Last week, the White House unveiled a new COVID-19.gov website citing evidence that the virus’ “true origins” were most likely from a “lab leak” incident involving gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. The website is a wholesale replacement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 resources page which had promoted vaccination and testing. The single, long scrolling page criticizes pandemic response policies, admonishes the discrediting of the lab leak theory, and comprehensibly presents evidence that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

The website, titled “LAB LEAK” and “The True Origins of COVID-19,” credits the source of its information to the House Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The site first targets the narrative of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s former chief medical advisor, who pushed the notion the COVID-19 virus “originated naturally.” The site presents five evidence bullet points for the lab leak stating the virus contains “biological characteristics not found in nature,” and that data suggests it came to humans through a “single introduction point” unlike previous pandemics. The evidence then noted that Wuhan, the capital of Hubei and the eighth-most-populous city in China, is the site of the first known COVID-19 case.  It is also home to “China’s foremost SARS lab,” which “has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging)” and doing so at “inadequate biosafety levels.” Researchers from the Wuhan Institute were also reported sick with COVID-like symptoms in 2019, which was months before the virus was discovered at the city’s wet market.

“By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t” reads the website.

In early 2025, the Trump administration’s CIA concluded a lab leak was the “likely” origin of the virus, which had been long cast off by mass media and scientists as a “conspiracy.”  However, the New York Times and many other outlets have since reported the lab leak as credible and that the scientific community had been “badly misled.” 

On the site, the Trump administration also faulted the National Institutes of Health and EcoHealth Alliance for using taxpayer funding to conduct “dangerous” gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. Officials from both organizations are alleged to have evaded federal record keeping laws and obstructed investigations. The website stated the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.

The White House then criticized the World Health Organization’s pandemic response as “an abject failure” for caving under Chinese Communist Party pressure to put “China’s political interests ahead of its international duties.” As for the pandemic response in general, the site noted there was no conclusive evidence that the “six feet apart” social distancing rules, mask mandates, and lockdowns were effective, but rather caused “immeasurable harm” to the economy and to the mental and physical health of Americans. 

Under a section called “COVID-19 misinformation,” the site states public health officials have often misled Americans “through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency.”

“Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people's health decisions,” continued the White House.

When those efforts failed, the White House noted, the Biden administration “colluded” with the world’s social media companies to conduct “outright censorship” of “all COVID-19-related dissent.”

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “This website from the White House brings evidence-based information and transparency to the American people. The lab leak and the ensuing pandemic response inflicted devastating collateral damage on the nation. Common sense tells us that shot mandates, lockdowns, lack of transparency, and censorship had nothing to do with science or health. We must never allow what we experienced during COVID to happen again.”