SLOBODIAN: Feds no longer completely dismiss China’s COVID-19 role as conspiracies theory

The federal government is finally, albeit tepidly, open to the possibility that COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab in China. This comes three years after former health minister Patricia Hajdu mocked concerns about China’s transparency regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) as “conspiracy theories.”

Between then and now, a growing chorus of global voices have either claimed COVID-19 leaked from the WIV or announced they no longer completely dismissed the possibility.