U.S. intelligence agencies remain 'divided on the most likely origins of COVID-19,' after Pres. Biden's 90-day push for his intel community to 'redouble their efforts' to find a more definitive conclusion regarding the source of the virus.
A team assembled by the World Health Organization recently visited Wuhan to research where COVID-19 came from, but it could be years before there are clear answers about how the outbreak started.U.S. intelligence agencies remain"divided on the most likely origins of COVID-19," after President Joe Biden's 90-day push for his intel community to"redouble their efforts" to find a more definitive conclusion regarding the source of the virus.
Barring new information, said the report, a more definitive explanation will not be possible without Beijing's cooperation."While this review has concluded, our efforts to understand the origins of this pandemic will not rest," Biden said."We will do everything we can to trace the roots of this outbreak that has caused so much pain and death around the world, so that we can take every necessary precaution to prevent it from happening again.
Consensus among top officials in the Biden administration has been that the pandemic originated in one of two ways: The virus emerged from human contact with an infected animal, or from a laboratory accident." and limited access to raw data, discussion of the science has played out in a haze of circumstantial evidence.
But there have been no definitive conclusions as to where COVID-19 came from. The joint WHO-led team presented a range of options in their March report, calling a lab leak"extremely unlikely," but offering pathways for further investigation. Team members have voiced frustration with the lack of cooperation from the Chinese government -- echoed inSince then, the WHO has become increasingly receptive to the possibility that the virus resulted from a lab leak.
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