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Survey 2023. A Chinese lab mapped the COVID-19 virus two weeks before Beijing told the world.

And cancer deaths in the US have fallen,

but doctors see many types of the disease on the rise.

They are seeing younger patients coming in

that are, you know, eating well and exercising.

And so while that's probably part of it and

obesity rays are probably part of it as well that doesn't explain all of what

we're seeing. Plus US consumers started the new year strong.

It's Wednesday, January 17th.

I'm Anne Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

We're exclusively reporting that Chinese researchers isolated and mapped the virus that causes

COVID-19 in late December of 2019, at least two weeks before Beijing revealed the details

of the deadly virus to the rest of the world.

That's according to congressional investigators.

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