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What Role Did UNC play with COVID?

North Carolina taxpayers and families deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the COVID disaster.

Don Brown | May 14, 2026

The recent indictment of former senior NIAID official David Morens has ripped the lid off the COVID-era corruption machine. Now, against the backdrop of the United States Senate investigation on COVID origins, North Carolina taxpayers and families also deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the entire disaster.

Ralph Baric, a world-renowned virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by all accounts collaborated for years with Shi Zhengli at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans. NIH grants under Anthony Fauci helped fund that work -- including controversial gain-of-function experiments that many experts now believe helped create the conditions for the pandemic.

As a state-supported institution -- with Chapel Hill as North Carolina’s flagship campus -- UNC owes its citizens full transparency. There are reports of public information requests being either ignored or stonewalled. Who was paid what, and why? Where did the money flow in from, and where did it flow out?........

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