“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 ...

Outgoing CIA Director William Burns had told analysts that instead of remaining neutral on the different theories about Covid’s origins, they should take a position — though he did not express ...

Zeynep Tufecki, a Times columnist and sociology professor at Princeton University, wrote in a recent opinion piece that the ...

A column published in The New York Times claimed the public was "badly misled" about the origins of COVID, even after its own ...

Broad Institute scientist Alina Chan sparked controversy by suggesting COVID originated in a Chinese lab. Five years later, the public—including the CIA—may finally believe her.

More and more evidence points to the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID-19, but answers are elusive, and a look at the issue without the filter of politics is rarer yet. The new Trump Administration has ...

The New York Times published a piece acknowledging that the lab leak theory was likely correct. Five years too late.

"CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible," the spokesperson noted. A US official told AFP the shift was based on a ...

The Trump administration recently declassified the CIA’s assessment of COVID origins — under the Biden administration — as being likely a lab origin, with low certainty. This has been ...

“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 ...