FBI Director Christopher Wray said the COVID-19 pandemic 'most likely' resulted from a potential lab leak in Wuhan, China, as the debate continues over the coronavirus' origins. Many scientists say COVID most likely originated naturally.
The Department of Energy, which was previously undecided on a cause, concluded in a "low confidence" assessment last week that COVID-19 most likely arose from a laboratory leak, per the WSJ.
The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told Fox News' Bret Baier.: Assessments like this underscore how contentious questions about the pandemic's origins are and the geopolitical stakes of raising them when U.S.-China relations are fraught.
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