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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. The work is still ongoing. There hasn't been a final conclusion arrived at here.
AI Verified (Feb 28, 2023)
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Chad de Guzman, “Did COVID Originally Leak From a Chinese Lab? Politics May Prevent Us Ever Knowing for Sure,” Time, February 28, 2023.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Kirby says government had reached no conclusion on COVID’s origin, directly supporting an abstention on the claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Kirby says government had no conclusion or consensus on origin, an abstention. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified TIME report and contemporaneous transcript attribute this wording to John Kirby. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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