The U.S. intelligence community has found no direct evidence of a 'biosafety incident' or of the pre-pandemic presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The U.S. intelligence community has found no direct evidence of a"biosafety incident" or of the pre-pandemic presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, according toThe newly declassified document added details to a growing body of inconclusive evidence about the origins of the pandemic.
While some lab researchers heightened their risk of accidental exposure to viruses at WIV through insufficient safety precautions, and"several" fell ill in the fall of 2019, the report found, U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on whether the pandemic began through natural transmission or by accident.
The report also says that several WIV researchers showed some symptoms"consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19" in the fall of 2019, with some showing symptoms unrelated to the disease, and some confirmed to have been sick with other, unrelated illnesses.
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