Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated that China’s military “ordered scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to experiment with coronaviruses” and some of these “were 96.2% genetically similar to the current COVID-19 virus. And further, some of those scientists working on those similar coronaviruses became sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019.”
Ratcliffe said, “I think what the W.H.O. came out and said yesterday was really disingenuous. Mike Pompeo and I worked very hard to get some of our best intelligence out before we left office a few weeks ago so we could talk about what we knew about China and COVID.
