COVID Origin Investigation Is Complete And The Results Are Shocking

A 90-day investigation by the US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The intelligence community is divided by two theories concerning the origin of the virus, one being that the virus came from a lab leak, the other being that it transferred naturally from animal to human.

According to the summary released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, both theories are plausible.

“All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and laboratory-associated incident,” the intelligence community wrote.

The two-page unclassified report was released Friday after Biden asked intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to determine how the Covid-19 pandemic began.

“While this review has concluded, our efforts to understand the origins of this pandemic will not rest,” Biden said in a statement after the summary was released on Friday.”We will do everything we can to trace the roots of this outbreak that has caused so much pain and death around the world, so that we can take every necessary precaution to prevent it from happening again.”

Biden chastised China for not being more transparent in the investigation when the intelligence community said China’s cooperation would likely be needed to reach a more conclusive conclusion.

“Critical information about the origins of this pandemic exists in the People’s Republic of China, yet from the beginning, government officials in China have worked to prevent international investigators and members of the global public health community from accessing it,” Biden said.

Although the results were not conclusive, investigators were able to rule out some theories. It was concluded that COVID-19 was not developed as a biological weapon as some Republicans had suggested last year. The report said most agencies assessed with low confidence that it is unlikely that COVID-19 was genetically engineered.

Four intelligence community agencies and the National Intelligence Council assessed, with low confidence, that Covid was likely caused by natural exposure to an animal, according to the summary. One agency assessed with moderate confidence the first human infection was most likely the result of a lab-associated incident “probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute.”

Three agencies said they were unable to reach a conclusion without additional information.

According to a source briefed on the contents of the classified report, one of the agencies that did not take a position one way or the other was the CIA.

According to the intelligence report the virus probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure no later than November 2019.

According to the summary, the intelligence community would need additional information to reach “a more definitive explanation for the origin of Covid-19.”

“The IC–and the global scientific community — lacks clinical samples or a complete understanding of epidemiological data from the earliest Covid-19 cases,” according to the intelligence community.

“China’s cooperation would most likely be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of Covid-19,” the intelligence community said. “Beijing, however, continues to hinder the global investigation, resist sharing information and blames other countries, including the United States.”

Even though the report does cite China’s lack of cooperation with the investigation, it says Chinese officials “did not have foreknowledge of the virus before the initial outbreak.”

Earlier this month intelligence agencies were working through a mass of genetic data drawn from virus samples at the lab in Wuhan that some officials believe could have been the source of the outbreak.

Biden initiated the review into the origins of Covid-19 earlier this year after US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick in Nov 2019 and had to be hospitalized.

Last month, a group of bipartisan lawmakers said they want Biden to continue the investigation into the virus’ origins even after the 90-day review is completed.

A team of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the opportunity to find out the origins of the virus may be fading as people’s immune responses fade away and evidence in the bodies of animals vanishes.