The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.  “It is ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) backs the COVID-19 lab leak theory, Knewz.com can reveal. According to an assessment by new CIA director John Ratcliffe, the agency has “low confidence” in this ...

The announcement follows the arrival of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the agency.

The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated ... on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

The CIA’s shift in assessment does not ... The first known cases of COVID-19 in humans came in Wuhan in November 2019. Some 1.2 million Americans were died in the COVID-19 pandemic, per data ...

THE CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden's administration. In a bombshell declassified ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took a victory lap for President Trump on the IA's recent assessment that ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies ...