{"id":159034,"date":"2023-02-26T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/us-energy-department-assesses-covid-19-likely-resulted-from-lab-leak-furthering-us-intel-divide-over-virus-origin"},"modified":"2023-02-26T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T21:23:40","slug":"us-energy-department-assesses-covid-19-likely-resulted-from-lab-leak-furthering-us-intel-divide-over-virus-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/us-energy-department-assesses-covid-19-likely-resulted-from-lab-leak-furthering-us-intel-divide-over-virus-origin","title":{"rendered":"US Energy Department assesses Covid-19 likely resulted from lab leak, furthering US intel divide over virus origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-energy-department-assesses-covid-19-likely-resulted-from-lab-leak-furthering-us-intel-divide-over-virus-origin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Energy has assessed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2020\/health\/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases\" target=\"_blank\">the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a> most likely came from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/16\/politics\/biden-intel-review-covid-origins\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">laboratory leak in China<\/a>, according to a newly updated classified intelligence report.<\/p>\n<p>Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had \u201clow confidence\u201d the Covid-19 virus accidentally escaped from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/health\/2021\/08\/25\/wuhan-lab-leak-china-culver-newday-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">a lab in Wuhan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence agencies can make assessments with either low, medium or high confidence. A low confidence assessment generally means that the information obtained is not reliable enough or too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Energy has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China, according to a newly updated classified intelligence report. Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had \u201clow confidence\u201d the Covid-19 virus accidentally escaped from a lab in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159034","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}