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Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a new U.S. investigation.
Once dismissed, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a new U.S. investigation.
June 9, 2021 Share WASHINGTON — Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a new U.S. investigation. Experts say the 90-day review ordered on May 26 by President Joe Biden will push American intelligence agencies to collect more information and review what they already have. Former State Department officials under President Donald Trump have publicly pushed for further investigation into virus origins, as have scientists and the World Health Organization. M...
Virologists also say it is unlikely that any definitive answer about virus origins will be possible in 90 days. The work to fully confirm origins and pathways of past viruses — such as the first SARS or HIV/AIDS — has taken years or decades. A look at what is known about the U.S. investigation of the virus. WHAT ARE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES REVIEWING? Biden ordered a review of what the White House said was an initial finding leading to “two likely scenarios,” an animal-to-human transmission or a lab leak. The White House statement says two agencies in the 18-member intelligence community...
Department of State were warned by their higher-ups not to investigate the theory that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was engineered in a lab in Wuhan and escaped because it would “open Pandora’s box.” “It smelled like a cover-up,” said Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC). DiNanno’s attempt to investigate the lab leak theory was thwarted at every turn by hostile and antagonistic federal government personnel. Vanity Fair. The other three individuals were David Asher, a former c...