Intelligence agencies unlikely to find origins of COVID-19 without cooperation from China
CBSN
New details released Friday by the U.S. intelligence community reaffirm that its agencies are unlikely to determine the origins of COVID-19, absent new information or greater cooperation from China.
The 17-page declassified report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence offers a window into the breadth and intensity of the intelligence community's efforts to arrive at a firm conclusion about the pandemic's origins, but contains no new insights into exactly how or where the virus first emerged.
As was first revealed in a summary document in August, intelligence agencies coalesced around two theories deemed "plausible" – four agencies and the National Intelligence Council assessed with low confidence that the virus resulted naturally; one assessed with moderate confidence that it was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
