---
type: Person
title: Clare Thomas
description: Person appearing in 20 documents.
tags:
  - person
document_count: 20
first_seen: "2021-06-23T17:07:00"
last_seen: "2025-01-06T02:09:00"
aliases:
  - Clare Thomas
sources:
  - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" }
generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" }
status: stable
---

Appears in the COVID-19 subpoena corpus.

# Activity

- **Documents:** 20 (sent/authored 18, received 2)
- **Active:** 2021-06-23 to 2025-01-06

# Topics

* [Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md) - 20 documents
* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 8 documents
* [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 8 documents
* [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 6 documents
* [Natural origin / zoonotic spillover](/topics/natural-origin.md) - 4 documents
* [Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md) - 2 documents
* [Proximal Origin paper](/topics/proximal-origin.md) - 2 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2021-06-23** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), asserts): "We have been contacted by someone who claims that a thesis from the Wuhan Institute of Virology contains information that seemingly questions the relationship of RaTG13 to the sample originally named 4991." [^reading_room]
* **2021-06-23** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), asserts): "Thanks in advance and best wishes, Clare Clare Thomas Senior Editor Nature A Dissertation submitted to The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019 by Yu Ping at the Wuhan institute of Virology has recently surfaced online." [^reading_room]
* **2021-06-25** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), questions): "Dear Zhengli, I wonder whether you have had a chance to consider my email below?" [^reading_room]
* **2021-11-24** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "Thanks in advance for clarifying these details, which do seem pertinent to the methods described in our paper and therefore we do have to ask." [^reading_room]
* **2025-01-06** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), questions): "Dear Zhengli, I wonder whether you have had a chance to consider my email below?" [^reading_room]

# Sources

[^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md)