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NBCDec 23, 2022
US Govt. Report Says COVID Likely Leaked From Lab
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The Facts
An updated classified report by the US Dept. of Energy (DOE) released to the White House and some members of Congress, has reportedly concluded with "low" confidence that COVID was most likely caused by a laboratory leak.
The DOE now joins the FBI in its assumption that the virus came from a coronavirus research lab in Wuhan, China. In its report in 2021, the FBI concluded with "moderate confidence" that it emerged this way no later than November 2019.
The Spin
Right narrative
This is why we should not just appeal to authority and blindly trust "the science." In the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, America's so-called experts were so obsessed with blaming everything on Trump that they were willing to ban any and all debate surrounding the origin of COVID. Finally, three years later, even the FBI and DOE have endorsed a theory they once labeled "misinformation" and "racist."
Left narrative
Though the GOP will jump on this story as a "gotcha" moment to win political points, there is still no new evidence showing where exactly COVID came from. With some intelligence agencies arguing the lab leak theory and others arguing an animal spillover from a "wet market," no conclusion has yet been drawn with any high level of confidence, and anyone claiming to know the answer is simply trying to rile up their echo chamber audience.
