House Intel Republicans: ‘Significant Circumstantial Evidence’ Supports Wuhan Lab As COVID Origin

House Intelligence Committee Republicans are arguing that there is “significant circumstantial evidence” to support that the COVID-19 outbreak originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.

In a report released on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member 👤Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Republicans said it is “crucial for health experts and the U.S. government to understand how the COVID-19 virus originated” to prevent “or quickly mitigate future pandemics,” according to Fox News.

The Republicans are calling for “more pressure” to be put on China by the U.S. federal government for a “full, credible investigation.”

“To protect American citizens from future pandemics, the U.S. Government must place more pressure on China to allow full, credible investigations of the source of the COVID-19 pandemic and to allow probes of the likelihood that it resulted from a lab leak. The U.S. Government must also provide a full accounting of any American cooperation with the Wuhan lab’s coronavirus research, including the support of these projects through U.S. Government funds.”

The report adds, “International efforts to discover the true source of the virus, however, have been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the 🇨🇳People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, significant circumstantial evidence raises serious concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak may have been a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”