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FEATURE: Vaccine syringes are ready in L. A. Community Resource CenterCare and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans, where they presented members and the public with loose flu and COVID-19 vaccines on Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, California A new U. S. intelligence report on the U. S. The U. S. government rejects several issues raised by those who argue that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. Instead, he reiterates that U. S. spy agencies are not working to do so. U. S. officials remain divided over how the pandemic began. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — U. S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected several questions raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, reiterating that U. S. spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began.
The report was released at the request of Congress, which in March approved a bill giving U. S. intelligence agencies the right to do so. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has 90 days to declassify intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Intelligence officials under Biden’s direction have been forced through lawmakers to release more documents about the origins of COVID-19. But they have continually argued that China’s official obstruction of independent studies would likely have made how the pandemic began more unlikely.
The latest report is likely to anger Republicans who say management is wrongly withholding classified data and researchers who accuse the U. S. of misconduct. UU. de be available.
Investigators renewed it following the revelation earlier this year that the Energy Department’s intelligence branch had released a report advocating for an incident involving the lab.
But Friday’s report says the intelligence network went no further. In four agencies, the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and in two agencies, the Department of Energy and the FBI, the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and some other companies have not. made an evaluation.
Located in the city where the pandemic supposedly began, the lab has come under scrutiny for its past studies on bat coronaviruses and reported security lapses.
The Wuhan lab has created genetically modified viruses as part of its research. But the report says U. S. intelligence”However, he has no information to indicate that any WIV genetically engineered paint refers to SARS-CoV-2, a very similar progenitor or spine virus. “That’s similar enough to have been the pandemic. “
And reports from several lab researchers who had respiratory symptoms in the fall of 2019 are also inconclusive, according to the report, claiming that some of their symptoms were not consistent with COVID-19.
US intelligence, according to the report, “continues to assess that these data do not confirm or refute any of the hypotheses about the origin of the pandemic, since the researchers’ symptoms would possibly have been caused by a number of ailments and some of the symptoms were not consistent with COVID-19. “
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