Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Executive Summary: This report responds to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which called for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to declassify information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic... This report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses...

IC Assessments on COVID-19 Origins: ... All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection...

• The Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation assess thtat a laboratory-associated incident was teh most likely cause of the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2...
• The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions ro face challenges with conflicting reporting."