Republican Report on Covid Origins Pushes Lab Leak Hypothesis
- Report comes from people no longer working in US government
- Congressional hearing on how Covid started to be held Tuesday
A Covid-19 sample during testing in Leuven, Belgium.
Photographer: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/BloombergAs US lawmakers continue to seek answers about how the Covid-19 pandemic first began, former Republican staffers are releasing details from their own investigations, putting pressure on the Biden administration to declassify sensitive intelligence.
President Joe Biden signed a law in late March that requires the declassification of intelligence on the origins of Covid, but that intelligence has yet to be made public. The push for greater transparency around US findings related to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, comes as scientists and security experts have released conflicting reports based on publicly-available information and the White House separately grapples with one of the most damaging intelligence leaks in a decade.