- Former CDC director Robert Redfield accused top federal health officials of excluding him from discussions in early 2020 about whether the coronavirus was the result of a laboratory leak.
- House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is digging into the origins of a virus that has killed nearly seven million people worldwide.
- Energy Department has concluded, with low confidence, that the pandemic was most likely the result of a lab accident.
- Scientists have said natural evolutionary processes could easily explain the presence of the furin cleavage site.
- Republicans and Democrats have used the hearing for political theater.
Republicans Push Lab Leak Theory on Covid’s Origins, but Lack ‘Smoking Gun’
The first hearing of a House panel charged with investigating the origins of the pandemic underscored just how difficult it might be to turn up conclusive evidence.
By Sheryl Gay Stolbe
