Biden Asks Intel Agencies To Probe Origin Of COVID

The Associated Press reports:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the unlikely possibility that the origins of the virus trace to Chinese lab.

After months of minimizing the possibility as a fringe theory, the Biden administration is responding both to domestic and geopolitical concerns about putting pressure on China to be transparent about the outbreak.

Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have promoted the theory that the virus emerged from a laboratory accident, rather than naturally through human contact with an infected animal.

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“President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the unlikely possibility that the origins of the virus trace to Chinese lab.”https://t.co/ddN2Mo17N0

— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 26, 2021

Biden asks intelligence community to redouble efforts to determine definitive origin of the coronavirus https://t.co/ECtJa1oWUD

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 26, 2021