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WaPo: Did a 2018 State Department memo predict COVID-19 as a Wuhan biological-lab accident?

By Thomas A. Smith

A smoking gun? Not quite, writes Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, but it certainly seems like a curious coincidence. According to a State Department cable Rogin obtained, officials sent up warnings less than two years before the outbreak of COVID-19 about safety and competence issues at a biological-containment lab in Wuhan. Specifically, they warned about the risk of a breakout of the bat-based coronaviruses being studied there and it wasn t the first warning, either:

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