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O-47 - In Feb 2023 the DOE shifted to assessing with 'low confidence' that COVID-19 most likely came from a Wuhan lab leak

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In a classified intelligence-community update provided to the White House and Congress (reported by the Wall Street Journal on 26 Feb 2023), the U.S. Department of Energy shifted from having no position to assessing, with 'low confidence,' that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan.
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S-84 - FBI and DOE 2023 agency-confidence positions on a lab-associated origin
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NPR/Morning Edition interview with WSJ's Michael Gordon (27 Feb 2023)
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It's gone from saying, well, we don't know to, we think it's most likely it did come from a lab, though with low confidence. So they've now aligned with the FBI in this intelligence community assessment that was provided to the White House last month but not acknowledged publicly.

The headline documentary event: a second US agency (DOE) joining the FBI on a lab-leaning assessment, at explicitly low confidence, via a classified update. DOE oversees the national labs (e.g. Lawrence Livermore) and brings scientific expertise to the question.

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