It offers a rare moment of bipartisanship despite the often heated rhetoric about the origins of the coronavirus and the questions about the response to the virus by U.S. Led by Republicans, the focus on the virus origins comes as the House launched a select committee with a hearing earlier in the week delving into theories about how the pandemic started. Jim Himes, of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, during the debate. “Transparency is a cornerstone of our democracy,” said Rep. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.Įxperts say the true origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1 million Americans, may not be known for many years – if ever. The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
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