COVID was "more likely than not" the result of a "laboratory incident," a US Senate Committee has concluded.
Committee report said the theory the virus emerged naturally 'no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt' and a leak was more plausible
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"G.O.P. Senator’s Report on Covid Origins Suggests Lab Leak,
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But the findings published on Thursday, while interim,
bore only Mr. Burr’s signature. And in relying largely on existing public evidence, rather than new or classified information, the report came as something of a letdown even to those who supported its conclusions.
Several researchers who have studied the beginnings of the pandemic, though, described the Burr report as a step backward in the effort to understand that period.
“This was an embarrassingly bad use of taxpayer money and resources,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada,