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Biden ‘SHUT DOWN secret Trump-era State Department investigation’ into Wuhan lab at center of Covid ‘leak’ theory
JOE Biden's administration shut down a Donald Trump-era investigation into the Wuhan institute at the center of the Covid-19 lab "leak" theory, it was reported Tuesday.
The State Department effort to prove originated in a Chinese lab was reportedly stopped by over concerns about the "quality of work" - but will raise concerns of a potential whitewash.
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The probe was launched last fall by allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, , citing sources close to the matter.
The news comes as a renewed interest into whether the virus could have originated in a lab has been made public.
A bombshell report released by the this week alleged that three staffers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology , weeks before China disclosed the outbreak to the world.
The report led to renewed calls for a broader probe into whether Covid-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, where the pandemic is widely believed to have begun.
Even the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci admitted that he .
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Those involved in the probe that was shuttered say that it was an honest effort to look into whether China's biological weapons program could have played a role in the pandemic's origin, according to CNN.
Biden officials reportedly made the decision to shut down the probe after being briefed on the team's findings in February and March of this year.
The inquiry reportedly led to internal turmoil in the department, as some viewed it as a way for the administration to politicize and blame China for the global pandemic.
However, sources involved in the probe told CNN that their work was to examine scientific research and information objectively.
After news of Wuhan lab staffers falling ill broke, for the pandemic.
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"I think you can take the word ‘potential’ out that it came from the lab," he told Fox Nation's Dan Bognino on Monday.
During a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, Trump said there's "no doubt" in his mind that the virus came from the Wuhan lab before touting his role in developing the Covid vaccines.
The Biden administration's effort to investigate the origins of Covid-19 focus more on backing the World Health Organization's investigation and demanding transparency from China.
The WHO that the origin of Covid-19 is still unclear and further investigations are needed.
Biden's security officials have also admitted that the US is still mired in trying to figure out how the virus became a global pandemic.
"It is absolutely accurate the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially," US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said last month during a congressional briefing.
Over the weekend, China's foreign ministry noted that the WHO-led team concluded a lab leak was extremely unlikely after a visit to Wuhan in February, and blamed the US for continuing to "hype the lab leak theory."
"Is it actually concerned about tracing the source or trying to divert attention?" the ministry asked.
A WHO task force spent four weeks investigating the outbreak in Wuhan in January and February.
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The organization concluded it was "extremely unlikely" that it was caused by a lab leak, but noted that further investigation is needed.
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However, earlier this month a group of leading scientists said the possibility of coronavirus accidentally escaping from the Wuhan lab in China "remains viable."
In a letter published in the journal Science, 18 researchers from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and Cambridge blasted the WHO and scientists who followed it for failing to consider that there may have been an "accidental" lab escape.
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