Overview

• The Trump administration's updated Covid.gov website prominently supports the theory that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
• The site accuses Dr. Anthony Fauci of commissioning research to discredit the lab-leak hypothesis and promoting a natural spillover origin.
• U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA under John Ratcliffe, now favor the lab-leak theory, though with varying levels of confidence in their assessments.
• The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) estimates an 80–95% probability that the virus emerged from a Chinese laboratory.
• Scientific consensus remains inconclusive, with studies pointing to both wildlife spillover and potential genetic engineering, leaving the origin of the virus unresolved.