US President Joe Biden issued a statement Monday that he has enacted legislation allowing the declassification of documents related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that has emerged in China.
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“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” Biden said.
“My administration will release and release as much information as possible” while respecting “national security,” the president vowed.
Initially backed by the Republican opposition, this text eventually found a massive consensus with Democrats as it passed the House of Representatives unanimously — with a Conservative majority.
This is all the more remarkable given that the pandemic has created particularly deep partisan divisions in the United States, be it on vaccinations or preventive measures, for example.
Federal Police Director Christopher Wray recently said a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, was “very likely” to be the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the US Department of Health and Human Services made a similar hypothesis.
This has prompted the World Health Organization in particular to urge Americans to share their information.
The scientific community remains divided between supporters of the intermediate animal transmission hypothesis and those defending the escape from a laboratory in Wuhan thesis.