The Wall Street Journal first reported on the intelligence surrounding the earlier hospitalisations.
Importantly, the intelligence community still does not know what the researchers were actually sick with, the people briefed said, and continues to have low confidence in its assessments of the virus precise origins beyond the fact that it came from China. At the end of the day, there is still nothing definitive, one of the people who has seen the intelligence said.
Photographers reflect on tragedies and triumphs of the pandemic
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers during the Worldwide Threats Hearing last month that the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially, an assessment that has not changed, said two of the people briefed on the intelligence.
New information on Wuhan researchers’ illness furthers debate on pandemic origins
A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence.
A State Department fact sheet released by the Trump administration in January said that the researchers had gotten sick in autumn 2019 but did not go as far as to say they had been hospitalized. China reported to the World Health Organization that the first patient with Covid-like symptoms was recorded in Wuhan on December 8, 2019.
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The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 23.7 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 7.7 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 14,144
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 189
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 85.4 doses per 100 people.
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases were little changed and deaths improved Not convinced COVID-19 developed naturally, need more open investigations: Dr Anthony Fauci
New information on Wuhan researchers illness furthers the debate on pandemic origins
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the left wanted to deny the theory that coronavirus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
EXCLUSIVE: House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee James Comer are demanding House Democrats launch a full and complete investigation of China’s alleged role in the origins of COVID-19.
House Republicans say they have been calling on Democrats on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the Committee on Oversight and Reform to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its role in causing the global COVID-19 pandemic since last year.