President Biden signs a bipartisan bill to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19.
, which passed both the House and Senate without dissent, directs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. It cites “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The law allows for redactions to protect sensitive sources and methods.
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly coronavirus. Experts say the true origin of the pandemic, which has killed more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. and millions more around the globe, may not be known for many years — if ever.
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