CutTheClutter: CIA now revises stance on Covid-19's Wuhan lab origin: abridged 2021 Ep on ‘engineered' virus claims

Last week, the CIA revised its assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, stating that the coronavirus is "more likely" to have emerged from a Chinese lab rather than from animals. However, the agency noted that it had "low confidence" in this conclusion. In Ep 758 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta looked at revelations on the theory that the Covid-19 virus was 'engineered’ at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and why top scientists sought a fresh probe. Originally published on May 17, 2021.Read Nicholas Wade's article here: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/Read Zeynep Tufecki's article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.htmlRead the letter in Science Mag here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1/tab-pdfRead the letter in Lancet here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)30418-9Read the letter in Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9Watch Shekhar Gupta's Walk the Talk with David Baltimore here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8iWMmLOX70