US Intelligence Report Reveals Divisions on COVID-19 Origins and China's Virus Research.

A newly declassified US intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 sheds little light on how the pandemic began and is unlikely to settle the debate between the natural spillover and lab leak hypotheses. The report focuses on potential links between the pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including collaborations between researchers at the institute and the Chinese military. While acknowledging the research conducted at the lab, the report found no direct evidence that a specific research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel before the pandemic that could have caused the COVID pandemic. The report adds little to earlier assessments, which remain unchanged.