NIH scrubs Biden-era COVID origin narrative from website following Blaze News reporting
The National Institutes of Health told Blaze News on Friday that it updated its website to remove claims from the previous administration that dismissed the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
'The NIH has removed these factually incorrect positions from the last administration.'
As of Thursday, an NIH webpage stated:
Unfortunately, because the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been identified, misleading and false allegations have been made about NIAID-supported research on naturally occurring bat coronaviruses. Specifically, these allegations have targeted research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, funded through a subaward from NIAID grantee EcoHealth Alliance. The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied through this subaward were significantly, genetically different from SARS-CoV-2 and, therefore, could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blaze News contacted the NIH, inquiring whether it was aware of the webpage — which was last reviewed in March 2022 — and if it had plans to update its website to remove statements that the lab leak theory was a hoax.
The NIH responded on Friday, stating that it had recently updated the website.
Department of Health and Human Services communications director Andrew Nixon stated, "The Biden era NIH position on origin of the COVID pandemic — that the lab leak theory is a 'conspiracy theory' — is out of line with the considerable scientific and forensic evidence to the contrary. The NIH has removed these factually incorrect positions from the last administration."
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Blaze News confirmed that as of Friday afternoon, the NIH had taken down the webpage. It now reads, "You are not authorized to access this page."
Nixon added that the "true origin" of the virus could be found on the White House's website, which states that COVID-19 "possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature" and that the data supports that cases stemmed from "a single introduction into humans." The website further notes the Wuhan lab's "history of conducting gain-of-function research ... at inadequate biosafety levels."
The Trump administration's National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya was one of the prominent voices during the COVID era insisting that there was a cover-up regarding the origins of the virus.
Bhattacharya told Politico in May that he is "convinced" the research experiments in Wuhan, China, "led to this pandemic through a lab leak."
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COVID lab leak denial lingers on NIH’s website: 'Misleading and false'
Allegations that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak were strongly and swiftly denied by the former Biden administration and some prominent health officials, despite dissenting opinions within the medical field, including from Jay Bhattacharya, who now serves as President Donald Trump's National Institutes of Health director.
'I'm convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan.'
A page on the NIH's website, last reviewed by the agency on March 16, 2022, has not yet been updated by the new administration, still claiming that the leak theory is "misleading and false."
The NIH webpage reads:
Unfortunately, because the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been identified, misleading and false allegations have been made about NIAID-supported research on naturally occurring bat coronaviruses. Specifically, these allegations have targeted research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, funded through a subaward from NIAID grantee EcoHealth Alliance. The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied through this subaward were significantly, genetically different from SARS-CoV-2 and, therefore, could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bhattacharya was one of the voices amid the COVID-era insisting that there was a cover-up of the virus' origins.
In a May interview with Politico, Bhattacharya stated that he believes the U.S. should do more to reveal the origins of the virus, but noted that China has not been cooperating with those investigations.
"There's enough evidence that I've seen from the outside that suggests that there was at the very least a cover-up of dangerous experiments that were done in China with — by the way — the help of the U.S. and also Germany and the U.K.," Bhattacharya told the news outlet.
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He referred to the experiments as "a very, very dangerous kind of utopian research agenda."
"I'm convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan," Bhattacharya continued. "But that was a global effort."
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He called it "absolutely striking" that then-Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and other leaders would invest so much effort into suppressing the theory and "denigrating scientists who very legitimately raised this possibility."
Blaze News contacted the NIH to determine whether it is aware of the webpage dismissing lab leak claims and if it plans to update its website. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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DOJ Can Dig Up Even More Evidence U.S. Taxpayers Funded Lab Creation Of Covid-19
The closest point of access that we have to the Wuhan lab is Dr. Peter Daszak. DOJ needs to start asking him questions.NIH staffers storm out as Bhattacharya delivers reality bombshell about COVID origin
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya hosted his first staff town hall on Monday.
The event, held on the NIH's main campus in Bethesda, Maryland, was packed with nearly 500 attendees and even more individuals tuning in online to watch Bhattacharya answer some of the 1,200 submitted questions, Science reported.
'If it's true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, and if you look at polls of the American people, that's what most people believe.'
Yet when Bhattacharya attempted to answer a question about the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak, many staffers fled the room in apparent protest.
