Senate GOP Covid origins probe finds no conclusive evidence of lab leak theory.
A Republican-led investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has found additional circumstantial evidence supporting the theory that the virus likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but did not find any "smoking gun" evidence to prove the theory. The report highlights evidence that Chinese government officials and relevant figures in the scientific community "possessed some level of awareness of an outbreak of infectious disease" well before that information was disclosed publicly on December 31, 2019. The report also notes that the Chinese government is standing in the way of efforts to identify the true origins of Covid-19.