U.S. Spies See No Human Role in Making or Modifying Coronavirus
- Trump ordered probe into how the virus emerged from China
- Some Trump supporters claim virus may have come from Wuhan lab
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U.S. intelligence agencies don’t believe the Covid-19 coronavirus was created by humans or genetically modified in China, a controversial finding that comes as President Donald Trump increasingly tries to pin blame on Beijing for the global pandemic.
The intelligence community “concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the Covid-19 virus was not man made or genetically modified,” according to a statement from the DNI office on Thursday.