The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...

CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak. The intelligence agency has said for years it couldn’t say with certainty where the pandemic originated from.

The CIA "continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement about its new assessment.

The first known cases of COVID-19 in humans came in Wuhan in November 2019. Some 1.2 million Americans were died in the COVID-19 pandemic, per data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CIA says COVID ‘more likely’ came from Wuhan, China lab leak Published: Jan. 25, 2025, 8:41 p.m. Workers line up to get tested for COVID-19 at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan in central China's ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday.

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry this could be an indication of politicization.

CIA analysts now believe the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic more than likely began inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a position that health experts once dismissed as disinformation ...

A CIA report found that the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a lab in Wuhan, China, though the agency expressed “low confidence” in its own conclusion.. Various ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while ack… ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even ...