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STAT+: White House trumpets Covid lab leak theory on web page that was devoted to health information
Covid.com used to give information about managing the disease. The White House is using it to trumpet the much-disputed Covid lab leak theory.
A government website long used to provide the latest guidelines on managing Covid-19, as well as information on how to receive tests, vaccines and treatments has now been replaced with a page proclaiming the virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China and that Anthony Fauci, the Biden Administration and others worked to cover it up.
The website, Covid.gov, now opens to a banner reading “LAB LEAK, The True Origins of Covid-19”, with a picture of President Trump striding between the words “lab” and “leak.”
It goes on, after listing several claims on Covid’s origins and citing President Biden’s pardon of Fauci, to walk through a series of other right-wing concerns over the pandemic, around social distancing, mask mandates, lockdowns, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes, and White House and social media company efforts to push against “alternative treatments.”
