The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five years ago.
The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of the pandemic's origins.
The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the virus. Yet under new agency director John Ratcliffe, the CIA has changed its view, which is now in line with that of the Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Missouri is suing China for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic, Attorney General Andrew Bailey says.The bench trial began at 2 p.m. on Monday, January 27 at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau. It ended just before 3 p.
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The CIA investigated the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, and determined, with low confidence, the origin was likely a lab leak in China.
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Almost five years after the first positive case of COVID-19 in B.C., Chinese Canadians recall ridicule and racism over their early adoption of pandemic precautions like masks, protective eyewear and gloves.
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. “It is extremely unlikely the pandemic was caused by a lab leak,
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday. The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or originated in nature.
The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.