2 days ago · What do the lab leak theory’s critics say? Many scientists still favour a scenario that Covid, like other coronaviruses, emerged in animals and then passed to humans.

Jan 25, 2025 · The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory.

Jan 25, 2025 · The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday ...

5 days ago · The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years.

Jan 25, 2025 · A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.

Jun 3, 2024 · One alarming detail — leaked to The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by current and former U.S. government officials — is that scientists on Dr. Shi’s team fell ill with Covid-like symptoms ...

Mar 1, 2023 · It's a suspicion that the coronavirus may have escaped, accidentally or otherwise, from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the virus was first recorded. Its …

Jun 8, 2021 · Nature examines arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them.

Mar 17, 2023 · Scientists who have studied the genetics of the virus, and the patterns by which it spread, say the most likely cause is that the virus jumped from live mammals to humans — a phenomenon known as...