Thunder Out Of China: The Lab-Leak Theory Strengthens
- Thunder Out Of China: The Lab-Leak Theory Strengthens
by Yuri Deigin, biotech entrepreneur and co-founder of DRASTIC, Inference-Review.com, via https://www.zerohedge.com/
On August 27, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a summary of the US Intelligence Community’s assessment on the origins of COVID-19.1 Four of the agencies involved and the National Intelligence Council assessed “with low confidence that the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection was most likely caused by natural exposure to an animal infected with it or a close progenitor virus.”2
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One of the agencies—later reported as the FBI3—assessed “with moderate confidence that the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
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“These analysts,” the summary continued, “give weight to the inherently risky nature of work on coronaviruses.”4
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have now been more than 360 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, resulting in over 5.6 million deaths worldwide.5
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Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are of more than academic interest.
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