The possibility that the pandemic started because of a laboratory accident has gained renewed interest after a Wall Street Journal report that said three workers at the Wuhan lab were hospitalized in November 2019 prior to the first reported cases of COVID-19. “If I am wrong, I hope the Chinese Communist Party will come forward and make a fool of me.” The investigation into the Wuhan lab began at the end of 2020.
“I am confident that we will find that the evidence that we have seen to date is consistent with a lab leak and I’m convinced that’s what we’ll see,” he said. Pompeo, now a Fox News contributor, told the network this week he believed the virus originated in a lab and that the China’s government was covering up.
The State Department confirmed to CNN that the inquiry had stopped but said it is continuing to work with other agencies on “COVID origins issues.” The report indicated those close with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wanted to see if COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The State Department launched the previously undisclosed inquiry last fall under President Donald Trump - but the effort was shut down this spring because of “concerns about the quality of its work,” CNN reported, citing three unnamed sources.Īllies of Mike Pompeo, Trump’s secretary of state, were looking into the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic may have started in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and not in nature, CNN reported.īut after the changeover in administrations, concerns were raised early in 2021 about draft findings of the probe shared with Biden’s team, CNN said. The Biden administration ended an inquiry into a possible connection between the origins of the novel coronavirus and a lab in Wuhan, a CNN report published Tuesday claims. NYC launches COVID/flu shot campaign for seniors, disabled to get boosted as fall approaches Why Vanna White will be missing from ‘Wheel of Fortune’ this season: report New COVID vaccines are on the way as ‘Eris’ variant rises Oregon’s decriminalization disaster, DeSantis’ debate game plan and other commentary
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