The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely

a potential lab incident in Wuhan.

We step back for a second.

The FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc.

who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel

viruses like COVID, and the concerns that in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile

nation state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose.

So here you're talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government controlled lab

that killed millions of Americans.

And that's precisely what that capability was designed for.

I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of

details I can share that aren't classified.

I will just make the observation that the Chinese government seems to me has been doing

its best to try to thwart an obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work

that our US government and close foreign partners are doing, and that's unfortunate for

everybody.

On this episode of Nuts World, there have been 1.1 million deaths in the US due to the COVID-19

pandemic, and 6.8 million COVID deaths globally.

But what were the origins of this novel coronavirus that had jumped from animal to human, as many

epidemiologists who study coronavirus to suspect, or was it released from the Wuhan Institute

of Virology in Wuhan, China?

The debate about where COVID originated has been going on for several years, but just

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