Newly Declassified Biden-Era CIA Report Says COVID Lab Leak "Likely" – What Does That Mean?
A newly declassified report, released by the CIA on Saturday, is once again stoking the debate around the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. The report is not based on any new intelligence and was completed under the agency’s previous leadership at the request of the Biden administration.
CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak
Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.
China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came from lab leak, as CIA now indicates
China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.
The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
CIA says lab leak favored as likely COVID origin
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab. Here’s what to know about the declassified document released Saturday
Opinion
The CIA Wakes Up About Covid’s Origin
New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret.
Trump’s CIA Now Backs Controversial Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of the pandemic's origins.
CIA: COVID-19 likely originated at Wuhan lab
The COVID-19 virus "more likely" originated from a research lab in China, the CIA now says, though it has "low confidence" in its determination.
Opinion
WSJ Opinion: The CIA's Covid Origin Reversal
New CIA director John Ratcliffe says the most likely cause of the Covid 19 pandemic was a lab-related incident in Wuhan, a judgment the Biden administration kept secret.
Origin unknown: why the Covid China lab leak theory still matters
Several US agencies and some scientists have proposed the lab leak theory over the past few years. But other experts insist there are good reasons to think the devastating pathogen emerged from a market where animals are traded.
Declassified CIA analysis on COVID origins favors lab leak theory
Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released a statement in response to the newly declassified CIA analysis on the origins of COVID-19 favoring the lab leak theory. "For over four years now, the complete truth about COVID-19 and its origins has been hidden from the American people.
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Did Covid originate in Wuhan lab? Calls for probe into 'China virus' grow in US
It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up ...
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A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19 origin
LONDON--Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short ... suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered ...