The Columbia Heart Beat

Troubling questions about US involvement. Part 2 of a series

COLUMBIA, Mo 6/4/21 (Feature) -- US President Joe Biden's call for national intelligence agencies to investigate Covid 19's origins has renewed a question journalists and scientists had dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

Did the virus behind the greatest pandemic in a century come from a lab , particularly a bioweapons research lab in Wuhan, China?

 

That question during the Trump Administration prompted cries of right-wing crackpottery. But new politics brings new attitudes, which may also yield a truth more complicated, and harder to swallow, than Wuhan lab escape.

 

The funding, leadership, news, and research publication trail leads to a dist...

The China-Carolina virus?  Part One

COLUMBIA, Mo 5/27/21 (Feature) -- US President Joe Biden wants answers about the origins of Covid, the virus behind the biggest American pandemic since the 1918 flu, and a bigger menace worldwide.

Biden has tasked US intelligence agencies with a job that should have been done a year ago, and by lots of different investigators, including journalists:  find out if Covid has natural -- or unnatural -- origins .

 

A theory dismissed for over a year -- that Covid escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China -- is not only sounding more credible, but may have troubling American counterparts, including US funding and research leadership.

Covid Conspiracy?

This time last year, m...