A long-anticipated government report on the origins of Covid offered new details on the U.S. intelligence community’s findings but did not state definitively whether the source of the coronavirus was exposure to an infected animal or an event at a laboratory.
A long-anticipated government report on the origins of Covid offered new details on the U.S. intelligence community’s findings but did not state definitively whether the source of the coronavirus was exposure to an infected animal or an event at a laboratory.
rachel: last night the white house director of national intelligence finally released its declassified report on the origins of covid-19. will: but that report mainly details how agencies are divided about whether it started in a lab or in nature. it says variations in intelligence in the community, analytic views on the origins of covid-19 pandemic largely stem from differences in how agencies weigh intelligence reporting and scientific public kays and intelligence publications and scientific and intelligence gaps and they assess the natural and laboratory associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection. pete: here to help make sense of this ohio congressman chairman of the house select subcommittee on the covid pandemic. chairman, thank you for being here r. we still doing this run
correct. [laughter] pete: i m not surprised. good morning, everybody. it was friday night, so that means we needed to get some information released that they probably didn t want us to hear about, and i think it was about 7:15, 7:30 on a friday night was the declassified covid origins report that congress had mandated the biden administration ad that to release. where did this virus come from we all know where it came from, but what is the government saying about it? here s a portion of the report that was, well, it was underwhelming. variations of ic, meaning intelligence community, analytic views on the origins of the covid pan domic largely stem pandemic largely stem from differences in intelligence and scientific gaps. all agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection, so that s gobbledygook speak for different agencies assessed different things, so we re basically