The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was a manmade pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory ...

The U.S. government is increasingly supporting the “lab leak” theory. But with no new evidence released, it’s impossible to evaluate the accuracy of that conclusion.

Several viral Instagram posts claim that the agency now supports the lab leak hypothesis. “The CIA says COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak,” reads two versions of the post.

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s new CIA director has weighed into the contentious debate saying a lab leak was “most likely”.

Under his leadership, newly appointed CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken swift action, declassifying the CIA analysis of the virus, which lo and behold, favors the lab leak theory.

MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- After years of speculation, the CIA has weighed in yet again: A lab leak is now ...

Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a conclusion similar to the CIA’s new one: that a lab leak was responsible for the pandemic, though it could also say so only with “low ...

The CIA, now under new management, has declared that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid “most likely” originated and then leaked from a lab at Wuhan in Communist China. The Central Intelligence ...

China denies lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins amid CIA's low-confidence assessment. Scientists and the public debate continues over the virus's origins and China's transparency.

This week, we look back at the progression of the lab-leak theory from “racist” conspiracy theory to likelier-than-not possibility, and we cover more media misses.