In an interim report, titled ‘An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic,’ the US Senate Republicans investigated the origin of the COVID virus and explained how it could have started from a laboratory leak.
"There is no dispositive evidence the pandemic began as a spillover of a natural virus in a market. All evidence is consistent with a laboratory-acquired infection," an expert witness testified.
connection to the wuhan and seafood market. so this is not entirely shocking. remember the w.h.o. sent a team to wuhan in early 2021, and they said something similar afterwards that this was the most likely scenario in terms of zoonotic jump. but that was mired in controversy because of the experts lack of access to raw chinese data and their inability to conduct any independent interviews on the ground which has given further rise to the wuhan lab leak theory. and that, of course, is something that even w.h.o. itself said needs further investigation. so as authoritative and convincing as this is to the authors, it is unlikely to stop the debate, given how much politics is riding on it as well. i think that s right. interesting, but i don t think it will stop the controversy. steven jiang, thank you very much. what kevin mccarthy told donald trump to do about his 2024 possible presidential announcement. john king will join us live. remnants of a centuries old