*Walter Bloomberg

C.I.A. NOW FAVORS LAB LEAK THEORY TO EXPLAIN COVID’S ORIGINS: NYT The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.