![]() But intelligence agencies split over the likeliest explanation for how it made the leap to humans, with the National Intelligence Council and four other agencies favoring a natural origin, one favoring a lab leak of some kind, and three undecided. ![]() ![]() Most agencies also agreed, though with “low confidence,” that the virus “probably was not genetically engineered,” though two agencies believed they did not have enough evidence to conclude that. That in itself is notable, given that, until recently, the lab-leak hypothesis had been largely dismissed as a conspiracy theory.Īccording to the “declassified key takeaways” issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the intelligence community broadly assessed that the COVID-19 virus likely first appeared in Wuhan no later than November 2019, emerged without the foreknowledge of Chinese authorities, and was not developed as a bioweapon. intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 drew no definitive conclusions but left open the possibility that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. ![]() ![]() According to a declassified summary released Friday afternoon, a new U.S. ![]()
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