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Comment by Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

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U.S. House subcommittee that investigated the COVID-19 pandemic and issued a 2024 final report
COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. [...] A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19.
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Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, "FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward," U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, December 2, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified The quote is explicitly about the origin question in the complete statement, and the source page presents it as the report’s finding that COVID-19 most likely came from a lab-related incident rather than natural spillover. That makes a determinate stance on the complete statement clear. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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AI Verified The source explicitly supports the statement: it says COVID-19 "most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China" and that "a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19," which favors lab origin over natural spillover. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago

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AI Verified The official House Oversight press release published Dec. 2, 2024 contains both exact sentences verbatim—COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. and A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19.—with only intervening text omitted by [...]. The same site also lists After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward as a Dec. 2, 2024 report of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which supports the attribution and date. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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