Chapter 38

Ibid.

Ibid.

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Jaime M. Yassif, PhD, Kevin P. O’Prey, PhD, and Christopher R. Isaac, MSc, “Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats: Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference,” Nuclear Threat Initiative, Nov. 2021, 27.

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Katherine Eban, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins,” Vanity Fair, Jun. 3, 2021.

Ibid.

Ibid.

“Thomas DiNanno,” US Department of State, accessed Oct. 11, 2023.

Kylie Atwood, “Pompeo-Led Effort to Hunt Down COVID Lab Theory Shut Down by Biden Administration over Concerns about Quality of Evidence,” CNN, May 26, 2021.

“Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19,” open letter, Mar. 4, 2021.

Jorge Casesmeiro Roger, “An Interview with Richard Ebright: The WHO Investigation Members Were ‘participants in disinformation’,” Independent Science News, Mar. 24, 2021.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Private Interview with Derek Harvey, Feb. 21, 2023.

Annie Linskey, Yasmeen, Shane Harris, and David Willman, “Biden Asks Intelligence Community to Redouble Efforts to Determine Definitive Origin of the Coronavirus,” Washington Post, May 26, 2021.

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Shane Harris, “Top Intelligence Officials Testify on China, Pandemic and Other Global Threats,” Washington Post, Apr. 14, 2021.

Ellen Nakashima, Yasmeen Abutaleb, and Joel Achenbach, “Biden Receives Inconclusive Intelligence Report on Covid Origins,” Washington Post, Aug. 24, 2021.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Private Interview with Jeffrey Sachs.

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Ibid., 00:56:19-00:56:47.

Sharri Markson, “WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Footage Proves Bats Were Kept in Wuhan Lab,” Sky News Australia, 00:09:57-00:10:12, Jun. 13, 2021.