The White House has identified a laboratory leak in Wuhan as the origin of Covid-19, resting its case on two claims about the virus itself. Neither an infected intermediate animal nor a laboratory progenitor virus has ever been identified, and no independent researcher has entered the Wuhan institute. The report also disclosed that the justice department had subpoenaed EcoHealth’s correspondence with the Wuhan virologist Shi Zhengli, including her private email account. The subcommittee found that amounted to destroying federal records, a federal crime, and that Fauci prompted the March 2020 paper that dismissed a laboratory origin as implausible. Germany’s foreign intelligence service had concluded in 2020 that an accidental leak was highly probable, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.