Biden follows in Trump's footsteps and asks the CIA for a report on the origin of Covid: Laboratory or nature?

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered his country’s intelligence agencies to inform him in the next three months whether COVID-19 first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. The agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze the information that could bring us closer to a final conclusion, and report back to me within 90 days,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House. According to Biden, the agencies are currently divided on the two. Possible sources of the virus that swept the planet last year, killing more than 3.4 million people, a figure that experts say is certainly an underestimate. Biden’s order escalates the growing controversy over how it emerged. the virus for the first time: by contact with animals in a market in Wuhan, China, or by the release of the coronavirus from a high-security research laboratory in the same city. The answer has immense implications for both China, which says no be responsible for the pandemic, as for American politics, where the laboratory theory has been used by Republican opponents to attack Beijing. U.S. National Health Institutions (NIH) previously funded research on coronavirus in bats in Wuhan, but have denied supporting experiments that involve modifying a virus to make it more transmissible to humans. it was canceled last year by the administration of former President Donald Trump.The lab theory has been used by opposition Republicans to attack leading American scientists, including NIH’s Anthony Fauci, and Beijing, who flatly denies the claims, Biden reported that in March it requested a report on the origins of the virus. to find out “whether it arose from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.” “To this day, the American intelligence community has ‘focused around two likely scenarios’ but has not reached a conclusion Deputy White House Press Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden was informed by the intelligence community of his assessment about a month ago, but that information was classified up to Asked about the government’s position on whether the virus was deliberately designed to be a biological weapon, she said: “We haven’t ruled anything out yet.” Return of the laboratory theory Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian accused Washington on Wednesday of “spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation” with the laboratory theory. The idea is gaining more and more traction in the United States, where it was used. initially fueled by Trump and his aides and often dismissed by many as a topic of political conversation.Citing an American intelligence report, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that three people from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized with a seasonal illness in November 2019, a month before Beijing revealed a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia.The natural origin hypothesis holds that the virus arose in bats and then passed to humans, probably through an intermediate species. This theory was widely accepted at the beginning of the pandemic, but over time scientists have not found a virus in either bats or other animals that matches the genetic signature of SARS-CoV-2 This was not the case for SARS and MERS, previous coronaviruses that passed to humans and were traced to civets and civets. camels relatively quickly. The United States and other countries have called for a deeper investigation into the origins of the pandemic, after a report by an international team sent by the World Health Organization to China earlier this year was inconclusive. And the demands of scientists for more transparency are growing. “We must take seriously the hypotheses about both a natural and laboratory release, until that we have enough data, “wrote a group of researchers from leading US universities in a letter published by the journal Science in mid-May.