Thread by @JerryDunleavy

Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger on COVID19: “There is a growing body of evidence to say a laboratory leak or accident is very much a credible possibility. Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story.”
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Speaking of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, another Trump admin official told me: “I don’t know of anybody in the federal government with access to all of the info that does not believe that this is a plausible scenario, if not the most plausible scenario.”
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Tom Cotton: “The CCP thwarted investigations into the coronavirus’s origins. Circumstantial evidence points to the Wuhan lab, where accidental release remains the most likely scenario, but we can’t rule out other origins, including a natural transmission.”
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Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry & chemical biology at Rutgers, on the origins of the novel coronavirus in China — he says an initial infection through a natural accident & an initial infection through a Wuhan lab accident are both plausible.

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