A US government agency concludes that the new corona is 'most likely to have leaked from a Chinese laboratory'
The Wall Street Journal reported on February 26, 2023 that the United States Department of Energy determined that ``the new coronavirus is most likely to have leaked from a laboratory.''
A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid Pandemic, Energy Department Says - WSJ
Covid-19: US Energy Department assesses virus likely resulted from lab leak, furthering US intel divide | CNN Politics
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html
According to two people familiar with the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Energy has published a report in the United States that supports the 'laboratory leak theory' that the new coronavirus leaked from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. It has been submitted to the Information Committee of Congress. US government agencies evaluate the accuracy of information in three stages of ``low, medium, and high'', and the Department of Energy positions this view as ``low reliability''.
According to The Wall Street Journal, 'In addition to having considerable expertise, the Department of Energy oversees a network of US national laboratories, some of which are conducting advanced biological research. There is also, so this conclusion drawn from new information is important.'
The origin of the new coronavirus is roughly divided into two conflicting theories, the ``laboratory leak theory'' and the ``natural infection theory,'' and even experts have divided conclusions. In 2021, the FBI reported with 'medium confidence' that the virus likely spread in an accident from a Chinese laboratory, and the US government agency that adopted this theory was the Department of Energy. It became the second.
On the other hand, the National Intelligence Council and four agencies, which are responsible for medium- to long-term strategic analysis, have adopted the theory that the origin of the virus is a natural infection with 'low confidence', including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)2 The two agencies are pending judgment, according to officials who have seen classified documents from the Department of Energy. Officials also said that all government agencies agreed that the new coronavirus infection was not the product of China's biological weapons program, and that this point was reconfirmed in this report.
The DOE's Office of Intelligence is one of 18 government agencies under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, eight of which have so far conducted investigations into the origins of COVID-19.
A senior U.S. government official told reporters that he would not disclose new information on which the Department of Energy was based to change its decision, but said, 'Both the Department of Energy and the FBI said that the virus was an unintended leak from the laboratory. 'Most likely,' but each came to this conclusion for different reasons.' There was also no mention of whether an unclassified version of the report produced by the Department of Energy will be made public.
The ``Wuhan laboratory outflow theory'', which claims that the origin of the new coronavirus infection is artificial, was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but gradually the view that it cannot be completely denied. started to spread. In response to calls for a reinvestigation , the WHO has embarked on a reassessment of the origin of the new coronavirus infection, but the investigation stalled due to repeated refusal of the Chinese side's request for information, and the WHO has decided to reassess the origin of the pandemic. abandoning research plans for
It turns out that WHO abandoned the second phase of the new coronavirus origin investigation scheduled to be conducted in China-GIGAZINE
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