Ralph Baric, the UNC scientist who worked with Wuhan’s top coronavirus researcher, told congressional investigators that he has long worried about biosafety protocols inside China.

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

This spring, a team working under the president’s son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did...

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky,...

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New...

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New...

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New...

A series of previously unreported alarms and clashes over US-funded research in China reveal long-standing friction between two groups of government scientists: those who prioritize international...

President Trump created a workplace culture that mostly matched his public efforts to dismiss, downplay, and distort the COVID-19 pandemic. There was just one difference: a rigorous daily testing...

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology, the cutting-edge biotech facility at the center of swirling suspicions about the pandemic’s onset, was far more troubled than previously known, explosive documents...

In December and January, a long-planned effort to vaccinate essential federal workers was thrown into turmoil, breeding suspicion, infighting, and “shameless” attempts to crash the list.

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New...

We call on our colleagues in Congress to support and pass the bipartisan National Commission on the Covid-19 Pandemic Act

He was for the COVID-19 vaccines before he was against them, but now Florida’s governor is all-in on vaccine skepticism—and hoping to use the issue to outflank Trump on the right. With the presiden...

If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them.

Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.

Over its 114-year history, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has become a global paragon when it comes to drug regulation. In the most consequential year of its existence, however, the agency—and...

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to...

Christopher Wray provides the first public confirmation of the bureau’s classified assessment of a suspected laboratory incident.

The small community of researchers studying COVID-19’s origins erupted into open conflict recently over access to data from the pandemic’s early days. With former China CDC director George F. Gao...

As health experts wrangle over whether to aggressively curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2 or let each American decide how much risk to take, the administration is sending mixed messages—and taking heat...

Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.

On March 21, two days after President Donald Trump first touted chloroquine drugs as a “gamechanger” in the fight against COVID-19, administration officials privately described what they felt was a...

President Joe Biden sat down for an exclusive interview at the White House with ABC "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir.

Trump made a mockery of American government. Now it's time for Biden to undo the damage

He was for the COVID-19 vaccines before he was against them, but now Florida’s governor is all-in on vaccine skepticism—and hoping to use the issue to outflank Trump on the right. With the presiden...

China's leaders covered up the pandemic at first — as described by doctors and other health-care professionals on the front lines.

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky,...