{"id":52994,"date":"2023-02-28T02:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/27\/how-seriously-should-we-take-the-us-does-covid-lab-leak-theory"},"modified":"2023-02-28T02:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:24:37","slug":"how-seriously-should-we-take-the-us-does-covid-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52994","title":{"rendered":"How seriously should we take the US DoE\u2019s Covid lab leak theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Energy\u2019s updated report on origins of coronavirus pandemic jars with most scientists\u2019 assessments<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, an updated and classified 2021 US energy department report has concluded that the coronavirus behind the recent pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department\">most likely emerged from a laboratory leak<\/a> but not as part of a weapons programme.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/27\/how-seriously-should-we-take-the-us-does-covid-lab-leak-theory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Energy\u2019s updated report on origins of coronavirus pandemic jars with most scientists\u2019 assessmentsAccording to the Wall Street Journal, an updated and classified 2021 US energy department report has concluded that the coronavirus behind th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1066,914,512,916,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions\/52995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}