PRESIDENT Joe Biden on Wednesday upped the pressure on intelligence agencies to gather more information on the origin of the coronavirus and pressed China to cooperate with an international investigation.
“I have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden wrote in a statement.
He said that the U.S. intelligence community has “coalesced around two likely scenarios” for the coronavirus origin but hasn’t reached a conclusion as to whether the virus emerged from human contact with an infected animal or a laboratory accident.
Biden reported that the intelligence community’s position on the origin question is that “while two elements in the IC leans toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter – each with low or moderate confidence – the majority of
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