Where Covid-19 came from isn’t as important as what comes next Laura Spinney
US intelligence services have briefed the president, Joe Biden, on the results of their 90-day investigation into the origins of Covid-19. They were asked to test two hypotheses: that it had a “natural” origin, or that it escaped from a lab. Preliminary reports suggest that their findings are inconclusive. Biden ordered the latest investigation partly because of widespread dissatisfaction with one set up by the World Health Organization, which reported in March that a lab origin was “extremely unlikely”.
Many saw the WHO’s efforts as compromised because China used
