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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.   
      
   https://www.businessinsider.com/3-wuhan-lab-workers-hospitalized-   
   fall-2019-coronavirus-covid-origin-2021-5   
          
      
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