There are plenty of unanswered questions about the outbreak's potential origins. Increasingly, however, arguments in favor of a lab leak are made by invoking unproven conclusions by intelligence agencies that do not show their work.
Whatever changed the DOE's mind did not sway other IC agencies, all of which reportedly had access to the DOE's new information as well.the Intelligence Community's interest in a lab-leak scenario as a symptom of a lack of scientific progress among scientists seeking to prove the case for a natural origin:
Since the start of the pandemic, the amount of publicly available scientific evidence supporting a specific and defined hypothesis for a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 has only increased. Specifically, That study, on an even more precise scale, demonstrated that animals capable of being infected by SARS-CoV-2 were being sold at this market in late 2019. Further, the study demonstrated that environmental samples from the market taken after it was shut down were"spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals." While no evidence was collected demonstrating the presence of any SARS-CoV-2 infected animal, this spatial relationship is suggestive of an animal source.
Another theory held that the WIV's past sampling of a virus genetically similar to SARS-CoV-2 supported a lab origin because it could have been used as a"backbone" for engineering experiments. Further research has found other viruses more genetically similar to SARS-CoV-2 in its functional parts, and that the evolutionary distance between the sampled virus and SARS-CoV-2 is too great for the former to have produced the later.
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