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EXPLAINER: The US investigation into COVID-19 origins

by Nomaan MerchantChristina Larson
| June 8, 2021 9:33 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a new U.S. investigation.

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