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Assessment On COVID-19 Origins
''Assessment on COVID-19 Origins'' is a 2021 United States intelligence report, which was commissioned on May 26, 2021 by President Joe Biden and declassified in August of the same year. Biden initially ordered his intelligence services to "redouble efforts" concerning the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The report was submitted to Biden on August 24, with an unclassified summary being made public three days later. Background Since the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 disease in early 2020, the US federal government under the Trump administration had been pushing for an investigation into a possible artificial origin of the disease. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that there was "enormous evidence" regarding a lab leak from the Wuhan institute, even as these claims were contradicted by US intelligence officials. In February 2021, following a mission to Wuhan conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), President Joe Biden' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Intelligence Community
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Zoonotic Origins Of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, was first introduced to humans through zoonosis (transmission of a pathogen to a human from an animal), and a zoonotic spillover event is the origin of COVID-19 that is considered most plausible by the scientific community. Human coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 are zoonotic diseases that are often acquired through spillover infection from animals. Background Previous emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV showed that Betacoronaviruses represent a risk for emergence of diseases threatening to humans. Increased awareness due to the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak motivated research into the potential for other coronavirus outbreaks and the animal reservoirs which could lead to them. Bats, in particular, are known to harbor persistent populations of coronaviruses, and under conditions of persistent infection, coronaviruses tend to accumulate mutations that allow their receptor binding domains to interact with cross-species orthologs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Intelligence Agencies
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Origin Of SARS-CoV-2
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been efforts by scientists, governments, and others to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Similar to other outbreaks, the virus was derived from a Bat virome, bat-borne virus and most likely was transmitted to humans zoonotic, via another animal in nature, or during wildlife trade such as that in food markets. While other explanations, such as speculations that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally COVID-19 lab leak theory, released from a laboratory have been proposed, such explanations are not supported by evidence.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01240-24 Conspiracy theory, Conspiracy theories about the virus's origin have also proliferated. SARS-CoV-2 has close Conserved sequence, genetic similarity to multiple previously identified bat coronaviruses, suggesting it crossed over into humans from bats. Research is ongoing as to whether SARS-CoV-2 came directly from bats or indirectly through an intermediate hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
