* Once dismissed as fringe theory, growing number of scientists now say it is possible COVID-19 escaped from Chinese lab
* President Biden said he had told the intelligence community to redouble efforts to collect information that 'could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion'
* He said intelligence agencies currently had insufficient evidence to decide whether virus leaked from lab or emerged in the wild
* And he gave them 90 days to report back
* It follows report that staff at Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital treatment in November 2019 for COVID-like symptoms
President Biden has finally asked his intelligence agencies to step up their efforts to get to the truth about the origins of COVID-19 amid growing concern that it emerged from a Chinese laboratory.
A string of senior scientists have recently admitted they may have leapt to conclusions in assuming the virus jumped from an animal host in the wild to humans and are now looking into the theory it leaked from a Wuhan lab that have been dismissed for the last 12 months.
At the weekend fresh details emerged about how staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital treatment for COVID-like symptoms in November 2019.
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WNU Editor: I have doubts that the US intel community has the resources necessary to do a proper investigation on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, let alone producing a report in 90 days.
In the meantime the politics is getting intense .... Fauci admits he doesn't know whether Wuhan lab lied about what it used the $600K US-taxpayer research grant for in Senate showdown: Dr claims he was NOT consulted about Pompeo-led effort to prove COVID originated from lab (Daily Mail). More here .... 'It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out the likelihood of Wuhan lab leak': Lindsey Graham leads Republicans fury over origin of COVID 'cover-up' as Tom Cotton demands Fauci 'come clean' and Rand Paul says the doctor has committed PERJURY (Daily Mail).
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Biden says he's asked intelligence community to "redouble" efforts in examining origins of COVID-19 -- CBS
Biden tells intelligence agencies to step up probe of COVID-19's origins, including theory of Wuhan lab leak -- USA Today
Biden orders spy agencies to review whether COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab -- NYPost
