US Energy department and FBI agree on Lab leak
March 1, 2023
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as posted by the channelUS Energy department, pandemic is most likely to have originated from a lab leak
Oversees a network of 17 laboratories, research in advanced biology
Overseas biodefence labs
Oversees US nuclear weapons program
Based on new intelligence,
additional study of academic literature,
and consultation with experts outside government
The Covid-19 pandemic is most likely to have originated from a lab leak
Accidental leak
low confidence
(In 2021, FBI had moderate confidence in a lab leak)
Covid-19 was part of a Chinese biological weapons programme, unfounded
FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak most likely
FBI Director Christopher Wray
The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident
China has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate
efforts to identify the source of the global pandemic.
Details of the agency's investigation were classified
(FBI has a team of experts focusing on the dangers of biological threats)
March 7, 2020
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A group that has been involved in China at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which some saw as a conflict of interest
The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins.
We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
17th March, 2020, Patrick Vallance shuts down debate
UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory
Natural spillover event caused the pandemic,
was hugely instrumental in stifling debate into the origins of the virus.
By the time the paper was published,
all reference to biosecurity problems in Wuhan had been removed
April 18, 2020, President Trump
a lot of people are looking into the possibility of a lab leak, the theory seems to make sense
Dr. Anthony Fauci
the virus’ mutations are consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
4th June, 2020, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head, MI6
Seen a scientific report by a British-Norwegian team indicating that the virus was man-made
January 15, 2021
State Department fact sheet
Some researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
became sick in fall 2019, three researchers were hospitalized before the first coronavirus case was reported.
February 9, 2021 World Health Organization team
the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan extremely unlikely
February 9, 2021
Close relative of SARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Thailand, China and Laos
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