The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was a manmade pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan,

Meanwhile, another study published by more than 20 scientists in Cell, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, said no epidemic has been caused by the escape of a novel virus, and there is no data to suggest the Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other lab was working on COVID-19.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has publicly feuded for years with former top infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the White House and President Donald Trump are pushing Cruz's view that the pandemic stemmed from a "lab leak" in Wuhan,