The Trump CIA now supports the controversial theory of leakage of the Covid-19 lab

The Central Intelligence Agency has officially changed its position on how the Covid-19 pandemia first started. In the weekend, the agency said it now believes that the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 most probably leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, not from direct transmission of human animals.

CIA director John Ratcliffe recently Decadal and released the findings From the evaluation on Saturday. While now the CIA supports the often called the theory of the leakage of the Covid-19 origin laboratory, however, the agency said it only had a “low degree of trust” in its conclusion. In addition, the agency did not rule out the possibility of Covid-19 may have appeared naturally.

“(CIA) continues to appreciate that both scientific research scenarios and the natural origin of the Covid-19 pandemic origin remain plausible,” a CIA spokesman said in a statement published on Saturday.

China fiercely rejected the CIA’s findings. “The conclusion that the expiration of a laboratory is extremely unlikely from the team of a joint expert in China, which is based on the visits to the terrain in the respective laboratories in Ama,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mao Ning of Press conference held on Monday.

The debate about where the Covid-19 has come, has been raging for years. In conspiracy parts, some people come to the point that China has deliberately designed and released Covid-19 as biological treatment. Another theory is that China (and maybe the US) closed its eyes to dangerous studies of viruses conducted in a Wuhan-investigation, which ultimately led to the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, fled the laboratory and infects people. In this scenario, the virus may simply have been collected from the wild and then expire or its offspring may have experimented first and then become a virus that can easily infect people.

China has certainly not made any favors in retreating suspicion of his role in the pandemic. His leadership Limited information About Covid-19 early, silenced doctors who tried to alert others to the threat. And she has shattered efforts from external groups, including the World Health Organization, to examine the origin of the virus, even if this dayS This said any scenario would be disturbing to the country, given that China promised to improve its Monitoring of occurring diseases As a result of the 2002 epidemic of the original SARS virus caused by the transmission of animals to a person.

Although there are remarkable scientists and health officials who support the laboratory theory of the laboratory (including former CDC leader of President Donald Trump, Robert Redfield), it seems that the majority of the experts concerned is not the opinion of the majority. Exploration Held last fall For virologists and epidemiologists in this area, for example, they have found that most are in favor of natural zootic origin (the virus spread from animals to humans) for Covid-19. Recent studies have also provided more in the absence of evidence The fact that the virus is probably circulating among animals that would get into close contact with humans during the earliest days of the pandemic-a necessary step for a zoonotic transmission, if not a bona fide gun for smoking for it.

The CIA’s new rating began under the guidance of former CIA director William Burns during the Biden Administration. Critics claim that findings have been released for the progress of the agency’s new director’s policy, a Long -time of the theory of the leakage of the laboratory. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist in the organization of the vaccine and infectious diseases (VIDO) at the University of Saskachewan, notes that Ratcliffe and other intelligence officials have created together “togetherInformation sheet“This made the laboratory leak in the last days of Trump’s first administration. This is a case littered with unsupported allegations of the laboratory from which the virus has expired, the Institute for the Vuhan virus, she claims.

“The new assessment is probably the result of uncritical acceptance of the allegations of this fact sheet as to that when there is no actual basis for it,” Rasmussen, which took place Research Looking at the origin of Covid-19, Gizmodo told.

The important thing is that the CIA acknowledges that its displaced position on the origin of Covid-19 has not been guided by any major new intelligence. The FBI and the Energy Department also supported the theory of the laboratory leak as a likely origin, but At least five other intelligence agencies Later, believe that zoonotic origin is more likely. Given the low confidence in its own discoveries, the new CIA rating is unlikely to swing on someone firmly in the zoonotic (ie, animal transmission). But Rasmussen believes that the evaluation will facilitate the renewed Trump administration to achieve its less than the virtuous goals elsewhere.

“The leakage of the laboratory contributes to the political goals of the Trump administration, including the exclusion of infectious diseases and studies of vaccines, the elimination of public health, eroding confidence in science and scientists and the taking of retribution against perceived political adversaries,” Rasmussen said. “In service of these purposes, this assessment has been changed and no scientific change.”