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Independent research & views on the COVID Event | Jessica Hockett PhD

    Virus/COVID-19 Origins

    This page features articles related to the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. My approach to writing and thinking about Origins, and viruses in general, is very practical, focused on basic questions anyone can pose, and pays close attention to language and semantics.

    Opinions on the Use of ‘Bioweapon’ & Whether the U.S. Activated Counter-Measures in Response to SARS-CoV-2
    A second discussion with ex-CDC scientist Norman Pieniazek (Martin Neil, Jonathan Engler, Jessica Hockett)
    Can Bats Pass (Corona)viruses to Humans?
    The SARS-CoV-2 Name Game (Long Read)
    Thinking About Lab Leak…
    Re-Run: An October 1957 BBC Story About the Asian Flu Vaccine Has Some Familiar Elements
    The Most Basic Questions (about SARS-CoV-2)
    COVID-19 Did Not Come From a Lab
    Sunetra Gupta’s View on the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the ‘Threat’ Posed by Gain-of-Function Research
    Do the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 Matter?
    Conversation with Meryl Nass on Gain of Function Research
    The CIA’s 25 January 2025 Statement About the ‘Origins’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Follow Up: CIA Assessment of COVID-19 Pandemic Origins vs. New CIA Director John Ratcliffe
    Q: What did the CIA formally say about the origins of SARS-CoV-2? A: Nothing
    The Department of Defense 2019 World Military Games Report does not provide evidence of early spread of SARS-CoV-2 or incidence of COVID-19
    Matt Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
    The Unconvinced Alina Chan
    “Somehow, It Must Have Escaped”
    If It’s So Deadly, Then Why Wasn’t it Deadly?
    The new White House web page is basically another episode of a long-running Hyperreality TV Show that needs to be canceled ASAP
    COVID Origins Ping-Pong
    “DO YOU BELIEVE IN VIRUSES? YES or NO?”
    Views on the things called viruses (including SARS-CoV-2)
    Two Sides of the Same Spreading Novel Virus Story
    Yes, the origins of ‘the virus’ matter — and are inextricably linked to the origins of ‘the response’
    Did the Corman-Drosten Protocol “rely on social media reports” to seek (& then find) SARS-CoV-2?
    It’s time for all living authors of the Corman-Drosten Review Report to confront “social media science”
    Yes, Corman-Drosten et al designed a test based on a rumor
    Response to Matt Ridley and Lab Origin proponents: This covid narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny.
    Is there any possible way for SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 to have a “lab origin” – and origins distinct from one another?
    Does a SARS virus automatically trigger a WHO Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?
    The 1916 New York City Polio Virus “Lab Leak” Hypothesis
    Early emails between virologists who developed the first RT-PCR “test” for 2019-nCoV suggest low certainty about sequencing, novelty, and transmission
    Observations and comments about the 30 October 2025 document release involving Ralph Baric and the CIA
    Q & A with Dr. Alexander Gorbalenya, lead author on the paper that named and classified SARS-CoV-2
    The Earliest Seed?

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