With Biden's order for a fresh investigation into the pandemic’s origins, Facebook has opened the floodgates for new claims about the coronavirus.
Amid renewed debate over the origins of COVID-19 and the so-called Wuhan lab-leak theory that the disease may have originated in a Chinese laboratory, Presidenton Wednesday called on U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble their efforts” to uncover how the pandemic started, including the possibility of a lab accident, and report back with something “that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” within 90 days.
The Biden administration had maintained the position that the World Health Organization should be in charge of efforts to uncover COVID’s origins, with thereiterated the president’s belief in “an independent investigation, one that’s run by the international community” as recently as Tuesday.
Biden’s announcement shows the lab-leak theory, once treated by the administration as outlandish, is now at least seen as a possibility until more evidence is gleaned.
The lab-leak scenario, and its coverage in the media, has been particularly fraught due the fact that former President
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