Bill Maher on COVID Bioweapon: Unclear

The claim: COVID-19 was deliberately engineered or made as a bioweapon.

2023-03-04: “It's a lab in Wuhan where the virus started that studied the virus and was doing gain-of-function research on the virus. How could it not be?” source
2023-03-04: “So everybody else has to take his bait like that and double down on stupid?” source
2025-03-28: “The New York Times said any questioning of this being from a lab was racist, which always struck me as odd because it seems much more racist to go, "Wow, these people are eating bats."” source
2026-01-24: “Gain of function research is still going on in labs.” source
2026-01-26: “And now everyone, including the Biden administration, admits there's at least a 50-50 chance that the virus could have begun in the lab in Wuhan that was doing gain-of-function research on that virus. Duh.” source