The following is a lightly edited excerpt from Sen. Rand Paul’s new book “Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up.” It can be purchased here.
In late February of 2023, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department of Energy now acknowledged that COVID likely leaked from a Wuhan lab.
David Relman, a Stanford University microbiologist and one of the authors of regulatory reform for gain-of-function research, commented on the DOE’s new conclusions: “Kudos to those who are willing to set aside their preconceptions and objectively re-examine what we know and don’t know about Covid origins…. My plea is that we not accept an incomplete answer or give up because of political expediency.”
The Wall Street Journal story that revealed the DOE’s new conclusion on COVID’s origin reminded readers that “U.S. State Department cables written in 2018 and internal Chinese documents show that there were persistent concerns about China’s biosafety procedures, which have been cited by proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis.”
