“We don’t have certainty, and there is significant evidence that this came from the laboratory.”
Pompeo renewed his call for global pressure on China to provide more data on the origins of the illness, which has killed more than 250,000 people worldwide and hobbled the global economy.
“The American people remain at risk because we do not know … whether it began in the lab or whether it began someplace else,” he said. The World Health Organization has called Pompeo’s claims “speculative” and the US government’s own top epidemiologist said in an interview this week that all evidence so far “strongly indicates” a natural origin.
President Donald Trump’s administration has repeatedly blamed China and the WHO for the pandemic — which critics say is an attempt to deflect blame for the handling of the coronavirus in the United States, which has suffered by far the world’s highest death toll.
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