Tom Cotton slams 'reporters and activists in white lab coats' for dismissing lab-leak theory
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., criticized “reporters [and] activists in white lab coats” for dismissing a theory linking the origins of COVID-19 to a Wuhan, China-based virology lab.
But reporters and outlets are now walking back their initial dismissals of the theory after officials revealed over the weekend that several workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in mid-November 2019, about a month before the first COVID-19 case was reported in the Chinese city. "The lab-leak hypothesis was always reasonable, but reporters & activists in white lab coats nonetheless spent the better part of a year denouncing it as a ‘conspiracy theory,’" Cotton tweeted late Tuesday. "They were wrong. But that’s not what’s most important now. What’s important is truth & accountability."More Related News