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Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Did SARS-CoV-2 begin through a research-related laboratory incident?

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Public U.S. intelligence statements show that some agencies, including the FBI, assess a laboratory-associated incident as the more likely origin while the Intelligence Community as a whole remains divided.

The underlying classified evidence is not publicly reproducible, so these assessments cannot be independently weighted like published empirical studies.

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