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Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin

Politicised, polarised, and caught up in a chaos of cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories, it's one of the biggest questions of our time: where did Covid come from?

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8. An Answer
Speculation that newly declassified US intelligence will contain smoking-gun evidence.
29 mins18 Jul 2023
7. The Suspicion Business
Mysterious deaths in Soviet Russia and what they might tell us about the origin of Covid.
29 mins11 Jul 2023
6. Back to the Market
What really went on in that Wuhan market - and the curious case of the raccoon dog.
29 mins04 Jul 2023
5. Labs, Safety, and Risk
The lab leak theory goes mainstream. How safe are top-security laboratories?
29 mins27 Jun 2023
4. Mission: Impossible
A World Health Organization team heads to Wuhan. Will they find the truth?
28 mins20 Jun 2023
3. Uncertainty and Trump
US President Donald Trump wades into the Covid origins debate.
29 mins13 Jun 2023
2. A Question of Trust
A team of top scientists ask where Covid came from. But can they trust data from China?
28 mins06 Jun 2023
1. Batshit
As a deadly new virus starts spreading in Wuhan, China, so do rumours about a lab there.
30 mins30 May 2023
Welcome to Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin
Cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories: where did Covid come from?
2 mins23 May 2023