The Biden administration unlawfully hid a 2022 report revealing that seven United States service members likely contracted Covid-19 at the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, in October 2019—months before the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic in March 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. In February, researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology announced the discovery of a new bat coronavirus that closely resembles Covid. Markets dipped.
Americans are right to be concerned. After the 2020 pandemic, our scientific elite—personified by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022—should have come clean about the pandemic’s laboratory origin, admitted the Wuhan lab’s risky gain-of-function research was a giant mistake that cost millions of lives, canceled funding and partnerships with China, and rallied global health authorities to drive higher safety standards and a worldwide ban on suicidal virus experimentation.