Lab accident is most likely but least probed COVID origin, State Dept. memo says – U.S. Right to Know

State Department officials considered a lab accident to be the most likely cause of COVID-19 in the pandemic s early months and worried that international virologists may help with a coverup, according to a 2020 memo obtained by U.S. Right to Know.

Origin of the outbreak: The Wuhan labs remained the most likely but least probed, reads the topline. 

The memo is written as a BLUF bottom line up front a style of communication used in the military. The identity of the author or authors is unknown. 

In response to questions from a reporter, a State Department spokesperson referred U.S. Right to Know to an inconclusive 90-day review by the intelligence community in 2021.

BLUF: There is no direct, smoking gun evidence to prove that a leak from Wuhan labs caused the pandemic, but there is circumstantial evidence to suggest such is the case, the memo reads.

Apparently drafted in spring 2020, the memo details circumstantial evidence for the lab leak theory the idea that COVID-19 originated at one of the labs in Wuhan, China, the pandemic s epicenter. 

The memo raises concerns about the massive amount of research on novel coronaviruses apparently conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control lab. 

The central issue involves the WCDC and WIV s obsession with collecting and testing a massive amount of virus-carrying bats, the memo reads.  

via usrtk.org