LAB LEAK THEORY
A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. T he Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded that the coronavirus “ likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident ” ... The 520-page report , which was two years in the making, looked at the federal and state-level response to the pandemic, as well as its origins and vaccination efforts. Among the report’s headline conclusions was that the US National Institutes of Health (NIS) funded contentious “ gain-of-function ” research – which enhances viruses to find ways to combat them – at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China prior to the outbreak. The department’s finding echoed that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which said in 2021 with “moderate confidence” that the virus probably spread after a laboratory mishap . The House committee was convinced by the la...