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U.S. national-security official and White House National Security Council spokesperson.
There is not a consensus right now in the U.S. government about exactly how COVID started.
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John Kirby, White House press briefing, quoted in Amy Gunia, “Did COVID Originally Leak From a Chinese Lab? Politics May Prevent Us Ever Knowing for Sure,” TIME, March 2023.
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Disputed Authentic statement, but it was delivered at the White House briefing on 27 Feb 2023; correct date: 2023-02-27 (day), not March 2023. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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