WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2021, with studies of the coronavirus pandemic’s origins going nowhere and the issue embroiled in bitter partisan politics, David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford,…
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WHO Accuses China of Withholding Data on Covid’s Origins
The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three…
Republicans Push Lab Leak Theory on Covid’s Origins, but Lack ‘Smoking Gun’
WASHINGTON — The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accused top federal health officials on Wednesday of excluding him from discussions in early 2020 about whether…
How much should people worry about Covid’s XBB.1.5 variant? Our medical analyst explains
CNN — A new Covid-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States. In December 2022, the proportion of new Covid-19 infections due to this Omicron offshoot have increased…
How We Mourn Covid’s Victims
LONDON — Piece by piece, the Covid-19 sanctuary was born on a hilltop in the town of Bedworth in central England. The process was meant to be a metaphor for…
Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins
In the summer months of 2020, 50 percent a calendar year into the coronavirus pandemic, experts traveled into the forests of northern Laos to catch bats that might harbor close…