Ahead of his response, Bhattacharya noted that some of those attending the event would likely disagree with his perspective.
"It's possible that the pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings. And it's also possible that the NIH partly sponsored that research," Bhattacharya told the crowd.
He appeared to pause as dozens of NIH staffers stood up and left the room.
"It's nice to have free speech. You're welcome, you guys," he said, apparently addressing the protesters.
Some attendees who remained responded with applause.
Bhattacharya continued, "If it's true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, and if you look at polls of the American people, that's what most people believe. And I've looked at the scientific evidence I believe in."
"What we have to do is make sure that we do not engage in research that's posing any risk to any human populations," he added.
Anything else?
A Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's minority staff report drafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that President Donald Trump's administration had "effectively" slashed the NIH's budget by $2.7 billion in the first three months of the year.
"Trump's war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer," Sanders said. "The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires."
The Department of Health and Human Services has labeled Sanders' claims as "unequivocally false."
"The report released by his office today is a politically motivated distortion that undermines the thousands of dedicated public health professionals across HHS, who remain steadfast in their commitment to delivering results for the American people," HHS stated.
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Trump bans funding for controversial gain-of-function research
President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning gain-of-function research on pandemic pathogens that many believe was the true source of the coronavirus pandemic.
The research typically involves modification of existing viruses in order to make them more infectious and studying the outcomes in order to prevent and treat possible pandemics.
'Researchers have not acknowledged the legitimate potential for societal harms that this kind of research poses.'
After the global pandemic, many theorized that the source of the virus was a laboratory leak involving gain-of-function research, possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The theory was initially ridiculed as a racist conspiracy theory by many, but has since been corroborated by more evidence.
The administration said the order would "drastically reduce" lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research "like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Trump's order ends federal funding for the research in countries like China, Iran, and others without sufficient oversight. It also orders U.S. agencies to identify such research that might imperil public safety and end federal funding for any programs.
"For decades, policies overseeing gain-of-function research on pathogens, toxins, and potential pathogens have lacked adequate enforcement, transparency, and top-down oversight," read a fact sheet from the administration. "Researchers have not acknowledged the legitimate potential for societal harms that this kind of research poses."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was among the most prominent critics of the lab-leak theory and defended the use of gain-of-function research.
"President Trump has long theorized that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and has consistently pushed for transparency in investigating its origins," said the statement from the administration.
The Obama, Biden, and first Trump administrations all previously implemented policies pausing or limiting gain-of-function research.
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Trump obliterates Biden’s COVID rules for good
The Trump administration has wasted no time completely revamping the COVID-19 narrative — and has now made it official on the White House website.
The website now has a COVID-19 section, which goes into great detail explaining “misinformation” related to the virus.
“Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions,” the website reads.
“When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to ‘outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent,’” it continues.
The website also highlights that Anthony Fauci was given a full and unconditional pardon by former President Biden.
“It is so refreshing to see this White House,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.
“I’m glad we all trusted the plan,” BlazeTV contributor John Doyle chimes in. “We were so angry when everyone started to realize what a sham this was, we were angry with Trump for promoting it, but I will say, I think that we get a little hindsight bias and forget how freaked out even Republicans, like older Republicans, were about COVID.”
“I would just say, their entire argument was ‘trust the experts.’ So if that’s their argument, then again, it’s Anthony Fauci’s fault, because Donald Trump was trusting the expert that they placed in front of him and said, ‘This is the guy,’” Gonzales says.
“So Donald Trump wasn’t in there in a lab with little droppers trying to figure things out; he was trusting the people that he was supposed to be able to trust,” she adds.
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White House endorses COVID lab leak theory, but will anyone be held accountable?
On April 18, the White House publicly endorsed the COVID lab leak theory. The government’s official COVID website was also redirected to a new page titled “Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19,” which contends that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and was leaked by accident.
The revamped site criticizes Anthony Fauci, David Morens, Andrew Cuomo, the WHO, EcoHealth Alliance, and the Biden administration, among others, for actively promoting false information and covering up the truth.
It cites five points to support the lab leak claim:
1. “The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.”
2. “Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”
3. “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”
4. “Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”
5. “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”
After years of the Biden administration and his loyal media allies promoting a lie, it’s refreshing to see the government proclaim the truth.
But while Glenn Beck sees the website as “an amazing thing,” the information on it isn’t exactly news.
