{"id":1861299,"date":"2023-02-26T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861299"},"modified":"2023-02-26T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:05:33","slug":"report-covid-likely-emerged-from-lab-leak-energy-dept-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-covid-likely-emerged-from-lab-leak-energy-dept-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: COVID Likely Emerged From Lab Leak, Energy Dept Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-covid-likely-emerged-from-lab-leak-energy-dept-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>According to the Department of Energy COVID-19 probably arose from a leakage in a laboratory in China. <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> This report was published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This was the basis of the department&#8217;s conclusion. &#8220;new intelligence,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\">according<\/a> The <em>Journal<\/em>, and joins with the FBI as the only federal agencies that publicly support the so-called laboratory leak theory.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI ended 2021 with &#8220;moderate confidence&#8221; The pandemic began with an epidemic. &#8220;laboratory accident,&#8221; According to a declassified intelligence document.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans made the same finding this month <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-us-republican-party-brad-wenstrup-james-comer-anthony-fauci-5fdee072d1d60ae097e7044c73a5d3ca\">A probe was launched<\/a> Investigating the causes of the coronavirus pandemic. The House Oversight Committee asked for information from the Biden Administration on the lab leak theory. Also, Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s testimony, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denied that COVID had leaked from a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been raising the possibility that coronavirus was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology. Democrats dismissed this idea as a conspiracy theory. Donald Trump&#8217;s resignation made President Joe Biden more open to the possibility. &#8220;was viewed as wanting to vilify China to deflect blame for his handling of the pandemic,&#8221; Current and former officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/923e0256-7f7e-43ef-b4fe-64c066b8b70b\">Submitted<\/a> The <em>Financial Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>State Department officials warned that safety measures were being taken at Chinese laboratories studying coronaviruses, starting in 2018. <em>Journal<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>U.S. State Department cables dated 2018 and internal Chinese documents reveal that there were still concerns about China&#8217;s biosafety procedures. This has been cited by supporters of the laboratory-leak hypothesis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wuhan has a number of laboratories. Many of them were created or expanded after China&#8217;s traumatizing experience with the first severe acute respiratory syndrome (or SARS) epidemic in 2002. They include campuses of Wuhan Institute of Virology and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Initial thought was that the virus originated from a Wuhan seafood-market outbreak. However, some scientists and Chinese public health officials now consider it a case of community spread, rather than the location where the first human infection occurred. The 2021 intelligence community report stated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Energy has determined that COVID-19 likely emerged from a laboratory leak in China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe post Report: COVID Likely Emerged From Lab Leak, Energy Dept Says appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":541977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4127,4098,19777,4486,8459,3654,3819],"class_list":["post-1861299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-covid","tag-dept","tag-emerged","tag-energy","tag-lab","tag-leak","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}