NBC News, January 2025: reprints a CIA statement that it now judges, with low confidence, that a research-related origin of COVID-19 is more likely than a natural one. Both remain plausible. A news copy, not an official CIA page.
CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting.
NBC News, January 2025: reprints a CIA statement that it now judges, with low confidence, that a research-related origin of COVID-19 is more likely than a natural one. Both remain plausible. A news copy, not an official CIA page.