NEW YORK – The US Department of Energy has joined other federal agencies such as the FBI in its conclusion that COVID-19 “most likely” originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory, The Wall reported Sunday. StreetJournal.
Citing “a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of the (US) Congress,” the newspaper noted that four other US departments continue to believe that the coronavirus outbreak was likely the result of natural transmission. , while two others are undecided.
The New York newspaper notes that the Department of Energy’s conclusion is the result of reading new intelligence data and considers this conclusion significant because this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories, some of which carry out advanced biological research.
However, the Journal notes that the Department of Energy makes this claim with “low confidence,” whereas when the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021, it rated its confidence level as “moderate.”
Depending on the quality of the information and its provenance, the US intelligence services usually assign three levels of confidence to their conclusions: high, moderate and low.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan declined to confirm or deny the veracity of the information published by The Wall Street Journal.
Doctor Ricardo Correa explains what the COVID-19 emergency means on May 11. Valeria Aponte Feliciano moderates the interview.
In an interview this Sunday on CNN, Sullivan limited himself to pointing out that US intelligence has not yet reached a definitive answer about the origin of COVID-19 and, while some agencies believe that the virus originated in a laboratory, others allege They don’t have enough information to come to a conclusion.
US President Joe Biden asked the intelligence community at the beginning of his term, in May 2021, to investigate the origins of the pandemic.