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Comment by Brett Giroir

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Physician and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Although we do not yet have indisputable evidence pinpointing the exact origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, I assess that the most likely origin was an accidental infection of laboratory personnel from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with secondary transmission to the local population, and subsequent spread to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Brett P. Giroir, testimony to the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, June 27, 2021.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Quote explicitly assesses accidental Wuhan laboratory infection as the most likely origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Verified against the cited source; wording, attribution, and date match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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