The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

A newly declassified report, released by the CIA on Saturday, is once again stoking the debate around the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. The report is not based on any new intelligence and was completed under the agency’s previous leadership at the request of the Biden administration.

The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five years ago.

Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.

It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up killing nearly seven million people. Five years on, and with Donald Trump back in the White House,

Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging