At least 90,000 health care workers around the world have been infected with coronavirus, according to data from the International Council of Nurses.
Pompeo: US does not have certainty but says evidence is virus could have begun in Wuhan labUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters during a media briefing at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on May 6. Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US does not have certainty about the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, even as he insisted the virus could have begun in a Chinese lab – a conclusion that other senior US officials, the US intelligence community and spy agencies in allied countries have all said that is"We don’t have certainty. And there is significant evidence that this came from the laboratory. Those statements can both be true. I’ve made them both.
However, Pompeo asserted that the lack of certainty was not a contradiction from his past comments that there wasPompeo claimed there was “no separation” in the disparate answers from himself, top US military officials, Five Eyes officials, and the intelligence community. “We’re all trying to figure out the right answer. We’re all trying to get to clarity,” Pompeo said. “There are different levels of certainty assessed at different places. That’s highly appropriate. People stare at data sets and come to different levels of confidence. Every one of us stares at this and knows the reality. The reality of this came from Wuhan.
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