{"id":26223,"date":"2023-03-01T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26223"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:49:06","slug":"wsj-news-exclusive-lab-leak-most-likely-origin-of-covid-19-pandemic-energy-department-now-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26223","title":{"rendered":"WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-731640\/social\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"105\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The Energy Department joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\">WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>as article mentions, this is 2nd us agency to state this (1st is FBI, unsure of their level of confidence), although DoE is saying &#8220;low confidence&#8221;.  of course, this is going on as us &amp; china are having a bit of a tiff (china figeter buzzing warship with cnn aboard, just after china spy baloonn thingy, china likely to spuily arms to russia, is still buying russian oil at a nice discount, etc0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>seems too early to know, if we can ever know for certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Department joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,169,638,57],"class_list":["post-26223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-lab-leak","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}