CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
"The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman ...
The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.
The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday ...
Covering up the lab leak was a "noble lie" told by the media to disempower President Donald Trump and save the public from ...
The announcement follows the arrival of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the agency.
Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.” China has denied the lab leak theory. The Post has contacted the CIA for comment.
The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, ...
Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...
China said on Monday it was “extremely unlikely” Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab ...
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