News that the U.S. Department of Energy made a determination about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked new questions about the U.S. intelligence community’s investigation of the global pandemic that has killed an estimated 6.85 million people
reported that the Energy Department’s new determination was classified. Previously, the agency was undecided on the cause of the pandemic.
Based on what we do know from that report, the intelligence community remains divided on this issue. So far, two agencies believe the most likely cause of COVID-19 was a lab leak, at low and moderate confidence levels. Four agencies and the National Intelligence Council concluded with low confidence that COVID-19 emerged as a result of natural transmission from animals to humans, and two have yet to make a determination. The names of the agencies were not included in the report and U.S.
The Energy Department news comes ahead of a Tuesday House Oversight Committee roundtable titled “Preparing For the Future By Learning From the Past: Examining COVID Policy Decisions.” House Oversight Committee chair James Comer told reporters on Monday that he would try to get the Energy Department’s assessment declassified and share it with the public, according toHere’s what we know about the divisions in the U.S. intelligence community over what caused COVID-19.
The 2021 report summary revealed that one agency determined with moderate confidence that the virus found its way into the human population after “a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” The document did not name the agency.The National Intelligence Council and four agencies of the U.S.
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