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@Abba unless I have comprehension issues there's nothing in this article you've provided as a link saying that investigations by American intelligence agencies have just commenced.
My knowledge of how intell organs work is that they started investigating as soon as the magnitude of the problem came out in the open. This article says they have not even settled on a theory although I can assure you the credibility of every rumour and conspiracy theory is being tested.
U.S. intelligence community still investigating origins of COVID-19 outbreak, including whether it was a lab accident
BY OLIVIA GAZIS
APRIL 16, 2020 / 7:16 PM / CBS NEWS
The U.S. intelligence community has not ruled out the possibility that the novel coronavirus was inadvertently introduced to a human carrier or released into the broader environment by a research laboratory, rather than a wet market, in Wuhan, China. Neither scenario has been deemed more or less plausible, though the notion that the virus itself was human-engineered has been effectively dismissed, officials said.
"We are actively and vigorously tracking down every piece of information we get on this topic and we are writing frequently to update policymakers," a U.S. intelligence official said. "The [intelligence community] has not come down on any one theory."
"It would be normal practice for the IC to be focused on this issue and to take some time to come to a conclusion," said Michael Morell, former CIA deputy director and CBS News senior national security contributor.
Public health authorities in China first linked the disease to a wet market in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, called the Huanan Seafood Wholesale market. But according to a February article published by a group of Chinese researchers in
the Lancet, a top medical journal, the first known patient with the virus did not have direct exposure to the seafood market; nor did 13 of 41 patients first hospitalized with the virus.
"As far as it's understood, this was a one-time episode where an animal in nature - or even a bat in nature, because this virus is very close to viruses in bats - infected a human and that human then infected others," WHO adviser and noted epidemiologist Dr. David Heymann said in
an interview with Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation last month. "And there was some mass event in the city of Wuhan where many, many different people were infected at the same time and sent off chains of transmission among their contacts that travelled internationally and also within China."