After months of research, it is reported that the intelligence community still knows nothing about the exact origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the Chinese state media once slandered the president. Joe Biden.
According to reports, Biden received a confidential report on the origin of COVID-19 from the intelligence community on Tuesday. Washington postIt is hoped that the report will provide a better understanding of the origin of COVID-19, but according to reports, the intelligence community is still unable to reach a consensus on whether the virus occurred naturally or originated in a laboratory.
China strongly denies that the pandemic may have started in a laboratory accident and blames those who have proposed theories about using the pandemic to advance the anti-China agenda. Before the report is released, Global Times, A state-run media condemned that the origin investigation was led by the intelligence community rather than by scientists.
“It is ridiculous enough to have an intelligence team to find the source of the virus. It is not surprising that Biden has no clear answer in the end. But if Biden seeks further investigation, it will reduce the credibility of his government and make it a laughing stock. “Yang Zhanqiu said.Virologists from Wuhan University told reporters Global Times.
In May, Biden ordered the intelligence community to redouble its efforts to bring the world “closer to a definitive conclusion” about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of the order, two elements of the intelligence community were leaning toward the assumption of the natural origin of COVID-19, and one leaning toward a laboratory accident.
After 90 days, Biden provided the intelligence community with updated estimates for the length of time, and it seems that little is known about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. National Intelligence Director Avril Haines (Avril Haines) said it could happen in June.
Although the intelligence community hopes to find “conclusive evidence,” Haynes told Yahoo! “This is very challenging.” Both hypotheses are on the table, and investigators can only say that one is more likely than the other. This is exactly what the international team of experts discovered in March.
A team of two dozen international and Chinese experts came to the same conclusion as the intelligence community after investigating China. Beijing uses this report as a disclaimer for its laboratory, because researchers believe that the hypothesis of laboratory leakage is the least possible of the four possible scenarios, but the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros, retained all options.
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Ghebreyesus, who praised China at the beginning of the pandemic, said in March that researchers had problems obtaining raw data and expected China to be more proactive in providing information in the future. Beijing denies that researchers are getting less than everything they need, and to a large extent rejects the possibility of future investigations.
On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin refuted the validity of the upcoming intelligence community report, calling it anti-science.
“The historical record of the US intelligence community is very poor. It is impossible to draft a report based on facts and truths. This report is just a piece of so-called evidence based on predetermined conclusions. The purpose is to transfer blame to others. It is not credible.” Wang said.
Throughout the pandemic, China tried to divert attention from Wuhan, where the first known case was discovered, to other parts of the world. Officials blamed European countries and proposed a theory that COVID-19 may have originated in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Although there is little evidence to support Fort Detrick’s theory, Chinese officials have repeatedly called for investigations into the laboratory.
Experts previously told Weekly newspaper We may never know the true origin of COVID-19 and global health professor Jon Andrus (Jon Andrus) George Washington The university said that retrospective analysis is like using “a scientific method with one hand tied behind the back.”
According to reports from the intelligence community, many questions remain unanswered. Washington post, Including how the virus may be transmitted from animals to humans, how it may escape from the laboratory, and when and where the pandemic begins.
Answering these questions depends to a large extent on China’s cooperation, and the United States and even the international community are unlikely to accept China’s cooperation. Given the closed nature of China, many people also question China’s ability to be honest, which makes it difficult for people to have confidence in what they were told at the beginning of the pandemic.
