New CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the covid origins analysis declassified, which a spokesperson described as a “low-confidence” assessment.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

The origin of Covid-19 has always been a point of contention in the U.S., but the CIA recently claimed they now believe it came from a lab leak. In a statement on January 25, a spokesperson for the government organization shared the “CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a