Four federal agencies consider lab-leak hypothesis for COVID origin, one ranks it "low confidence" spurring WSJ headline

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And there was no reason to keep any work on a SARS-CoV-2 ancestor secret before the pandemic*

I've seen a billion people who work in the field say that no conclusion will occur until China cooperates with scientists outside China. I don't think that means they are hiding anything necessarily, but even if they haven't destroyed stuff, they've not been cooperative, at least as I understand it.