Newly obtained emails have revealed that scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been in the spotlight as a potential ground zero for COVID-19, visited Dr. Anthony Fauci’s institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2017, only a few months before the NIH lifted a pause on high-risk virology research.
Speculation has been rife on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the first cases of COVID-19 appeared near the Wuhan lab in late 2019. Initially, the hypothesis that COVID could have resulted from a lab leak was dismissed by some prominent figures in the field, including Dr. Fauci. However, many experts persevered with their independent analyses, which three years later has even seen government agencies begin to concede that a lab leak remains a possible source of the outbreak.
