White House touts Covid-19 'lab leak' theory on new website [View all]
Source: CNN
By Sarah Owermohle
Published 1:37 PM EDT, Fri April 18, 2025
The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was a manmade pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The page revives a long debate about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen investigations by federal agencies, global health organizations and congressional committees. The CIA in January issued a report concluding that a lab leak was likely, but with “low confidence” in that judgment, paralleling similar conclusions from the Energy and State departments.
The CIA had previously said it did not have enough information to make a determination about where the virus originated. The World Health Organization has said it remains open to all hypotheses, including that the virus spread from animals to people in a Wuhan market.
Yet the Trump administration’s new website takes the lab leak theory even further than most of those reports, stating that the virus “possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature” and “if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/white-house-covid-lab-leak-website/index.html
The only hypothesis which the current data supports is the hypothesis that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in nature and spread through a market in Wuhan. No one has any evidence that there was a lab leak. To claim that the virus originated through a lab leak is a dishonest statement which ignores the principle that any such claim must be based on evidence found in data, not in the biases present in some politically convenient conspiracy theory.
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