COVID-19, China and virus

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...
The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...
"The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman ...
Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated ...
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human ...