Senate GOP report on COVID origin suggests lab leak is ‘most likely’

A report from the staff of the top Republican on the Senate health committee strongly suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 was introduced to the world by a lab leak in China, though it offers little new evidence.

The report from the office of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) concludes the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was “most likely the result of a research-related incident” in Wuhan, China.

“The hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy,” the report stated

The report cited gaps in previously-published scientific research arguing in favor of a “natural” origin from infected animals, as well as safety concerns at the Wuhan lab.

“Critical corroborating evidence of a natural zoonotic spillover is missing. While the absence of evidence is not itself evidence, the lack of corroborating evidence of a zoonotic spillover or spillovers, three years into the pandemic, is highly problematic,” the GOP report stated.

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Thomas Angle
Thomas Angle
2 years ago

Keep voting Republican.

brewer55
brewer55
2 years ago

***BREAKING NEWS!*** The US Senate agrees with the world that Covid came from a lab.

<yawn>

EddieHnatko
EddieHnatko
2 years ago
Reply to  brewer55

Well do tell. I never wudda guessed.

Louis Jenkins
Louis Jenkins
2 years ago

It’s too late Burr. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while, and you certainly are blind, and most likely deaf. So spare is your kingly findings. Never took the vaccine, and have no intentions of ever taking it.

Dan
Dan
2 years ago

Not a “leak”. A deliberate act. The CCP and DNC conspired to release the virus for two reasons. One to use as faux justification for “mail in voting” which made stealing the 2020 election incredibly easy for them and two to create an excuse to poison literally millions of people with the poison jabs designed to kill, sterilize and maim. The “vaccine” was NOT designed for the virus. The virus was designed for the “vaccine”.

Noway2
Noway2
2 years ago

One has to wonder why they’re pushing this narrative now. Every thinking individual knows that A) it was engineered and B) the US is up to its eyeballs in complicit guilt. Whether it escaped accidentally or intentionally doesn’t really matter. What matters is that playing god never leads to good ends and they shouldn’t have done this at all. And for the love of all that is holy, WHY would you do it in a place like China!

Citizen Joe
Citizen Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  Noway2

The scientists that made Covid19 at UNC Chapel Hill claim they weren’t able to make it as contagious as they wanted it, so they outsourced it to the expert in Wuhan. She was able to insert an HIV component into the virus and make it more contagious. Her name is Dr. Shi Zing Li. Not real sure of the spelling.