, March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

1 report, 4 theories: Scientists mull clues on virus’ origin

By DARIA LITVINOVA and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Chinese artist Yang Qian using dots to recreate an aerial view of Wuhan, China, under lockdown at her studio in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Yang, who worked as a volunteer delivering vital supplies to hospitals and residents during the city's pandemic 76-day lockdown, is using her art work to make sure that history is not forgotten. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

One Good Thing: An artist preserves Wuhan’s COVID memories

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press

Members of Wuhan FC, then known as Wuhan Zall, prepare for an internal training match in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on July 2, 2020. The club endured quite an ordeal last year after first being stranded in Spain on a preseason tour as its home city was overrun by the virus, and then fleeing the country just before the outbreak hit Europe hard. (Chinatopix via AP)

Wuhan soccer team prepares for another season in isolation

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Illustration on facebook's false allegations concerning COVID's origins by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Facebook’s false fact check protected a viable source of COVID-19: Wuhan Institute of Virology

By Bill Gertz

Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2021, file photo, members of the World Health Organization team including Ken Maeda, center, Peter Daszak, third from left and Vladmir Dedkov, fourth from left, leave after attending an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Daszak, part of the team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

AP Interview: China granted WHO team full access in Wuhan

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

Seniors wait to be vaccinated with China's Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center set up at the Carmela Carvajal school in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Chile is starting its vaccination plan for the general population on Wednesday, starting with seniors over 90 and health workers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The Latest: Mexico’s president has negative antigen test

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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)

WHO team in Wuhan says discussions open, meetings frank

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press