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Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19
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In 2025, the Trump administration took down some government websites providing COVID-19 information and replaced them with a page called "LAB LEAK: The True Origins of COVID-19," dedicated to the controversial theory.
Supporters of what's now known as the "lab leak" theory note that the analysis of the virus by scientists relied on incomplete data provided by the Chinese government.
Some U.S. intelligence agencies have also expressed a low-to-moderate degree of confidence in the accidental lab leak theory.
They wrote that much of the information needed to assess the lab leak theory had not been made available to them.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered this perspective: "As things stand, all hypotheses must remain on the table, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak.