15
June 2026
Past Event
The Code as Witness: COVID Origins, Scientific Accountability, and Preventing the Next Pandemic

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

The Code as Witness: COVID Origins, Scientific Accountability, and Preventing the Next Pandemic

Past Event
Hudson Institute
June 15, 2026
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A health worker passes a vial that was used in a COVID-19 test at the press center for the Twentieth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on October 14, 2022, in Beijing. (Getty Images)
15
June 2026
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
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John P. Walters

President and CEO

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Senator Roger Marshall

United States Senator, Kansas

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David Asher

Senior Fellow

In The Code as Witness, which was published on June 9, Dr. Steven Quay shows how the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 points directly to human engineering. He warns that irresponsible and unregulated gain-of-function research is accelerating, and that future pandemics may be far deadlier than COVID-19. The book also lays out policy recommendations that could prevent such outbreaks while still allowing important research to continue.

Join Hudson as David Asher sits down with Dr. Quay for a fireside chat. Asher will bring his national security, intelligence, and investigative experience to one of the most consequential questions of our time: how the pandemic began, what the genetic evidence shows, and how the United States can prevent the next biological catastrophe.

Senator Roger Marshall, who has been a leading voice for stronger oversight of high-risk biological research, will open the program by framing the stakes for Congress, national security, and public health.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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