House Republicans are suggesting that COVID-19 could be traced back to a bioweapons program run by the Chinese government, it was reported on Wednesday.
In a damning report on the coronavirus pandemic’s origins, GOP lawmakers stopped short of directly tying the disease to Beijing’s weapons research.
The investigation was led by GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the report, obtained by DailyMail.com and first shared on Fox News, stated.
They also issued a harsh rebuke of American intelligence agencies, whom they accused of misleading the public and ‘downplaying’ information when they suggested the virus likely had no bioweapon origins.
‘The [intelligence community] withheld key information from the public…information that could have been shared without damaging national security. These omissions likely skewed the public’s understanding of key issues and deepened mistrust,’ it stated.
But they don’t believe the outbreak was intentional, the report suggested.
It claimed that the virus likely escaped Wuhan – where COVID was first detected – after making human contact in a ‘lab-related incident.’
There have been several reports on the national and global scale trying to crack the origins of the virus which paralyzed the world and its economy.
But only so much can be conclusively decoded with the limited cooperation that China is providing to the international community.
A declassified report by the U.S. intelligence community released in October 2021 failed to conclusively reach whether COVID-19 emerged in nature or was created in a lab, but suggested it was not related to biological weapons.
But Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee said their findings run ‘contrary’ to those in the earlier assessment.
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