Please note: This is the last Daily News Article post for the school year. 

1. a) What does former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believe to be true about the origin of the Covid-19 virus?
b) What does Pompeo accuse the Chinese government of doing?

2. What did the Wall Street Journal report on May 23 regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

3. Read the Jan. 15 findings released by the U.S. State Department: "Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
a) What do you conclude? Based on this Fact Sheet, is it possible that the Chinese government was working on a virus that was accidentally spread from the Wuhan lab? Explain your answer.

b) Until the Wall Street Journal released its report, the media labeled the idea that a leak from the Wuhan lab was the possible origin of the virus as “a conspiracy theory” that had been “debunked.” (Dr. Fauci also had said the evidence pointed to natural causes - that the virus most likely spread from a bat to a human.)
There are White House reporters (and State Department reporters) who would have seen this information. Why do you think the media chose to ignore the information?

4. a) What did the Chinese government do after the first case of the Wuhan virus was reported in the U.S. (on Jan. 20, 2020)?
b) What did Secretary Pompeo believe to be the reason for this reaction?

5. a) What did the WHO and Chinese officials claim in March that a study showed about the origin of the virus?
b) What did a group of top scientists publish in a letter on May 14 about the WHO’s claim about the virus origin?

6. Why is it imperative to learn where/how the virus originated?

7. Watch the videos under “Resources” below. Senator Rand Paul points out that studies on hundreds of animals show no evidence they carried the virus. What did he say about bats?

8. a) Do you think the media is doing a good job in informing the American public on Covid-19? Explain your answer. (Ask a parent the same question.)
b) Why should both Trump supporters and Biden supporters answer the same to a)?