mo4ch:>Pentagon looked ‘hard’ into theory Covid-19 came from Chinese lab, but ‘inconclusive’ evidence still suggests natural origin | Mo4ch News

The US military looked ‘hard’ at rumors the coronavirus came from a laboratory in Wuhan, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters, but the evidence so far is ‘inconclusive’ and pointing to it emerging naturally.“It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that, and we have had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that,” General Mark Milley said at a news briefing on Tuesday. At this point it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we do not know for sure.His top medical officer, Joint Staff Surgeon Brigadier-General Paul Freidrichs, flatly answered“No” when asked the same question last week. While Milley did not name any outlets speculating about the virus’s origins, earlier in the day the Washington Post published an opinion piece that suggested the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been conducting “risky” experiments on bats back in 2018. Columnist Josh Rogin said he obtained correspondence fro…