Updated: 1:43 PM EDT Jun 9, 2021 By CHRISTINA LARSON and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a new U.S. investigation.Experts say the 90-day review ordered on May 26 by President Joe Biden will push American intelligence agencies to collect more information and review what they already have. Former State Department officials under President Donald Trump have publicly pushed for further investigation into virus origins, as have scientists and the World Health Organization.Many scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, say they still believe the virus most likely occurred in nature and jumped from animals to humans. Virus researchers have not publicly identified any key new scientific evidence that might make the lab-leak hypothesis more likely.Virologists also say it is unlikely that any definitive ans
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Facebook was today accused of 'showing its true and ugly colours' and smothering free speech as it scrapped its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made - but only after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a.
Facebook was accused of smothering free speech when it only reversed its policy on Wednesday after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a Wuhan lab.
Joe Biden s team ended a State Department investigation into Wuhan lab
The investigation was begun by Mike Pompeo s allies in fall and ran until spring
One of those involved in probe said no evidence showed virus came from bats
David Asher was part of State Department arms control and verification bureau
He said his team found no evidence coronavirus came from animals
Biden s team in February or March decided to end their research
Critics of the effort said it was overtly political and designed to burnish Trump
Trump had long claimed that the Wuhan theory for COVID-19 was likely
Many scientists initially disregarded the theory but are now accepting it