by Adam Manno at The Daily Mail
US intelligence agencies are looking through a large trove of virus samples from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in a bid to determine whether COVID-19 may have originated there after the theory was largely dismissed last year.
The search is part of President Joe Biden‘s push for the intelligence community to reach a definitive answer on the origins of COVID-19 by the end of this month.
Intelligence officials have decided on two likely scenarios: that the virus emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident, Biden said when he announced a 90-day push for answers on May 26.
Multiple sources have told CNN that intelligence agencies are now studying a giant catalog containing the genetic blueprints of virus samples studied at the lab in Wuhan.
It’s unclear how the US obtained access to the data given that the Chinese government has been uncooperative in efforts to track down the origins of the virus.
China refused to hand over raw data on 174 early cases to a team of investigators at the World Health Organization, according to Reuters. The country has defended its transparency efforts…
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