Pandemic started with a lab leak

US Energy department, most liklyShow more

https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/chinese-lab-leak-likely-behind-covid-19-outbreak/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/26/covid-19-lab-leak-us-energy-department-concludes/

Oversees a network of 17 laboratories, research in advanced biology

Overseas biodefence labs

Oversees US nuclear weapons program

Based on new intelligence,

additional study of academic literature,

and consultation with experts outside government

The Covid-19 pandemic is most likely to have originated from a lab leak

Accidental leak

low confidence

(In 2021, FBI had moderate confidence in a lab leak)

Covid-19 was part of a Chinese biological weapons programme, unfounded

FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak most likely

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64806903

FBI Director Christopher Wray

The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident

China has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate

efforts to identify the source of the global pandemic.

Details of the agency's investigation were classified

(FBI has a team of experts focusing on the dangers of biological threats)

Review ordered by Mr Biden

Intelligence agencies do not agree

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-Summary-of-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf

We judge the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.

Most agencies, low confidence, SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered