Opinion | China Doesn’t Want to ‘Live With’ Covid. But It May Have To.

The benefits of the zero-infections policy have dropped in relation to the costs of implementation, and there are signs it is becoming counterproductive.

Intelligence Review Yields No Firm Conclusion on Origins of Coronavirus

Declassified portions of a report presented to President Biden revealed divisions among federal agencies over whether the virus came from a lab leak or emerged more naturally.

Chinese Citizen Who Documented Wuhan Outbreak Falls Ill in Prison Hunger Strike

Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years for videos about failures in handling the virus. She now weighs less than 90 pounds, her former lawyer says.

The ‘window is rapidly closing’ to gather crucial evidence on the virus’s origins, scientists say.

Further delays could make it impossible to recover crucial evidence about the beginning of the pandemic, say experts studying the origins of the coronavirus for the World Health Organization.

The ‘window is rapidly closing’ to gather crucial evidence on the virus’s origins, scientists say.

Further delays could make it impossible to recover crucial evidence about the beginning of the pandemic, say experts studying the origins of the coronavirus for the World Health Organization.

Opinion | Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling.

Even if the coronavirus did not emerge from a lab, the groundwork for a potential disaster had been laid for years, and learning its lessons is essential to preventing others.

Behind One Pulitzer, Hundreds of Hands

When The New York Times was honored with the prestigious prize in the category of public service for its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, it reflected the contributions of the entire newsroom.

Opinion | Did the Coronavirus Come From a Lab?

18 months after the virus emerged, we still don’t know its origin story.

Opinion | U.F.O.s and the Search for Alien Life

Readers speculate about how extraterrestrial beings would view our world. Also: The Wuhan lab; the C.D.C. and mild infections.

U.S. experts press calls for China to allow deeper inquiries into the pandemic’s origins.

Suspicions have focused on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which long gathered bat viruses and whose laboratories conducted experiments on them.

U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins

Intelligence officials have told the White House that computer analysis may shed light on the mystery.

Biden Orders Intelligence Inquiry Into Origins of Virus

The directive came as health officials and scientists have renewed calls for a more rigorous examination.