How Biden administration is avoiding pressure on China over COVID-19 origins

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The Biden administration is putting little public pressure on China to investigate the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan laboratory, despite growing interest in investigating the origins of the pandemic.

Several Biden administration officials have downplayed the need to push China directly for answers about work its scientists were performing at a virology lab near the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan.

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