COVID-19 origins

From the recent investigation in Wuhan and beyond, the WHO is staking its credibility on the word of a malicious actor.

As expected, the team made few definitive pronouncements – other than ruling out the theory that the virus originally leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

The WHO team's activities will be closely watched -- figuratively by the world, and literally by the Chinese government.

As a global team arrives to investigate the pandemic’s origins, China is seeing a rare surge in its infections.

Earlier this week, the WHO head expressed his disappointment at a “last minute” halt to a planned experts’ visit.

China’s government is only allowing hand-picked research teams to look into the origins of COVID-19 – and keeping tight control over any findings.

China’s new focus on testing packaging comes amid a media push to claim that frozen food imports brought the virus to Wuhan in the first place.

Insights from Xun Zhou.

Reports about the connection between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wuhan Institute of Virology risk feeding conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.

China’s wildlife trade, believed to be the origin of the new coronavirus, was encouraged as a way to lift rural workers out of poverty.