That was the news this weekend after new CIA director John ... from its previous belief that Covid likely had natural causes. The Wuhan Institute of Virology origin was always the Occam’s ...

“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson ...

China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while ...

The origin of the virus is a crucial question ... Background information on COVID and the CIA was also taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Detroit.

The CIA “continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement about its new assessment.