The White House yesterday Friday unveiled a revised version of special page of its website on COVID-19, in which it states that the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes were the result of laboratory accident.

The page is now dominated by a photo of US President Donald Trump and criticisms of the way the previous administration of his predecessor Joe Biden handled the pandemic. Until recently, it was a page that contained information on testing and vaccines.

On the same page, which is also redirected if you type in covid.gov, the former architect of Washington’s pandemic response strategy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is targeted for defending the scenario in which COVID-19 had a natural origin.

Five arguments are listed, in particular that the first cases of the disease occurred in Wuhan, China, where a virology laboratory known for its research into coronaviruses is located.

The argument is supported by government agencies, from the FBI to the Department of Energy, with varying degrees of certainty.

The main US intelligence agency, the CIA, also ruled in January, albeit with a “low degree of certainty”, that a link to research is more likely than that of natural origin of the virus.

That hypothesis, according to China, is “completely unlikely.”

Now in a trade war with Washington, Beijing has accused the US of “politicising and instrumentalising the issue of investigations into the origin” of the pandemic.

The White House page also criticizes measures taken by the previous administration in its effort to deal with the pandemic, such as requiring citizens to wear protective masks, or social distancing.

He even criticizes it in a passage with the word “disinformation” in its headline for downplaying “alternative treatments” and for censoring through major social media sites the speech of “dissenters” on issues related to the pandemic.

Over a million people died in the US because of COVID-19 and millions more in the rest of the world.