"Biden took an important *but limited* step Wednesday toward a genuine investigation into the origins of covid..He issued..order directing..intelligence agencies to 'redouble..efforts' to look into..two competing hypotheses about..source of the pandemic"
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"But this represents just one aspect of a growing U.S. government and congressional effort to finally try — as best we can — to get to the bottom of how the pandemic started."
"Biden’s officials..insist Biden himself always believed the lab accident theory was plausible and needed investigation. Even so, there’s concern on Capitol Hill that the White House may use the new investigation to thwart several ongoing inquiries by lawmakers."
"Over the next 90 days, this investigation..should examine any and all information on the Wuhan Institute of Virology held by..NIH..USAID..DoD..DHS..and NSF. The list also includes the nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance, which channeled U.S. funding to the Wuhan lab."
"On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment that would ban all US government funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology..In the House, Democratic leaders are now openly calling for a public investigation into the lab leak theory."
"Along the way we need to completely rethink how we manage oversight of..labs..Put simply, it has become..clear....labs.., which have a record of safety lapses, operate with little transparency and zero accountability, which means they present a..risk that must be mitigated."
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