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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on June 08, 2021, 05:14:37 pm

Title: U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab - WSJ
Post by: PeteS in CA on June 08, 2021, 05:14:37 pm

U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab - WSJ

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-report-concluded-covid-19-may-have-leaked-wuhan-lab-wsj-2021-06-07/ (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-report-concluded-covid-19-may-have-leaked-wuhan-lab-wsj-2021-06-07/)

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A report on the origins of COVID-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis of a virus leak from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the classified document.

The study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was referred to by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic's origins during the final months of the Trump administration, the WSJ report said.

Lawrence Livermore's assessment drew on a genomic analysis of the COVID-19 virus, the Journal said. Lawrence Livermore declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal report.

My emphasis. So the State Department knew of this May 2020 report and referred to it "during the final months of the Trump administration". When did Foggy Bottom first learn of it, and who else knew and when, starting with who requested the study (NSA? CIA?)?!