US lawmakers pressed to declare a Chinese lab leak the US government’s operating assumption for COVID-19’s origin on Tuesday (Apr 18), potentially further inflaming relations with Beiji
Former DNI John Ratcliffe said that the intelligence community did not admit that COVID-19 came from a lab in China because it did not want to side with former President Donald Trump.
Former Trump official David Feith testified that the hospitalization of scientists is some of the most "probative" evidence that COVID-19 leaked from WIV.
Two leaks from Chinese labs in fall 2019 are the most likely sources of the coronavirus pandemic, a Senate report concluded after an 18-month probe into how COVID-19 reached humans a thorny question that's stumped two administrations and fueled rancor between Washington and Beijing.