A compelling case for COVID’s lab leak origin

Published August 3, 2021 4:00am ET



In a matter of weeks, the intelligence community is scheduled to deliver a report to President Joe Biden that will “bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” about the true origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report issued by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s minority staff sets a high bar.

Texas Republican Michael McCaul’s staff makes a strong case that “the preponderance of the evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory sometime prior to September 12, 2019.”

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