The federal government’s online hub for news and information on COVID-19, the disease that’s killed over a million Americans, now redirects to a new White House website that blames China for the pandemic.

“Lab leak,” reads the banner on the website, “the true origins of COVID-19.” President Donald Trump has long touted the theory that the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.

The president’s changing of the online resource comes amid Trump’s escalating trade war with China and ongoing criticism of his predecessors. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, is also blamed at the top of the page for not supporting the lab leak theory. 

Trump’s new COVID-19 website features five arguments supporting the lab. Among them was the explanation that Wuhan – the Chinese city where the virus first began spreading – is home to a prominent virology lab. 

The old website included information on vaccines, treatment and testing, according to archived versions. Among the resources was information on long COVID-19 and a link to order tests at home. It advised visitors on how soon to seek treatment and included guidance for people with medical conditions.

Trump’s new website also slams measures adopted by his predecessors, including social distancing, masking and lockdowns.

It also says former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running for New York City mayor, committed “medical malpractice” in his handling of the pandemic. And the website says the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 response was “an abject failure.”

Trump began a 12-month process of withdrawing the U.S. – by far the WHO’s largest financial backer – from the agency when he took office in January.

Fauci, Biden, Cuomo and WHO had no immediate comment.

The White House’s new website comes after a modest endorsement of the lab leak theory from the Central Intelligence Agency.

In January, an agency spokesperson said that the CIA has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature but said that it had “low confidence” in the assessment and that a natural origin for COVID-19 remains plausible.

China says it has taken steps to determine the virus’ origin and has accused Americans of politicizing the matter, especially because of efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the cause.

– Contributing by Reuters