Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health ...

The lab leak theory in a nutshell ... Andrew Noymer is associate professor in population health & disease prevention at the ...

Weissman was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Katalin Karikó for discoveries which made COVID-19 ...

A CIA spokesperson said in January that the CIA has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature. The CIA said at the time it had "low confidence ...

Germany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

There is no consensus on the cause of the Covid pandemic. The lab leak hypothesis has been hotly contested by scientists, including many who say there is no definitive evidence to back it up.

The lab leak theory in a nutshell ... Andrew Noymer is associate professor in population health & disease prevention at the Joe C Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University ...