Intelligence Community: COVID-19 Origins Are Still Unclear

A recent report did confirm that Chinese officials were unaware of the virus before the outbreak began.

How did COVID-19 begin? A declassified summary assessing its origins shows the intelligence community still isn't sure.  Friday’s report says there's no consensus on whether it emerged naturally from human contact with animals or from an accidental lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.    The two-page report says analysts and scientists lack clinical samples but that COVID-19 was "not developed as a biological weapon" and that Chinese officials didn't know about the virus before the outbreak began.