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May 31, 2021
How Biden Came Around to the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory
Source: Financial Times
Journalist: Demetri Sevastopulo
When Joe Biden ordered US intelligence last week to intensify efforts to determine the origins of Covid-19, he gave fresh life to the theory that the virus may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The US president said that US intelligence had “coalesced around two scenarios” — that the virus had either emerged naturally or was the result of a lab accident.
It was the first time that the president had given credence to the possibility that the virus had leaked from a lab — a notion widely slammed as a conspiracy theory when Donald Trump first made the claim.
Read the full story and more from the Financial Times.