Dr. Anthony Fauci – who has been considered one of the most trusted leaders tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States – once again stressed that, as far as the evidence suggests, the novel coronavirus is naturally occurring and was not made in a laboratory.

The top U.S. spy agency said for the first time that the American intelligence community believes the COVID-19 virus that originated in China was not manmade or genetically modified.

Less than a year after Sandoz, the generics arm of Novartis, vowed to fight allegations of being involved in a scheme to manipulate the price of generic drugs along with other drugmakers, the company changed course and agreed to pay a $195 million penalty to the U.S. government.

Two former executives of biotech company MiMedx Group Inc. were criminally charged with fraudulently inflating the company’s revenue.