We are now almost halfway through the 90-day period that President Biden set for the U.S. intelligence community to redouble “efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” about the origin of COVID-19. Sometime in the middle of July, President Biden is scheduled to receive an update on those efforts.
It will be a pleasant surprise if the U.S. intelligence community’s review comes to any definitive answers, or even leans strongly in one direction between the lab-leak hypothesis and hypothesis that the virus jumped into a human being in some manner entirely unconnected to either of Wuhan’s two laboratories studying novel coronaviruses in bats. Avril Haines, the U.S. director of national intelligence, appears to be attempting to lower expectations surrounding the review.
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