A Senate investigation into the origins of COVID-19 has concluded that the virus most likely leaked out of a Chinese laboratory.
released by Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Thursday, found a lack of evidence supporting the theory that COVID-19 was passed from animals to humans, and named China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as the likely source of the virus.
“New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt or the presumption of accuracy.” President Biden told The Post earlier this year that he pressed Xi to be transparent about the virus’s origins during a virtual summit.procured several pieces of equipment leading up to the pandemic that suggests it had problems containing aerosolized viruses, such as an air incinerator and an air disinfection system, as well as evidence of shortages of other safety equipment.
The Senate HELP Committee Republicans cite “high-risk” coronavirus research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.The zoonotic origin theory is unlikely, the report concluded, because there is still no evidence of an animal being infected with the COVID-19 virus, or even a closely related virus, prior to the outbreak that began in 2019.
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