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To: Les H who wrote (45585)	4/18/2025 5:03:21 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 48901

The Trump administration has moved to take down COVID-19 signage from federal agencies and replace websites that had previously offered health information and access to tests and treatment for the virus, swapping them out with a page titled "Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19" published by the White House. For the past two years, the Department of Health and Human Services had run the COVID.gov and COVIDTests.gov websites to link to resources about the virus, like finding vaccines and ordering free tests offered during the winter. Those HHS websites have now been replaced, redirecting to the White House page, which cites information from the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic's report last year. Beyond the "lab leak" — which refers to the allegation that the virus that causes COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in China, as opposed to a spillover from wild animals into humans — the page lists other accusations made by the committee concerning former National Institutes of Health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, and former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. An assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency ordered by the Biden administration concluded in January "with low confidence" that a laboratory origin of the virus was more likely than a natural origin. Both a natural origin and a laboratory origin remained plausible, the CIA said at the time. That was different from an earlier assessment ordered by intelligence officials who had found no direct evidence that the virus had started in a lab. CBS