Senate Report Concludes COVID Likely Caused by Lab Leak

The latest government-led judgment in recent months to reach the same conclusion was that a test leak in Wuhan, China, was the probable cause of the pandemic.

“The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research,” said the report, which was the result of an investigation led by former senator Richard Burr.

The statement, a copy of which was obtained by Axios, uses the personality of the disease in its early phases and Wuhan’s’s biosafety concerns as signals that it may have originated in the lab. The lab leak is stronger, it determined after examining the many widely cited potential source of pet transfer.

The release of the report comes weeks after federal agencies also endorsed the lab leak theory. The Energy Department in February admitted that the pandemic likely emerged from a lab. The same month, the FBI said it has long known the lab leak theory was “most likely.”

The lab origin was a known possibility since the beginning of the pandemic, but officials sought to suppress it. Former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who recently said he still thinks adults should get COVID boosters “at least once a year,” commissioned a report in February 2020 to dismiss the lab leak theory. Two months later, he cited the report during a White House press conference and pretended to not know the authors. 

The Wuhan test received funding from the National Institute of Healths, solely for the potentially dangerous benefit of function research that could have been the pandemic virus’s’s origin.