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Hearing exposes how politics slowed US investigation into COVID origins

21/04/2023 03:56 PM | Click to read full article

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in a hearing continued to peel back the curtain on the sluggish early US investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Some evidence may have been lost to time as the possibility of a lab origin has been maligned as a conspiracy theory for years. More than three years have passed since a highly transmissible novel coronavirus first emerged out of Wuhan, China, yet key details about the pandemic’s origin are still unclear.

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