Announcement About COVID-19 Origins

Jeff Charles / Townhall Tipsheet 

The White House on Friday updated its website to declare that COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak in China, conf"irming a theory many had about the origins of the coronavirus.

 The website includes a guide detailing how the pandemic truly began, countering the earlier narrative that it emerged from an outdoor market and from people eating bats.

The White House claims, “’The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally.”

The page contains various facts about how the coronavirus came to be. “The virus possess a biological characteristic that is not found in nature,” the White House states. “Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.” Read more here.