White House slams Covid cover up and handling of the pandemic

The White House has gone to extraordinary lengths to deliver its verdict on Covid’s origins and taken massive swipes at the Biden administration over its response to the deadly pandemic.

The White House revamped its Covid-19 information website on Friday, unveiling a sleek new landing page dedicated to the “true origins” of the pandemic.

Covid.gov, which previously contained information about testing, treatment and vaccination against the coronavirus, now redirects to a website that reads, “Lab Leak: True Origins of Covid-19”.

According to the New York Post, the webpage slams both the Biden administration and former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic — and indicates that the Trump administration is fully onboard with the theory that Covid-19 leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 coronavirus, wearing protective gear are seen during their visit to the Hubei Center for animal disease control and prevention in Wuhan, in February 2021. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

The new website lays out five reasons why Covid-19 likely originated from a Chinese lab:

•“The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.”

•Data shows that all Covid-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”

•“Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”

•“Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with Covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before Covid-19 was discovered at the wet market.”

•“By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”

The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

The information is sourced from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which released a comprehensive, 557-page report on its findings in December 2024.

The House panel concluded that Covid-19 likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where research group EcoHealth Alliance was conducting taxpayer-funded experiments on coronaviruses.

The FBI, the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and several former federal officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, have reached the same conclusion.

“A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of Covid-19,” reads a section on the new White House webpage. “Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.”

The website accuses the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, EcoHealth Alliance, top Anthony Fauci adviser David Morens and New York’s Executive Chamber (led by Governor Kathy Hochul) of “obstruction,” charging that they hindered the House probe into the origins of Covid-19 and the government’s response to the pandemic which killed more than 1.2 million Americans.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024. Picture: Mandel Ngan/AFP

The webpage also spotlights the “full and unconditional” pardon former President Joe Biden issued Fauci shortly before leaving office, which covers actions taken by the former Covid czar going back to 2014.

Another section focuses on New York’s “pandemic failures,” namely Cuomo’s March 25, 2020, order, which “forced nursing homes to accept Covid-19 positive patients.”

“Evidence shows that Mr Cuomo and his Administration worked to cover up the tragic aftermath of their policy decisions in an apparent effort to shield themselves from accountability,” the section states, adding that evidence points to Cuomo also making “knowingly and wilfully” false statements House panel investigating the pandemic.

A spokesperson for the former governor did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

This story first appeared in the New York Post.

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