Pandemic truthers take over HHS Covid site

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Covid.gov and Covidtests.gov are no longer providing information and resources about Covid-19.

Both now redirect to a White House page promoting the “lab leak theory,” which contends that the virus originated from China ’s Wuhan Institute of Virology .

The change was shared widely by right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec , a frequent amplifier of Russian intelligencebacked ideas.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1913229239836348517 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/https://web.archive.org/web/20250410231214/https://www.covid.gov/https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/jack-posobiec-links-russian-intelligence-backed-website/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-fauci-prosecuted-maga-trump-1984607 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32284615/https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/cases https://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2019-WorldMilitaryGames-ReportDec2022.pdf https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-origin-report-controversy https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/splc-investigation-far-right-oann-anchor-jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movement/

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www.propublica.org www.whitehouse.gov x.com www.cbsnews.com web.archive.org www.splcenter.org covid.cdc.gov www.newsweek.com pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov data.who.int download.militaryonesource.mil www.science.org

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