President Biden on Thursday said that he would publicly release findings of an intelligence community review of the origins of COVID-19 that he has …
President Biden on Thursday said that he would publicly release findings of an intelligence community review of the origins of COVID-19 that he has ordered completed within 90 days. “Yes,” Biden answered when asked by reporters at Joint Base Andrews if he would release the findings in full. He added: “Unless there’s something I’m unaware of.” The remarks from the president come a day after he ordered intelligence officials to “redouble their efforts” to come to a conclusion on the origins of the virus. A previous investigation did not produce a definitive answer on whether COVID-19 spread through contact between an animal and a human or as a result of a laboratory accident. Biden said Wednesday that he required an intelligence community report on the coronavirus origins in March that was delivered to him earlier this month. The Office of Director of National Intelligence affirmed in a statement on Thursday that the intelligence community has “coalesced around two likely scenarios” of the virus’s origin, namely that it emerged naturally from contact between a human and infected animals or from a lab accident.
