The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.
But the intelligence agency cautioned it had "low confidence" in this determination.
A spokesperson said that a "research-related origin" of the pandemic "is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting".
The decision to release that assessment marks one of the first made by the CIA's new director John Ratcliffe, appointed by Donald Trump, who took over the agency on Thursday.
Crazy.
That was racist conspiracy until like five seconds ago
And people were getting censored for supporting the lab leak theory
Unfortunately, nowadays the only working way of finding the truth is to pursuit the censorship...
Until January 20 to be more accurate. You noticed the wording “more likely” and “low confidence”, or?
Still is, only it's just reached the White House.
"lab leak" is cover for "intentional release"
Still haven’t had the COVID yet . Anyone else here avoided it?
I caught it November 2023, the very first time I took my mask off at work for a coffee. I took extreme precautions for so long because I was on a immunosuppressive treatment at the time, and I was worried about how my inmune system might react to the infection (I saw several people with a similar treatment die). It was like a long bad flu (almost five weeks) in my case. Fortunately I'm off the treatment now for a little over six months.
Wow that’s full on! Lucky you got through that one
You're lucky. Where did you hide?
I did nothing different my wife had it and one of our kids but I never caught it even being in the same house
Did you ever get tested? There are naturally resistant people to pathogens as well as others who develop asymptomatic infections. Not that it's very important anymore, now that most strains are much less virulent and resistant through either exposition or vaccination is very widespread, unless you have someone immunocompromised close to you, that is.
The couple times I tested I didn’t have it . I possibly got it and it wasn’t bad enough to test for maybe but not sure
Wow that's so interesting #fbgm
Hmmm, would the CIA ever lie to me? 🤔
The Chinese Communist Party is working on creating bioweapons against the west.
Xaxaxa sure thing
In The Spectator for 2021-11-20, Matt Ridley argues “The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006313912X
As they should, since there isn't any scientific evidence about it, and a lot about its zoonotic.
A couple of scientific research papers among many in the literature:
Your literature is out of date
Are you claiming the opposite with those quotes/references?
I'm showing three scientific papers, one of them a systematic review, out of the many there are, which find evidence of the opposite. There isn't any slight scientific evidence that support the claim that refers the BBC news.