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 ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

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, ...

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the ...

The CIA said Saturday that it now favors a Chinese laboratory leak as the mostly likely origin of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest development in the still-simmering debate over the virus and ...

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Under ...

“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson ...

The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a ...

DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...