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Tuesday, December 03, 2024

A final congressional report on COVID-19 released Monday has determined the virus likely emerged from a lab accident in China and that the U.S. government perpetrated "misinformation" by incorrectly calling the lab leak theory a "conspiracy."

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The House Oversight and Accountability Committee's COVID-19 panel, controlled by Republicans, issued its 520-page report two years after its investigation began and ahead of a hearing this week.

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... The House Oversight and Accountability Committee's COVID-19 panel, controlled by Republicans, issued its 520-page report two years after its investigation began and ahead of a hearing this week.

The report affirmed what has long been the leading theory, stating that a "lab-related incident" involving gain-of-function research in Wuhan is the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Researchers had initially suggested that the virus emerged in nature and jumped from animals to people, probably at a wildlife market in Wuhan.

"Four years after the onset of the worst pandemic in 100 years, the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis," the report stated.

The coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan in December 2019 before spreading worldwide and killing around 7 million people. FBI Director Christopher Wray has previously said the agency assessed that a leak from a lab in Wuhan "most likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic."

The report cites several reasons to back the conclusion, including that the lab in Wuhan is home to China's foremost SARS research lab, the lab had a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels and that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before it was discovered at the wet market.

The report also further implicates New York nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance of using U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 07:02 PM | Reply

@#1

United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

Rep Comer and Rep Jordan?


Given the apparent prior very questionable investigations of the two Representatives, why should this one be trusted?




#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 07:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

So Fat Donnie Loser was part of a conspiracy?

SHOCKED!

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-02 08:48 PM | Reply

I'll have to read the report but the short article doesn't suggest this is anything more than a political hit job rehashing long past beaten dead horse circumstantial evidence.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-02 11:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm not even through the first page and it's clear my assessment is correct.

This is pure garbage.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-02 11:08 PM | Reply

@#4 ... I'll have to read the report but the short article doesn't suggest this is anything more than a political hit job ...

Yeah, in my reading, that's my current view as well.


My view, as always, remains to be changed.



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 11:32 PM | Reply

This is pure garbage.

#5 | POSTED BY JPW

There is no way it can be determined what actually happened without cooperation from China.

And apparently that happening ain't happening.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-03 05:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Chy-Na

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-03 09:06 PM | Reply

I'll have to read the report but the short article doesn't suggest this is anything more than a political hit job rehashing long past beaten dead horse circumstantial evidence.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-02 11:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

Chy-Na

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-03 09:06 PM | Reply

This is pure garbage.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-02 11:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Chy-Na

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-03 09:07 PM | Reply

You see a pattern? You should.. Chy-Na!!!

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-03 09:08 PM | Reply

You see a pattern? You should.. Chy-Na!!!

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-03 09:08 PM | Reply

Yes I see a pattern here. You acting the fool like your leader Trump. Two peas in a pod.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-03 09:14 PM | Reply

JPW are you 100% certain that it was not a lab leak?

I'm not messing with you. Just curious as to what you think the likelihood is.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-03 11:25 PM | Reply

are you 100% certain that it was not a lab leak?

Obviously not possible.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-03 11:32 PM | Reply

Oh come on.

He never questions the bullshht republicans feed him.

But he needs 100% certainty from JPW.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-03 11:37 PM | Reply

He never questions the bullshht republicans feed him.

Even when they are not 100% sure. "Likely" is not 100% sure.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-03 11:44 PM | Reply

JPW is a scientist, there isn't a 100% sure beyond the laws of gravity.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-03 11:45 PM | Reply

I should have phrased it better.

JPW - on a scale of 1-10 with one being extremely unlikely and 10 being extremely likely, what number would you give that Covid was the result of a lab leak?

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-04 12:02 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I don't believe we will ever know 100% where it came from. It's been too politicized for an honest answer.

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-04 12:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I should have phrased it better.

That's a decent backpedal.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-04 12:30 AM | Reply

The amount of time Trumpers have spent fighting the idea of the virus, rather than working together to isolate and eliminate the virus, is emblematic of our nation failing.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-04 12:31 AM | Reply

#19. I think you are correct about that, Laura Mohr.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-04 12:36 AM | Reply

It seems very possible that Covid was developed in a laboratory. American politics have nothing to do with it. The corroborated circumstantial evidence is highly suggestive of that conclusion. Trump, Fauci, Biden - just disregard them all while trying to logically and scientifically figure out the most likely origin.

#23 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-12-04 01:04 AM | Reply

Very well stated, Moder8.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-04 01:32 AM | Reply

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