Nicholas Wade publishes 'Origin of Covid — Following the Clues'

A veteran science journalist's long-form essay laid out the lab-escape case (furin cleavage site, BSL-2 work at WIV, EcoHealth funding) and critiqued the Lancet and Nature Medicine statements. Self-published and not peer-reviewed, it is repeatedly cited as a tipping-point text in the 2021 narrative shift, read by policymakers and columnists; critics argued it is advocacy that overstates circumstantial evidence and includes contested technical claims.