On Friday, the White House relaunched its COVID-19 information website, unveiling a sleek new landing page dedicated to the “true origins” of the pandemic.
COVID.gov, previously ballyhooing the testing, treatment and vaccination against the coronavirus, now redirects to this website.
Criticizing both the Biden administration and former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic, the website indicates that the Trump administration now embraces the theory that COVID-19 leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China. One section reads as follows:
PROXIMAL ORIGIN PUBLICATION:
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV‑2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.
GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH:
A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE INC. (ECOHEALTH):
EcoHealth — under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak — used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. After the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commenced official debarment proceedings and suspended all funding to EcoHealth.
New evidence also shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.
NIH FAILURES:
NIH’s procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable, and pose a serious threat to both public health and national security. Further, NIH fostered an environment that promoted evading federal record keeping laws — as seen through the actions of Dr. David Morens and “FOIA Lady” Marge Moore.
And that’s not the half of it; there’s a lot more.
At the bottom of the page it says that the page’s content was “sourced from the House Oversight Committee website, a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Readers of Paul Jacob’s weekday commentary on this website (thisiscommonsense.org) will be surprised by none of this — except, perhaps, that the administration of the president who awarded Dr. Fauci a “Medal of Freedom” admits to so much of the anti-freedom nature of the pandemic response.
Some excusing, though, of Trump’s role in the pandemic debacle can be seen in this passage: “Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.”
Just “prolonged” lockdowns? No mention of the president’s early support of them?
Finally, one aspect is catching some attention: a short section on President Joe Biden’s pardon of Dr. Fauci. Tim Pool speculates that this indicates that the Trump administration is readying itself — or at least sending out “feelers” — for an arrest and indictment of Fauci.
As to be expected, Dr. John Campbell has expressed, with candor, his approval of the White House’s newfound candor.