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  • What We Know About the U.S. Intelligence Community's Split on COVID-19 Origins

    1 month ago - By Time

    News that the U.S. Department of Energy made a determination about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked new questions about the U.S. intelligence community's investigation of the global pandemic that has killed an estimated 6.85 million people.
    The Energy Department, which runs multiple national laboratories, concluded with a low level of confidence that COVID-19 most likely emerged as a result of a leak from a laboratory in China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources. The Journal reported that the Energy Department's new determination was classified...
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  • Did COVID Originally Leak From a Chinese Lab? Politics May Prevent Us Ever Knowing for Sure

    1 month ago - By Time

    China was quick to dispel reemergent COVID-19 “lab leak” theories following a Wall Street Journal report this weekend that the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded, with “low confidence,” that the virus behind the pandemic most likely originated in a Chinese laboratory.
    Mao Ning, spokesperson for China's foreign affairs ministry, told reporters Monday that “certain parties” should “stop smearing China” and that the “lab leak” theory has already been authoritatively disproven. “The origins-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 is about science and should not be politicized,” said Mao. (The U.S...
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