1/ I asked for the truth about how COVID-19 origins research crossed U.S. borders. Here's what I found: undeclared coronavirus materials moving between American and Chinese labs as far back as 2018 — years before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

2/ April 2018: WIV scientist Zhengli Shi asked University of Minnesota virologist Fang Li to have a student carry SARS-related antibodies back to China. Li flagged the risk himself, citing "the current tension between USA and China," and suggested someone else ship them.

3/ October 2018: A student in Li's lab coordinated shipping live PEDV — a swine coronavirus — to Ralph Baric, a preeminent coronavirus researcher, complete with a growth protocol attached.

4/ November 2018: CBP officers at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a courier carrying three vials concealed in a paper towel and wax film…all undeclared. He said they came from Yusen Zhou of China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences, intended for Fang Li.

5/ A joint DHS/FBI lab tested the vials. The results: partial immunoglobulin mRNA and partial PEDV spike protein material. Undeclared. Unpermitted. Moving across our border.

6/ June 2021: the same courier was caught again — this time outbound to China with 132 undeclared vials and a laptop issued by a U.S. research institution to someone else entirely, credentials included.

7/ I released these documents because the American people have a right to see the paper trail, not a summary of it.

8/ I'm not stopping until the full truth is out there. Read the full document set at my new website, The Reading Room: http://www.paul.senate.gov/readingroom?ref=0724…