NY Times Publishes Op-ed Admitting COVID Likely Originated from Wuhan Lab

Antonino Cambria : Mar 19, 2025
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On March 16, the New York Times published an op-ed acknowledging that COVID-19 likely originated in the infamous Wuhan lab and that government health officials purposely misled the public.

[LifeSiteNews.com] The New York Times has published an opinion piece admitting that COVID-19 was likely leaked from the Wuhan lab in China and that key government officials covered it up. (Screengrab image: via Daily Mail)

In a March 16 op-ed in the New York Times, writer Zeynep Tufekci acknowledged that COVID-19 likely originated in the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that government health officials in America purposely misled the public. The piece represents a major break from the paper's previous reporting which denounced the lab leak hypothesis as a "conspiracy theory."  

"When Wuhan experienced an outbreak of a novel coronavirus related to ones found in bats and researchers soon noticed the pathogen had the same rare genetic feature that the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan researchers had proposed inserting into bat coronaviruses, you would think EcoHealth would sound the alarm far and wide," Tufekci wrote. "It did not. Were it not for public records requests, leaks and subpoenas, the world might never have learned about the troubling similarities between what could easily have been going on inside the lab and what was spreading through the city."

Tufekci then highlighted that while health officials and experts publicly said the lab leak scenario was implausible, congressional subpoenas of conversations between these officials reveal that privately they knew the scenario was not only plausible but highly likely. However, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, who is now the head scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), made sure the theory was publicly denounced in a paper... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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