Is Congress finally getting serious about investigating Covid’s origins?
Wednesday’s hearing on the origin of Covid-19 by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic was long overdue. It has been more than three years since the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, was first detected in Wuhan, China. Yet far too little has been done in the United States to find out how the pandemic started. Separate investigations by US intelligence agencies have led to one assessment of a lab leak with moderate confidence by the FBI, a scattering of low-confidence assessments — the Department of Energy leans toward a lab origin while four agencies lean toward a natural origin — and two agencies undecided.
