WASHINGTON ¨C The CIA has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the COVID-19 pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.
But the agency issued a new assessment this past week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.
There is no new intelligence behind the agency¡¯s shift, officials said. Rather, it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing on for months.
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