The 'lab-leak origin' of COVID-19: Fact or fiction?
In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated ...
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CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power
The CIA said Saturday that it now favors a Chinese laboratory leak as the mostly likely origin of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest development in the still-simmering debate over the virus and ...
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Column: A CIA ‘assessment’ revives the fact-free claim that COVID started in a Chinese lab
Not 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.
CIA assesses lab leak most plausible source of Covid-19, though with low confidence
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, ...
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China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came from lab leak, as CIA now indicates
The CIA said Saturday the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals. The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed last week as CIA director in the ...
Wuhan lab at centre of Covid lab-leak theory planning ‘ominous’ new bat experiments as experts issue chilling warnings
A CHINESE lab at the centre of the storm over the origins of Covid is planning “ominous” new bat experiments, scientists have ...
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After new CIA finding, China says ‘extremely unlikely’ COVID-19 came from a lab
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.
Exclusive: Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation
As bird flu spreads, and Team Trump begins dismantling America’s public health apparatus, a former FBI scientist and ...
The CIA now leans towards lab leak theory for COVID origins
The report was declassified and released on Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John ...
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CIA says lab leak most likely source of Covid outbreak
The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.
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CIA says lab leak favored as likely COVID origin
FILE - This photo shows a general view of the P4 laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on December 21, 2024, ahead of the fifth ...
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CIA: Lab leak cause of covid
Tom Cotton of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Saturday he was "pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the ...