The US intelligence community released a declassified report that confirmed that it has not reached a conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, though it offered fresh details on how it approached its 90-day investigation into the matter.
The US intelligence community released a declassified report on Friday that confirmed that it has not reached a conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, though it offered fresh details on how the intelligence community approached its 90-day investigation into the matter.
Still, the full report released Friday does give new insight into how the intelligence community viewed different puzzle pieces of publicly known evidence. For example in one high-profile instance, the intelligence community assessed that the fact that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick in the fall of 2019"is not diagnostic of the pandemic's origins," the report reads.
It also states that COVID-19 was likely not developed as a biological weapon, as some Republicans had suggested last year.The report reveals new details about the evidence on which analysts backing the so-called lab leak theory based their conclusions. The FBI referred CNN to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which declined to comment on the suggestion the FBI had"moderate confidence" in the lab leak theory.
But the report also notes that the intelligence community"has no indications" that the institute's research involved either the virus that causes COVID-19 or a close progenitor virus, and, ultimately, that the community will be unable to come to a more definitive conclusion one way or the other without new information.
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