House Report Points to Lab Leak as Likely Origin of COVID-19

A Republican-led congressional investigation concludes COVID-19 likely originated from a Wuhan lab accident, while Democrats call the evidence circumstantial but plausible.

• The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a 520-page report asserting that COVID-19 likely resulted from a laboratory or research-related accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• The report highlights risky gain-of-function research funded by U.S. federal grants and conducted under inadequate biosafety protocols at the Wuhan lab prior to the pandemic.
• Democratic members of the subcommittee acknowledged the lab-leak theory as plausible but based on largely circumstantial evidence, while also considering zoonotic transmission as a possibility.
• The report underscores the lack of verified evidence supporting the wildlife trade theory, such as infected animals or ancestral virus variants linked to COVID-19 in Wuhan's market supply chain.
• President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to hold China accountable, proposing global reparations for the pandemic's widespread health, economic, and social impact.

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