Declassification of Covid Data Likely To Prompt More, Not Less, Speculation About Origins of Virus

President Biden promised to share as much classified information ‘as possible’ about the origins of the virus.

AP/Ng Han Guan, file
Security personnel at the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology at Wuhan, China in 2021. AP/Ng Han Guan, file

The looming declassification of materials relating to the origin of Covid — with an important caveat — is sure to spur another round of speculation into the virus’s origin, even though many of the details from the earliest days of the pandemic are murky.

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