KEY POINTS
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- President Biden has ordered a closer intelligence review of what he said were two equally plausible scenarios of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Biden revealed that earlier this year, he asked the intelligence community to assess "whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal, or from a laboratory accident."
- The hypothesis that the virus may have escaped from a Chinese lab has gained more mainstream traction
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Biden orders closer review of Covid origins as U.S. intel weighs Wuhan lab leak theory
President Biden ordered a closer intelligence review of what he said were two equally plausible scenarios of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.