Coronavirus
April 28, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of David Morens, who was a Senior Adviser to Anthony Fauci during the covid era. The indictment includes allegations against two co-conspirators, who have been identified as Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Institute. EcoHealth Alliance is the nonprofit that got grant money from the
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March 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The international covid shutdowns were among the worst public policy disasters (or crimes) of modern times, and yet there has been no accountability. In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan sums up the effects of the shutdowns on Britain: “Six years on, the Covid lockdowns are still ruining our lives.” Was there truly a legal argument about whether a Scotch egg counted as a meal? Were we actually offered guidance on the
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February 7, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Shouldn’t this be a bigger deal? From the New York Post. People fell ‘deathly ill’ after entering Las Vegas Airbnb with alleged Chinese-linked biolab, witness claims. The Post reports, Officials said the property belonged to Jia Bei Zhu, 62, a man already under federal custody after allegedly running an unauthorized biolab in Reedley, California, in 2023. Zhu is accused of manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices, including tests for COVID-19,
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November 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This is one of those stories that seem impossible, but are obviously important if true. FBI Director Kash Patel, appearing on a podcast, reportedly suggested that CIA Director Gina Haspel bribed intelligence officers to go along with the Democrats’ theory of covid origins: FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell during a recent interview with Glenn Beck…. *** Patel reminded Beck that the team briefed Trump based on the intelligence
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October 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
COVID-19 was a godsend for left-wingers around the world. The “pandemic” justified anything and everything. Shut down schools, even though kids were not at risk? Check. Shut down small businesses? Check. Shut down churches? Check. Make people wear idiotic masks? Check. Shut down liquor stores? Don’t even think about it! Shut down Targets and Walmarts? No way. Shut down left-wing protests and demonstrations? Of course not. The whole thing was
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May 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the June 2025 issue of the World Spectator, Matt Ridley invites readers to compare and contrast the treatment of He Jiankui in the matter of his editing gene experiments with that of Dr. She Zhengli in the matter of his far more dangerous gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Ridley’s column runs under the headline “Why won’t scientists condemn Wuhan?” In the case of He versus Shi,
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May 25, 2025 — Bill Glahn
As we mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd today (May 25), I want to note another upcoming, related, fifth anniversary. May 25, 2020, was Memorial Day Monday. As the events were unfolding that afternoon, in what eventually would be renamed George Floyd Square, I was flying in an airplane across the country to attend to a family emergency. I was one of only about 10 passengers on that commercial
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May 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the Manhattan Institute 2024 President’s Update, Reihan Salam noes that Martin Kulldorf’s essay “Harvard tramples the truth” was City Journal’s most-read story last year. Dr. Kulldorf tells his story of the suppression of truth by academic and public-health in the first person: I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired.
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March 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I had the high privilege and distinct honor of being banned (illegally, when I posed a critical question by email) from the daily press briefings conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health during Governor Tim Walz’s reign of terror. Jan Malcolm served as Walz Commissioner of Health during the reign of terror. Over at Healthy Skeptic, my law school classmate Kevin Roche was by far the most reliable commenter on
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March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It is now just about universally acknowledged that the covid-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where gain of function research was being conducted with the support of the U.S. government. This was vociferously denied for years by Western governments, apparently because they were afraid to cross the Chinese Communist Party. But it came out a few days ago that Germany knew all along that covid-19 was a
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January 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One of the worst aspects of the covid fiasco of 2020 was the shutting down of “nonessential” or “elective” medical care. Worldwide, many thousands of checkups, routine procedures and so on were foregone, with consequences that will unfold over the coming decades. The World Health Organization has undertaken a study to find out how many cancer cases were “missed” during the covid epidemic, mostly because of shutdowns. The Telegraph relates
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December 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
According to “the dominant view” of the American intelligence community, the presence of the Wuhan Virology Institute in the town where the Covid virus originated was just a big coincidence. That’s how I would paraphrase this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal “Exclusive” “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak.” The Journal reports: The dominant view within the intelligence community was clear when Avril
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December 2, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
President Trump’s choice to run the Centers for Disease Control is David Weldon, a physician, former congressman and critic of the CDC and its vaccine policies. Before he deals with those, Weldon might chase down a CDC alum who played a strategic role in the pandemic but has managed to escape accountability. That would be Dr. Nancy Messonnier, longtime director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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November 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jay Bhattacharya has been nominated by President Trump to head the National Institutes of Health. During the Covid regime, Dr. Bhattacharya was relegated to the “fringe” by the likes of former NIH head Francis Collins and his NIAID colleague Anthony “fallacious” Fauci. John Tierney observes at City Journal that Jay-B is the doctor who came in from the fringe: Four years ago, Jay Bhattacharya was ostracized by his colleagues at
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September 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In 2019, the Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis. Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership to heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act. After more than 40 years in the public health arena,
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August 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In his timely assessment of RFK Jr’s shift to Trump, Roger Kimball explains: Kennedy noted that he and Trump were not in agreement on every issue. But, he said, they were at one about several important policies, including “ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, and getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of
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August 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared an emergency on March 25, 2020, and ruled by decree for the following 15 months. His rule was arbitrary, petty, deceitful, tyrannical, and hugely destructive to life, liberty, jobs, commerce, and family. The declaration of emergency was itself predicated on a lie. All in all, the era of one-man rule gave us a picture of Walz in full. It wasn’t long — about two weeks
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