Researchers hospitalized at Wuhan lab in 2019: Report

Published May 24, 2021 2:53am ET



Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.

The report goes beyond a State Department fact sheet issued during the final days of former President Donald Trump’s administration, which said the staffers became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

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