Investigating COVID-19 Origins: Muddy Waters with Dr. Robert Kadlec

June 2023

Past Event

Investigating COVID-19 Origins: Muddy Waters with Dr. Robert Kadlec

Past Event

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June 01, 2023

Medical workers conduct nucleic acid tests in a mobile hatch like nucleic acid testing laboratory in Bijie, China, on September 15, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

June 2023

Past Event

Speakers:

Dr. Robert Kadlec

Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Preparedness and Response

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The preponderance of circumstantial evidence supports the hypothesis that an unintentional research-related incident initiated the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party refuses to release any of the data required to verify the alternate, zoonotic hypothesis. In April, the Republicans on the Senate HELP (Health, Environment, and Pensions) Committee released Muddy Waters, a report on the origins of COVID-19. The report, principally authored by Dr. Robert Kadlec and Dr. Robert Foster, examines the nexus of COVID-19 in unprecedented detail and looks systematically at China’s responsibility for the COVID-19 coverup.

Please join Hudson Senior Fellow David Asher for a conversation with Dr. Kadlec on the report’s findings.

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Join Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA), who recently visited Japan and Korea, and Distinguished Fellow Mike Gallagher for a fireside discussion on United States–China relations, the role of allies and partners in America’s Indo-Pacific strategy, and how the US can harness technology, industrial capacity, and allied strength to prevail in the defining strategic competition of our time.