• Pandemic WHO abandons research to find out the origins of Covid

The US Department of Energy has joined other federal agencies such as the FBI in its conclusion that Covid "most likely" originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory, The Wall Street Journal

reported

.

The newspaper, citing "a

classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of the (

US) Congress", notes that four other US departments continue to believe that the coronavirus outbreak was probably the result of natural transmission. , while two others are undecided.

The New York newspaper points out that the Department of Energy's conclusion is the result of reading new intelligence data and considers this conclusion significant because

this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories

, some of which carry out advanced biological research.

However, the

Journal

notes that the Department of Energy

makes this claim with "low confidence," whereas when the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021, it rated its confidence level as "moderate

. "

Depending on the quality of the information and its provenance, the US intelligence services usually assign three levels of confidence to their conclusions: high, moderate and low.

White House National Security Adviser

Jake Sullivan refused to confirm or deny the veracity of the information

published by

The Wall Street Journal

.

In an interview this Sunday on CNN, Sullivan limited himself to pointing out that

US intelligence has not yet reached a definitive answer about the origin of Covid-19

and, while some agencies believe that the virus originated in a laboratory, others allege They don't have enough information to come to a conclusion.

US President

Joe Biden asked the intelligence community at the beginning of his term, in May 2021, to investigate the origins of the pandemic

.

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