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 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 ...
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, ...
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
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Column: A CIA ‘assessment’ revives the fact-free claim that COVID started in a Chinese labNot a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.
The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.
The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.
The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to ...
The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a ...
DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...
On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Under ...
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