Covid-19 roundup: President Biden orders intelligence community to redouble efforts to determine if virus originated in animals or a lab in China
The brewing controversy over the origins of Covid-19 erupted on Wednesday as President Joe Biden ordered the US intelligence community and government labs to double down on their efforts to reach a consensus over 2 competing theories in the next 90 days.
As of now, Biden said in a statement released by the White House, the intelligence community is divided into 2 camps: 1 that believes the virus likely originated in animals in China and jumped to humans, and 1 that believes it likely resulted from a lab accident in China.
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