The “lab leak” theory that covid-19 started with a lab accident in central China received a modest boost in the latest U.S. intelligence assessment due to new data and an A-list team of weapons-lab scientists.
outbreak, the officials said. Though initially undecided about covid-19’s origins, Energy officials concluded as part of
Still, the news that Energy had shifted its view reignited what was already an intense debate on social media and in Washington, where members of Congress are preparing for hearings — some as early as Tuesday — exploring the circumstances behind the outbreak. Among the nine intelligence entities involved in the assessment, only the FBI had previously concluded, with “moderate” confidence, that covid-19 started with a lab accident. The Energy Department was the only agency that changed its view, while the CIA and one other agency remained undecided, lacking enough compelling evidence to support one conclusion over the other, officials said.Even at low confidence, however, the Energy Department’s analysis carries weight.
Neither of the leading theories — a natural spillover or a lab leak — have been conclusively validated, in part because of China’s refusal to allow independent investigators access to environmental samples and other raw data from the earliest weeks of the outbreak.
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