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Published on: 26/01/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
The CIA believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory. It points the finger at China, even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion. The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. In fact, intelligence officials say it may never be resolved. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman praises Ratcliffe for declassifying the assessment. China’s U.S. Embassy says the CIA report has no credibility. Scientists think the most likely hypothesis is that it circulated in bats.
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Translation for “low confidence”: here, we explore a scenario where we can’t rule out that it happened, but other options are more likely.
CIA will most likely not create a report like this on a natural outbreak because that is rather the field of CDC and WHO.