House Intelligence Republicans Point to Wuhan Lab as CCP Virus Origin

Republican lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee said that the CCP virus was more likely to originate from a Chinese lab than from an animal, according to their interim report published on Wednesday. “There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence … to support a lab leak as the origination of COVID-19,” stated the report, which was led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member on the committee. “By contrast, little circumstantial evidence has emerged to support the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] claim that COVID-19 was a natural occurrence, having jumped from some other species to humans,” the report added. COVID-19,…