Assessing Claims That the CIA Supports the Lab-Leak Hypothesis for COVID
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
CIA Backs COVID Lab Leak Theory: What We Know
The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, ...
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CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely ... "The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team ...
After new CIA finding, China says ‘extremely unlikely’ COVID-19 came from a lab
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission. “It ...
CIA has 'low confidence' COVID-19 leaked from lab in China
The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five ...
Karoline Leavitt: Biden Admin Had The Chance To Tell The Truth About Covid Lab Leak, "For Some Reason They Chose Not To"
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took a victory lap for President Trump on the IA's recent assessment that ...
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CIA Now Backs Lab Leak Theory for COVID-19, but Confidence Remains Low
The CIA admits it has "low confidence" in its conclusion and says both a natural origin and a research-related incident are still possible. HealthDay News — After years of speculation, the CIA has ...
CIA believes Covid-19 likely caused by lab leak, NBC News reports
CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.” ...
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CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
The “CIA continues to assess that both ... Congressional Republicans have embraced the unproven lab leak theory, pointing to how the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, where a ...
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CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak
“I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins,” Cotton wrote on X. Over 1.2 ...
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CIA releases new analysis on COVID origins favoring lab leak theory
The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the ...
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China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came from lab leak, as CIA now indicates
The CIA said Saturday the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab ... made any determination on whether COVID had been unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals.