The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization. Here, we explain how the withdrawal would work and what it would mean,

Founded in 2023, PHTI is an offshoot of the nonprofit Peterson Center on Healthcare, which aims to lower health care costs. It was founded by Peter G. Peterson, the late billionaire and former secretary of commerce for President Richard Nixon. PHTI helps health systems evaluate their technology to reduce health care spending.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

In a fresh analysis, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believes that the Covid-19 virus ‘more likely’ leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals. The US intelligence agency has released the ’low confidence’ assessment under Trump-appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe,

Just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.

The first discoveries of people infected with the COVID-19 virus were in Wuhan. Five years after the initial lockdown was imposed, the Chinese city has not yet recovered from the crisis.

China on Monday dismissed the lab leak theory on COVID-19 origins proposed by the CIA, calling it baseless and emphasizing the need for scientific investigation, state media reported.

World: Covid-19 origin theory, Donald Trump's pick, John Ratcliffe, the new CIA chief, has been a long-time supporter of the lab leak theory.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.