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Trump promotes lab leak theory

A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.

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CNN Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Access to the federal website on COVID-19 is no longer publicly accessible. The Covid.gov page now automatically forwards to a new site featuring a picture of President Donald Trump and what it hypes as the “true origins of COVID-19.” This site blames the coronavirus pandemic on a lab leak from China and blasts social distancing, mask mandates and lockdowns. It also claims “public health officials often mislead the A…

White House takes over 'COVID.gov' to promote 'lab leak' origin idea

The White House has repurposed a webpage containing information about COVID-19 to promote the idea the coronavirus originated in a laboratory.A page titled “Lab

White House endorses COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory

(The Center Square) – The White House on Friday officially endorsed the theory that the COVID-19 virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab.

The Trump administration has relaunched the COVID-19 health website, claiming that the virus originated from a laboratory leak in China. Official US COVID websites such as Covid.gov and Covidtests.gov are government-run and provide information about long-term COVID-19 sequelae (Long COVID), vaccine options, and testing resources for Americans to access. However, starting from April 18, local time, the Trump administration revised the content of …

The site, which resembles a poster for a Hollywood film, shows in capital letters the title Lab Leak – laboratory leak. Between the two words stands a determined US President Donald Trump. Under the title is handwritten: "The true origins of Covid-19. On the page media, politicians, health authorities and the famous US immunologist Anthony Fauci are accused of spreading the theory of a natural origin of the virus. However, there are many indicat…