3 Wuhan lab workers were sick enough to be hospitalized in November 2019, triggering calls to reconsider theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab: WSJ

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There are new calls to reevaluate whether or not COVID-19 began
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology after US intelligence learned
three doctors became sick with symptoms similar to those of
COVID-19 in November 2019 and sought out hospital care, the Wall
Street Journal reported.

A report from the State Department was issued during the last
days of former President Donald Trump's administration but
officials familiar with the report did not agree on the strength
of the evidence found, the Journal reported.

In March, Marion Koopmans, a dutch virologist, told NBC News the
illness of lab workers could be attributed to regular seasonal
illnesses.

Earlier this year, a team from the World Health Organization
spent a month in Wuhan investigating the origin of the virus and
concluded that the virus most likely jumped from bats to people.

The group said a lab leak was "extremely unlikely."

The WHO said it also did not have access to all the necessary
information. That lack of information has prompted some experts
to be wary of the findings and demand more investigations into
the virus's origin, including the possibility that it in fact
was leaked from a lab.

November 2019 is also in line with when experts believe COVID-19
began circulating.

China has consistently denied that the coronavirus escaped from
a lab. The lab, however, hasn't released raw data or records on
its work with coronaviruses in bats.

A spokeswoman for the National Security Council told the Journal
that the Biden administration still has questions on the origin
of the virus but plausible theories should be investigated by
WHO.

"We're not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing
WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2," the spokeswoman said.
"As a matter of policy we never comment on intelligence issues."

On Monday, the director of the institute's Wuhan National
Biosafety Laboratory, Yuan Zhiming, told Chinese state media,
the Global Times, that the Journal's report was "a complete lie."

"Those claims are groundless. The lab has not been aware of this
situation [sick researchers in autumn 2019], and I don't even
know where such information came from," Zhiming said.

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