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Comment by Erica Pandey

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Axios journalist covering politics and policy news.
The debate over COVID's origins has included two main theories: that it came naturally from a market in Wuhan, China, or that it came from a lab leak there. In a new assessment, the CIA says it's more likely that COVID originated from a lab leak.
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Erica Pandey, "CIA favors COVID lab leak theory," Axios, January 26, 2025.
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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 directly reports the CIA's lab-leak assessment, so it is clearly on-topic for whether COVID-19 came from a lab-related incident rather than natural spillover. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote says the CIA judges a lab leak more likely than natural origin, so the recorded answer `for` matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Axios (Jan. 26, 2025) says the CIA now judges a lab leak more likely than natural origin; the stored wording and attribution to Erica Pandey match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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