2 weeks Ago
There's a lot to say about the White House's new COVID-19 web page. Before we get into it, here's what happened. The Trump administration has replaced COVID.
gov (which is now unavailable), the federal government's main source of information about the coronavirus, redirecting it to a revamped new page on whitehouse.gov called "Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID," which is riddled with misleading and conspiratorial claims about the coronavirus, asserting that the virus leaking from a lab in Wuhan, China, is the "most likely" origin. It's a theory that emerged in the early days of the pandemic and has been repeatedly disputed by health experts.
(A team of WHO-appointed scientists who flew to Wuhan in early 2021 to investigate the source of the pandemic concluded that the lab-leak theory was "extremely unlikely.") The original website, launched under Biden, promoted information about the coronavirus vaccine, treatment, and testing. The new one rewrites the historic timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role Democrats played in it, along with—you guessed.
.. Jennifer Mattson.