“Most of this stuff we had within six or eight months of the actual outbreak,” he says.
The real question is: “Who’s going to jail over this?”
The other question is: Why doesn’t the legacy media seem interested in correcting the narrative?
“Millions of people died here. You'd think that it would be something [the media] would focus on and draw a lot of attention to and continue to kind of beat the drum until someone was held responsible, and they don't seem to have any interest in that,” says co-host Stu Burguiere, noting that most of these outlets “have run an op-ed” about the lab leak theory and called it good.
“If we make a mistake, we correct it because it drives us crazy that we made the mistake, and I don’t want anybody to believe that I’m standing behind something that is wrong and a lie,” says Glenn.
The legacy media clearly doesn’t have the same convictions.
“They knowingly lied” about COVID, Joe Biden’s cognitive state, and Russiagate, and yet, “There’s no consequence.”
“They’re not going to lose any advertisers. The New York Times hasn't lost any real money because of this. Their people just continue to watch,” says Glenn.
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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White House drops a trove of evidence in support of the laboratory leak theory of the coronavirus pandemic
The White House published a website Friday with the evidence bolstering the laboratory leak theory for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
The lab leak theory was derided and ridiculed by the left and the mainstream media as a "racist" conspiracy theory meant to smear the Chinese government, but more and more evidence shows that the theory is likely true.
'They would rather we not uncover what really happened. They want us to just move on.'
The official story of the pandemic had claimed that the virus was likely sourced from the Wuhan wet markets in China, where exotic animals were often butchered in open air and eaten by humans who risked infection. Critics of that view pointed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was actively studying coronavirus infections in bats.
The website documents all of the evidence that has since been revealed in support of the lab leak theory.
A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
Much of the evidence points to involvement from the U.S. in the laboratories that were later identified as possible sources of the coronavirus leak.
EcoHealth — under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak — used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. After the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commenced official debarment proceedings and suspended all funding to EcoHealth.
New evidence also shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.
The website also lays out the argument that many of the pandemic shutdown policies were known to be of dubious efficacy.
The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation — which shut down schools and small business across the country — was arbitrary and not based on science. During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance “sort of just appeared.”
Among the most virulent opponents of the lab leak was Anthony Fauci, who had been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic. The website outlined how Fauci was involved with many of the main players who tried to cover up the evidence of a lab leak origin.
More of the evidence for the lab leak theory was documented in the BlazeTV documentary series "The Coverup" presented by Blaze Media and Free the People.
"Free the People produced 'The Coverup' to shine light on the shadowy government figures who caused so much pain and suffering with their tyrannical overreach during the pandemic," said BlazeTV host Matthew B. Kibbe. "They would rather we not uncover what really happened. They want us to just move on."
Here's some of the BlazeTV news video reporting on the lab leak theory:
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COVID cover-up exposed: New York Times article reveals conspiracy theorists were right all along
Five years ago, Americans were locked down to stop the spread of COVID-19, but they weren’t allowed to ask questions. Specifically, questions regarding “the science.”
Which is why it’s shocking that a recent New York Times op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci, titled “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives,” was even allowed to be published.
“Take the real story behind two very influential publications that quite early in the pandemic cast the lab leak theory as baseless. The first was a March 2020 paper in the journal Nature Medicine, which was written by five prominent scientists and declared that no ‘laboratory-based scenario’ for the pandemic virus was plausible,” Tufekci writes.
“We later learned through congressional subpoenas of their Slack conversations, that while the scientists publicly said the scenario was implausible, privately, many of its authors considered the scenario not just plausible, but likely,” the author continues.
The article reveals that evolutionary biologist Christian Anderson wrote in those Slack messages that “the lab escape version of the story is so freakin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work, and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
“Now, that’s kind of a big thing, right? They’re admitting this. You might remember. You might not remember how far this cover-up went,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments.
The article goes on to claim that Jeremy Farrar, who is now the chief scientist at the World Health Organization, suggested that the scientists researching the origins of COVID-19 rule out the lab leak theory “even more directly.”
Stu, while disturbed by the findings, is surprised that the New York Times is publishing a story calling this out — when it was guilty of this itself.
“The New York Times wrote about this stuff all the time and shamed people all the time for this type of stuff,” he says, adding, “and they went even farther than that.”
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