The U.S. intelligence community released a declassified version of its assessment on the origins of COVID-19.
The document, which includes a section titled “The Case for the Laboratory-Associated Incident Hypothesis,” offers insight into the one intelligence agency that assessed with “moderate confidence” that the virus, which has killed millions worldwide since it emerged in late 2019, most likely came from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan. The release of the 17-page report on Friday follows the release of a two-page summary in August that also said four other U.S. spy agencies and the National Intelligence Council believed with “low confidence” that COVID-19 most likely has a natural origin.
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