The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee believes it is “more likely than not” that COVID-19 emanated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, most likely by accident, rather than emerging from an initial natural animal-to-human infection.

Rep. Michael McCaul, who led the GOP’s China Task Force and put out a lengthy report in September alleging a Chinese Communist Party coronavirus cover-up and detailing serious concerns about the Wuhan lab, pointed to the Chinese government lab as the likely source for the virus and also argued the Chinese government should be punished for exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic.