A classified intelligence report recently delivered to Congress included the Energy Department's assessment that it is "likely" that Covid-19 first spread after a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, two sources with direct knowledge told NBC News.
That's likely to be a major topic of conversation for the first hearing of the House Oversight Committee's new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Tuesday's roundtable ostensibly will focus on speaking to doctors about policy decisions made during the crisis, but the panel's Republican members are sure to highlight the lab leak theory. Despite their likely enthusiasm, though, the Energy Department assessment is not the smoking gun they've been hunting for the last three years.
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