Congress Launches Probe Of Virologist Who May Have Misled Lawmakers, Intelligence Community On COVID Lab Leak

Congress launches probe of virologist who may have misled lawmakers, intelligence community on COVID lab leak.

A virologist currently being investigated by Congress for providing false information regarding the possibility of a laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2 may have also provided misleading details to the U.S. Intelligence Community.

According to a newly obtained email by U.S. Right to Know, Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., a virologist at the Scripps Institute, provided assurances to officials from various government agencies during a briefing organized by the U.S. Department of State's intelligence analysts in early 2020.

The briefing, which Andersen participated in, relied on the conclusions presented in a significant letter titled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" published in Nature Medicine, where Andersen served as the lead author.

The revelation that Andersen advised the intelligence community at a critical moment on the origins of COVID-19 comes on the heels of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence summary of certain intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a coronavirus lab at the pandemic's epicenter.

The emails also exposed an emergency confidential call involving Andersen, fellow virologists, and leaders of the National Institutes of Health, who publicly dismissed the possibility of a lab leak hypothesis despite their involvement in funding advanced coronavirus research in Wuhan.

"Now, new evidence indicates Andersen may have similarly briefed intelligence analysts and influenced the State Department," U.S. Right to Know reported. 

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