Who believes COVID was a bioweapon?

The claim: COVID-19 was deliberately engineered or made as a bioweapon. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that the virus was intentionally created or modified, or released as a weapon. Counts as saying it's false: Says the virus has a natural origin, or that it was not engineered.

Says it's true (11)

Dan Bongino: “we addressed part one appears man-made answer i think yes did they know i think hell yes” (2021-06-08, source)
Jimmy Dore: “Emails reveal Fauci knew Covid virus was engineered in a lab, he knew cuz HE FUNDED the research that created the Virus.” (2023-02-27, source)
Joe Rogan: “we've got into this mess in the first place because and this has now been confirmed that they were working on these viruses in this laboratory and it got released. And that these viruses had been created through gain of function research.” (2024-12-16, source)
Elon Musk: “Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?” (2025-02-02, source)
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Why is there any need to create a virus that can spread rapidly through a population, make people sick and kill them? That's a bioweapon.” (2021-06-09, source)
Michael Flynn: “the creation of a bioweapon purposely done” (2022-01-21, source)
Alex Jones: “a race-specific bioweapon” (2020-02-07, source)
Ian Carroll: “They made a bio weapon- it was released” (2025-02-19, source)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There is overwhelming evidence that Covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.” (2023-12-28, source)
Laura Loomer: “China unleashed a bioweapon in 2020” (2026-09-23, source)
Candace Owens: “Lol the story was always so ridiculous and the lie was so big. Somebody eating bat soup and causing an international pandemic was the conspiracy theory. Funding a bio-weapon and making trillions off the vaccine? That always made more logical sense.” (2021-06-07, source)

Hints it's true (6)

Russell Brand: “you were called a conspiracy theorist and potentially banned for social media simply for asking if coronavirus emerged from a wuhan lab well now the who is finally asking the same question” (2022-06-19, source)
Donald Trump Jr.: “Um… I’ll take a shot. COVID was weaponized to put in a dementia riddled idiot as POTUS...” (2022-02-09, source)
Jack Posobiec: “The Chinese Communist Party's bioweapon had to be the cover for the stolen election.” (2026-08-12, source)
Nick Fuentes: “Although I was initially skeptical, it seems increasingly probable to me that the novel coronavirus is actually a leaked bioweapon. Scientists still haven’t discovered the source of the virus from the apparent wet market because it really came from a laboratory!” (2020-02-02, source)
Theo Von: “Lied in front of Congress, was responsible for gain of function research that led to who knows how many [ __ ] people dying of a man-made disease.” (2026-04-02, source)
Tucker Carlson: “one of the very first things we knew about COVID was that it was an engineered virus that escaped somehow, intentionally or not, from a Chinese military biolab in Wuhan.” (2023-02-27, source)

Unclear (9)

Piers Morgan: “The official theory of how COVID-19 started, leaping from a bat to a human in a live animal wet market in Wuhan, always seemed a bizarre and convenient – for China – coincidence” (2021-06-03, source)
Jon Stewart: “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic…which was more than likely caused by science,” (2023-03-10, source)
Bill Maher: “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.” (2026-01-26, source)
Anderson Cooper: “breaking news on the administration's assessment of whether COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.” (2021-07-15, source)
Ben Shapiro: “We were banned from social media for talking about the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak. We were chastised by the fact-checkers. We were ripped up and down by advocates for The Science™. And it turns out it was probably true, of course.” (2023-02-27, source)
Adam Kinzinger: “Live With The Consequences Of What They Have Started” (2020-04-16, source)
Andrew Tate: “Dont give a fuck about this new Covid bullshit virus attempt. And no amount of propaganda can make me. Psyop.” (2026-05-07, source)
Mick West: “The Daily Mail is a nationalist tabloid, it's not a reliable source.” (2020-04-13, source)
Rachel Maddow: “It appears to be an attempt to distract from the chief failure of the Trump administration — its uneven and chaotic response to the outbreak once it began spreading within the United States” (2021-06-06, source)

Hints it's false (5)

Stephen Colbert: “It could be possible that they have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus diseases because in Wuhan there are a lot of coronavirus diseases because of the bat population there.” (2021-06-14, source)
Donald Trump: “common sense tells you it most likely – and when I say most likely, like 95 per cent – came from the Wuhan lab” (2021-09-21, source)
Mehdi Hasan: “The simple reason why so many people weren’t keen to discuss the ‘lab leak’ *theory* is because it was originally conflated by the right with ‘Chinese bio weapon’ conspiracies and continues to be conflated by the right with anti-Fauci conspiracies.” (2023-02-26, source)
Liz Cheney: “Even if you assume, as all evidence seems to point to, that this was not intentional, the Chinese have known for decades that the wet markets created this kind of threat.” (2020-04-09, source)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “"Tell me you’ve never read the Bible without telling me you’ve never read the Bible,"” (2021-06-15, source)

Says it's false (2)

Michael Shermer: “bioweapon is not quite as crazy but but we now know from the genetic analysis that it was not engineered it's a bat virus” (2020-07-06, source)
John Oliver: “numerous sites and groups online have been falsely claiming that this virus is a result of some sort of biological warfare some sort of bioweapon or even created by the pharmaceutical industry to try to sell more vaccines” (2020-07-20, source)

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