Comment by Robert Garcia

And I want to just remind us, the scientific consensus on this point is very clear, which is that we do not have any conclusive evidence to determine whether COVID sprung from an accidental lab leak or some animal spillover. [...] Now, I want to remind you and as well as the public that our own Federal agencies, of course, share this exact lack of confidence, what one determining origin actually is, and we actually have multiple different perspectives from our agencies. So, our press reports, as we all know--we have five intelligence agencies that believe in animal spillover with low confidence. The FBI thinks with moderate confidence, and the Department of Energy with low confidence, in a lab leak, and the CIA just doesn't know. So, from a Federal agency perspective, there is no conclusive evidence that we have actually made.