Evening Edition: U.S. Energy Department Says A Lab Leak Likely Caused COVID-19 Pandemic

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The United States Energy Department has changed its mind on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and now says it believes the spread started with a lab leak in China. The Energy Department cited 'new intelligence' the altered their stance but did not go into detail on exactly what that is. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Rik Mehta, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and former consumer safety officer at the FDA, about this opinion turnaround and what we can learn from it. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dana Perino.
0:01.0	I'm Jason Chafetz.
0:02.0	I'm Rachel Campo-Stuffy, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:09.0	Monday, February 27, 2023, I'm Evan Brown.
0:14.0	Did COVID come from a lab?
0:17.0	A new report says some in the U.S. government now believe so.
0:21.0	The revelation means so many experts once dismissed for their views may have been wronged.
0:27.0	Basically, validating what many of our thinking has been is so important to get back to building the integrity of scientific discourse and discussion to make sure all opinions are looked at equally.
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1:03.0	No one has yet to give the American people or the people of the world for that matter.
1:08.0	An explanation as to where COVID-19 the novel coronavirus came from.
1:13.0	More Americans learned of a Chinese city named Wuhan in the past four years.
1:18.0	Then perhaps the past 40 and that a specialized virology lab operated there.
1:23.0	But health officials worldwide from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the World Health Organization insisted the new virus had developed in nature and people contracted it when contacting live animals in a market.
1:36.0	Namely bats and suggestions that it came from Wuhan's lab were either dismissed or not tolerated.
1:44.0	Especially by doctor Anthony Fauci, the long serving head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
1:51.0	I mean, obviously you want openness and cooperation.
1:55.0	One of the ways you can get it is don't be accusatory.
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