Since the Energy Department reportedly backed the lab leak theory as COVID-19’s origin, some characterized the news as the government’s official stance. But it’s premature to say there’s consensus.
Such statements overstate the Energy Department report’s significance, because not all government intelligence agencies agree with that conclusion. Despite numerous investigational efforts, the government has not collectively reached a singular position that supports one theory over the other.
The report was unspecific about what agencies believed what theory. It said four units within the intelligence community concluded"with low confidence" that the first COVID-19 infection was most likely caused by natural exposure to an infected animal, the report said. Meanwhile, a May 2020 classified report that has not been made public found it was"plausible" that the virus escaped from a lab but did not go as far as to say it’s the likeliest explanation,The Energy Department’s shift has not been recorded in a public document; what has become public is based on anonymously sourced discussions between officials who have seen the classified material and reporters, including theThe department’s assessment has been characterized as an update to the...
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