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Published on: 26/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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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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  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The wet market was a superspreader event either way. But the difference between natural origin and WIV accidental release (anything other than an accidental release has less than no evidence and is stupid to conjecture about IMO), is how the virus got to the market.

    We know animals in the market had the virus, we have samples based on stall location. But there isn’t enough evidence from animal tissue or blood samples to say more than that.

    That it condensed and spread from the market doesn’t really seem to be in question. There’s no way with current evidence to say much more. The world would need to locate the viral reservoir, or the world would need additional information from the WIV and CCDC that we won’t get.