Trump declares the laboratory flight as real origins ” of Cavid on a new website

The Trump administration has replaced the main government portal for information on COVID with a website arguing that the virus has disclosed a laboratory, throwing its weight behind a theory of the origins of the virus which is not supported by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less than the idea that it has emerged in a wild animal market.

Covid.gov and Covidtes.Gov, government websites that provided information about COVVID and allow people to order tests, now redirect to the laboratory leakage web page. Bearing an image of President Trump flanked words “laboratory leakage”, the new page is illustrated by a satellite image of Wuhan, China, the city where Covid began to spread, and says that it will describe “the real origins of Covid-19”.

The website notes that the city is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a coronavirus laboratory that had been involved in research projects that some scientists considered dangerous. He also alludes to the concerns that the laboratory had carried out his work under inappropriate security conditions. CIA officials cited these same concerns when the agency recently moved its position to promote a laboratory leak.

But the page bypasses holes in this theory – a number of major Chinese cities, for example, have laboratories that have declared that they have studied viruses like those on which the Wuhan Institute worked – and does not deal with considerable evidence from the first cases and viral genomes on which the virus has rather spread animals to the man in a wild illegal market. He also cites a number of deceptive or highly contested complaints.

The purge of old web -style websites reflects a broader practice of the Trump administration of the deletion of health sites that do not align with its opinions, including those linked to climate change and LGBTQ people. (Some of these pages were then restored.)

And that transformed what was previously the main government portals to disseminate reliable information on the virus in a vehicle to attack the political enemies of the administration, including Dr Anthony Fauci, who led a federal research institute which allocated funding for a non -profit organization to fight the virus that worked with Wuhan scientists.