We had this in the headlines a couple days ago but it’s worth looking at in more detail.
Back in April 2023, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a congressional hearing in which they took testimony from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe was asked about claims that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick and were hospitalized near the time of the initial outbreak. His response didn’t offer any inside information but he did suggest that there was an easy way for China to disprove the lab leak theory and its connection to those illnesses, one which China had not taken.
“There has been public reporting about intelligence that those researchers became patients and were hospitalized,” he said. He continued, “Without confirming the accuracy of…
