By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 3/20/2023 at 10:31 PM, updated 3/20/2023 at 10:48 PM
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US President Joe Biden. RICHARD PIERRIN / AFP
US President Joe Biden announced in a statement Monday, March 20, that he had enacted legislation allowing the declassification of documents on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic that has emerged in China. “We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure we are better at preventing future pandemics,” Joe Biden said, adding, “My administration will release and release as much information as possible,” however respected ‘national security’.
This text, initially supported by the Republican opposition, ended up being the subject of a massive consensus with the 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.
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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 (WHO) 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.