ANALYSIS: ‘I Hate When Politics Is Injected Into Science’: Text Messages of Top Scientists Shed Light on COVID Origin Response

Messages suggest politicized response to COVID origin concerns in attempt to protect China

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. Thomas Peter/Reuters

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A new report released by Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic includes new evidence that a group of scientists who received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), conspired to dismiss the origin of the pandemic in order to protect China.