Coronavirus

First, it was supposedly a conspiracy theory. Then, it was banned. Finally, it was true. The so-called “lab leak” theory of the origins of COVID-19 -- the theory that COVID-19 originated in at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then was unintentionally loosed -- was always the most probable explanation for the outbreak of the deadly virus.

Though he had been back for a few weeks since the February 1 birth of his daughter with wife and Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn, Wednesday marked Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy’s first White House briefing since January 27. Not surprisingly, he was still prepared as he grilled the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on whether President Biden is “afraid of…

With the Department of Energy and the FBI now admitting that evidence points to the virology lab in Wuhan, China as the origin for COVID-19, the cast of ABC’s The View was finally ready to start accepting that idea as the best obtainable version of the truth. But to combat the fact many conservatives and Republicans had been focused on the lab for years, the cast found fault Wednesday…

With CPAC on the horizon, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I dive into the liberal media’s hostility to the lab leak theory for COVID-19’s origin and how they’re now blaming former President Trump’s criticism of China for rejecting it.

The House Select Committee on China held its first hearing Tuesday night on the rising threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party as its seeks to grow its foreign influence and reach global supremacy. The hearing was extremely bipartisan, but despite that rare example of Congress working together, Disney-owned ABC’s Good Morning America chose to stay in the good graces of the…

Joe Scarborough has denounced as a "conspiracy theory" the notion that Covid originated in a Chinese-communist government-controlled lab in Wuhan. But the day after FBI Director announced that it was "most likely" that the virus did indeed originate in that Wuhan lab, Scarborough was, without explanation other than a mention that he had the "day off," absent from Morning Joe.  Meanwhile, Don…

The Washington Post and CNBC tried to wokescold Twitter owner Elon Musk for advancing the Wuhan COVID-19 lab leak theory. The outlets attempted to achieve this by pushing … Communist Chinese state propaganda.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel does not like being reminded that he once dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a lab leak, so on his Tuesday show he compared Fox News’s Tucker Carlson to “diarrhea” while blaming him and others for anti-Asian violence in America.

The Hill needs to find a new synonym for "pounce" since the "seized" and "jump" in their article to describe Republican reactions to the Energy Department giving credence to the Wuhan lab leak theory have already become clichés.

The Department of Energy now believes it’s likely the Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a biolab leak in Wuhan, China, vindicating three years of dissenting conservatives who were smeared as not only wrong but racist for advocating a theory about the origins of Covid that is now the official hypothesis of yet another government agency. Yet the relatively sober new coverage belies the paper’s…

In something resembling then-Senator John Kerry’s infamous ‘I was for it before I was against’ bungle, NewsNation primetime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo opened Monday’s edition of his eponymous show by touting how he had reported on the lab leak origin theory of COVID in 2020, before The Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department’s findings in 2023. But he omitted how he bashed…

With the sudden news Sunday night via The Wall Street Journal that the Biden Department of Energy believes COVID-19 came via a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Monday’s White House press briefing featured one hardball after another for both Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her main crutch John Kirby of the National Security Council. However, the “big three”…

Monday provided the late night comedians their first opportunity to react to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting that the Department of Energy has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a lab leak. Of those who covered the story, most dismissed it due to the DOE having “low confidence” in its conclusion.

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report that the United States Energy Department under President Joe Biden concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. While this may be news to some Americans, conservatives have believed this what the most likely cause of the pandemic for the past three years. During this time they were…