"COVID COVER UP" Animation - Primary Sources

Here are the primary sources for my “Covid Cover-Up” animation:

"Covid Origins," an Animated Adventure

Feb 1, 2020, email from Anthony Fauci to Jeremy Farrar. "I just got off the phone with Kristian Anderson and he related to me his concern about the Furine site mutation in the spike protein of the currently circulating 2019-nCoV..."

Kristian Andersen on the laboratory-accident hypothesis for the origin of COVID-19, 02/02/2020 (i.e., *after* writing the first draft of "Proximal Origins"): "The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely–it's not some fringe theory."

February 1, 2020, email transcribed and published by the House Oversight Committee:

Jeremy Farrar, organizer and uncredited contributor to “Proximal Origin”, wrote in his book that Andersen found a scientific paper that “looked like a how-to manual for building the Wuhan coronavirus in a laboratory…Fuck, this is bad,’ was Eddie’s first reaction to Kristian’s observations. His second instinct was to call me on the burner phone."

February 1, 2020, Eddie Holmes and the rest discussed how elements of the virus look “exactly what was expected by engineering".

February 2, 2020, Rambaut discussed omitting the likely possibility of a lab leak to avoid a political “shit show”. Andersen said, “I totally agree.”

February 6, 2020, Rambaut: “I am quite convinced it has been put there by evolution (whether natural selection or artificial).”

Feb 2, 2020, NIH Director Collins emails Fauci and others, warning that a free and open debate about covid origins may do “great potential harm to science and the international harmony”. GOP Oversight Committee published the previously redacted text.

Likewise, GOP Oversight Committee published redacted email text of NIH-funded gain of function researcher, Ron Fouchier saying the same: a debate about covid origins would “harm science”.

Eddie Holmes tells the story of how he exclaimed “Oh my god,” thinking it wasn’t just 60/40 likelihood of lab leak/natural but 80/20. "I thought it might have been 80/20 at some point but that phase lasted like 3 days, and then very quickly I changed my mind, bc of the data."

Holmes explains his questionable evolution: "My colleagues at the University of Hong Kong emailed me and said I've got this sequence of a pangolin, it's kind of close...suddenly the pangolin, the same sequence, more or less is there...there it is in nature...that must be natural.”