The US Department of Energy has joined other federal agencies such as the FBI in his conclusion that Covid “most likely” originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratoryas published today by The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper, which cites “a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of the (US) Congress,” notes that four other US departments continue to believe that the coronavirus outbreak was probably the result of natural transmission, while two others remain undecided.
The New York newspaper points out that the conclusion of the Department of Energy is the result of reading new intelligence data and it considers this finding significant because this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories, some of which carry out advanced biological research.
The FBI already targeted a lab leak
In 2021 it was the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that concluded that the pandemic was the result of a leak in a laboratory with “moderate confidence” and still holds this stance.
Depending on the quality of the information and its provenance, the US intelligence services usually assign three levels of confidence to their conclusions: high, moderate and low. In this case, the Department of Energy has classified this information as “low confidence.”
No definitive answer yet
In an interview on CNN, the White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, limited himself to highlighting that US intelligence has not yet reached a definitive answer on the origin of the Covid-19 And while some agencies believe the virus originated in a laboratory, others say they don’t have enough information to make a conclusion.
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The president of United States, Joe Bidenasked at the beginning of his term, in May 2021, the intelligence community to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
