Mike Pompeo doubles down on unproven theory that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese lab
Mike Pompeo claimed this morning that there's "enormous evidence" to support the theory that the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab, but didn't elaborate on what that evidence consists of.https://www.axios.com/pompeo-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-5f305526-9ceb-49af-943a-fd8291a6d5d9.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100 …
Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19pic.twitter.com/MIPr6LVzU4
Q: Does @WHO believe the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the origin of #Covid19?
@DrMikeRyan says the organization has listened to the experts regarding the virus' origin: "We are assured that this virus is natural in origin"pic.twitter.com/FchEcTPTaG
WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib said that “all available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else." #COVID19https://twitter.com/i/events/1252668213852114944 …
"I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan."
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made this #coronavirus origin claim on 'ABC This Morning' without offering any proof
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells @MarthaRaddatz China “did all that it could to make sure the world didn’t learn in a timely fashion” about COVID-19.
"It was a classic communist disinformation effort," he adds and they will be held "accountable." https://abcn.ws/3dc3SYE pic.twitter.com/n2o65yWYRB
"While the Intelligence Community continues to do its work, they should continue to do that and verify so that we are certain, I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan," Pompeo says on ABC today, echoing Trump.
#UPDATE The high-security bio-containment facility, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has called such claims "impossible"http://u.afp.com/3fad
A fringe theory suggests the coronavirus could have leaked from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, but there's no evidence of this. Here's why an accidental lab leak is extremely unlikely.https://bit.ly/2WiSUdg
A leaked dossier compiled by the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance suggests that China does not provide any evidence that the coronavirus was constructed in a laboratory.https://twitter.com/i/events/1256692486543536129 …