CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins(nytimes.com)
469 points by doctaj | 578 comments
New York Times article reporting that the CIA now assesses a lab leak as the likely origin of Covid; the page loaded a captcha instead.
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First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources(public.substack.com)
603 points by larsiusprime | 569 comments
A Public (Substack) article claiming US government sources identified Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists doing gain-of-function research as the first COVID-19 cases.
Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid(thetimes.co.uk)
590 points by ricksunny | 624 comments
The Times Insight investigation into what happened inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the weeks before the Covid-19 outbreak.