The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the fastest-growing federal agencies of recent decades. In 1987, their budget was $590 million but by 2020 it had ballooned to over $8 billion, leading journalist Eric Boehm to observe, “If the agency had grown with inflation since …
Read More »The Covid-19 lab leak theory is back, but it’s a poor man’s ‘Iraq anthrax vial’ for China at best
Just as the World Health Assembly is kicking off, the Wuhan lab theory of Covid-19’s origin is back again. A Wall Street Journal exclusive yesterday claimed, citing “newly declassified” US intelligence, that in autumn 2019, three workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology allegedly got sick with Covid-like symptoms. This …
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