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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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