{"id":106465,"date":"2020-05-03T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/pompeo-enormous-evidence-links-virus-to-china-lab"},"modified":"2020-05-03T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:22:45","slug":"pompeo-enormous-evidence-links-virus-to-china-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/pompeo-enormous-evidence-links-virus-to-china-lab","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo: \u2018Enormous Evidence\u2019 Links Virus to China Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pompeo-enormous-evidence-links-virus-to-china-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said \u201cenormous evidence\u201d shows the novel coronavirus outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but didn\u2019t provide any proof for his claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,\u201d Pompeo said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cThese are not the first times that we\u2019ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo stopped short of saying the virus was man-made, noting that he agreed with a report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that ruled out genetic modification or it having been man-made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said \u201cenormous evidence\u201d shows the novel coronavirus outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but didn\u2019t provide any proof for his claims. \u201cI can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,\u201d Pompeo said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}