A controversial report from the World Health Organization and China on COVID-19’s origins and its conclusions on the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis contradicts and ignores details laid out by State Department cables and a declassified fact sheet, putting it on a collision course with U.S. intelligence.

Officials from both the Trump and Biden administrations have said that the Chinese government worked to thwart investigations into the origins of the virus, which has killed 2.79 million people worldwide, and both administrations have cast doubt on the manner in which the joint WHO-China study was conducted in early 2021. The Chinese government denies the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab and has cast doubt on the idea that it originated in China.