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1 Report, 4 Theories: Scientists Mull Clues on Virus' Origin
A team of international and Chinese scientists is poised to report on its joint search for the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a pandemic after it was first detected in China over a year ago
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Calif. Law Professor Under Fire for Blog Post Blaming Pandemic on Chinese Government
A University of San Diego law professor is under fire for what even the school is calling disparaging and biased language used in a blog post about the suspected origin of the coronavirus, a conspiracy the Chinese government denies. Because the investigation into these remarks is just starting, NBC 7 is not naming the tenured professor or his blog page….
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EXPLAINER: What the WHO Coronavirus Experts Learned in Wuhan
A World Health Organization team is leaving China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide
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WHO Team: Coronavirus Unlikely to Have Leaked From China Lab
A team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 says the coronavirus most likely appeared in humans after jumping from an animal
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Chinese Whistleblower Doctor Honored on Death Anniversary
The message honoring the Chinese whistleblower doctor who died of the coronavirus a year ago was tucked into a bouquet of chrysanthemums left by a mourner at the back of Wuhan Central Hospital
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WHO Investigators Visit Research Center in Wuhan
Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.
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Wu-Tang Clan or Wuhan? T-Shirt Ignites New China-Canada Tiff
China has complained to Canada over T-shirts ordered an embassy worker that allegedly mocked China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent mix-up between the city of Wuhan and the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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WHO Team in Wuhan Visits Disease Control Centers
A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province where the outbreak emerged
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WHO Team Visits Wuhan Food Market in Search of Virus Clues
A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited the food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections
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WHO Team in Wuhan Departs Quarantine for COVID Origins Study
A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic
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WHO Team Arrives in Wuhan to Investigate Pandemic Origins
A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries
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China Clamps Down in Hidden Hunt for Coronavirus Origins
Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press show that top Chinese officials quietly ordered strict controls on all COVID-19 research in the country, cloaking the search for the origins of the virus in secrecy
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Racism Targets Asian Food, Business During COVID-19 Pandemic
Bigotry toward Asian Americans and Asian food has spread steadily alongside the coronavirus in the United States. Distorted information about the virus that first appeared in China has led to a revival of century-old tropes about Asian food being dirty.
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Life in Wuhan, 1 Year After First Virus Cases
It’s been a year since Wuhan, China, reported the world’s first cases of COVID-19, and life in the city is largely back to normal.
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Post-Pandemic Parties Underway in Wuhan, as Virus Fears Disappear
It’s a glimpse at what life on the other side of the pandemic could look like. Robert Kovacik reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.
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Inside the Wuhan Lab At the Center of the Mystery of Pandemic's Origins
NBC has an exclusive look inside the Wuhan lab working to track the origins of the virus.
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Wuhan Lab Head Calls Virus Leak Claims ‘Pure Fabrication'
The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology says claims promoted by the Trump administration that the global coronavirus pandemic originated at the Chinese laboratory are a “pure fabrication.”
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UN: US Hasn't Shared Evidence on Alleged Coronavirus Origin
The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the coronavirus could have originated at a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “From our perspective, this remains speculative,” Dr. Michael Ryan told reporters in...
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Trump Speculates That China Released Virus in Lab ‘Mistake'
What was the source of the coronavirus
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China Begins Second Phase of Coronavirus Vaccine Trial
China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences began the second phase of a clinical trial on Sunday for a coronavirus vaccine.