‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Vindicated as Government Agency Declares Lab Leak Single Most Likely Origin of COVID: Report

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The Department of Energy believes that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.

The report in the Wall Street Journal cited a classified intelligence report given to members of Congress and the White House.

The Journal report noted that different agencies have reached different conclusions, with the Energy Department and the FBI coming down on the side of the lab leak theory, while other agencies remain undecided or lean toward believing there was some type of natural transmission not yet discovered.

COVID-19 first erupted in China during or about November 2019 before leaping worldwide early the next year. Initially, China claimed the source of the virus was a market selling exotic animals in Wuhan. Contrary opinions arose that the virus emerged from a research lab in Wuhan. During the debate over the origin of the virus, advocates of the lab leak theory were initially derided as “conspiracy theorists” until over time evidence emerged that gave credence to their view.

The debate still rages. Last week, Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, acting director of the National Institutes of Health, said equating the viruses being studied at Wuhan with the one that caused the pandemic was like “saying that a human is equivalent to a cow,” according to The New York Times.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, a Republican representative from Kentucky, has pledged that the GOP-controlled House will fully investigate the origins of COVID-19.

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