Overview

• The federal COVID-19 website, covid.gov, now redirects to a White House page titled 'Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19,' marking a significant shift in messaging.
• The page asserts that the coronavirus likely originated from gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing a House GOP report and a low-confidence CIA assessment.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials are accused of promoting the natural origin theory and obstructing investigations into the lab leak hypothesis.
• The page critiques pandemic-era public health measures such as mask mandates, lockdowns, and social distancing, claiming they lacked scientific basis and caused harm.
• All content on the site is sourced from the House Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic report, which concluded a lab leak as the most plausible origin.