Lawmakers and Scientists Call for More Answers After House Hearing on COVID Origin

Lawmakers and medical experts are calling for continued scrutiny into the origins of COVID-19 following a Wednesday hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
During the Wednesday hearing, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield; Dr. Jamie Metzl, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; author and journalist Nicholas Wade; and Dr. Paul Auwaerter, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shared their analyses of the competing theories that COVID-19 was the result of a natural outbreak or that it was the result of a laboratory leak.
Redfield described the lab leak theory as the more likely scenario. Auwaerter testified that U.S. government agencies have assessed with “low” to “moderate” confidence that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak, while “many virologists believe compelling evidence points to an animal origin,” and said “making claims that cannot be supported sufficiently by available data fuels confusion and mistrust.”…}