The FBI and the CIA asked a professor at a Louisiana medical school for a chat about his research into the origins of Covid-19.
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Three agents flew to Louisiana to talk to him in person.
The meeting began at 9am and ended at 5pm. I presented my evidence to the agents. They asked the right questions, according to the Guardian.
I told them that there was no way the virus could have been a weapon. There is no evidence that it was a lab leak. I am aware that there are people out there who will always disagree.
Joe Biden ordered US intelligence to investigate how the epidemic began.
In normal circumstances, investigating an emerging infectious disease outbreak is a purely scientific inquiry, as was the case with Mers a decade later. The search for the origin of the Covid pandemic has come in the middle of a global controversy that has mixed public health, domestic politics and international diplomacy.
The west has become distrustful of the Chinese government and Beijing's "wolf warrior" style of aggressive public diplomacy, which has resulted in many western capitals recalibrating their relationship with China.
The Council on Foreign Relations in New York has a senior fellow in global health who says it takes two to tango. Beijing seemed to agree to being the country of origin of the outbreak.
The Huanan seafood market in Wuhan was where the first sars-coV-2 came from. All kinds of wild theories began to pop up from both the US and China after that.