The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.  “It is extremely unlikely the pandemic was caused by a lab leak,

Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.