A previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report revealed that three scientists from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 to seek hospital care, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The illnesses were consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses, but the report fuels speculation that the scientists at the Wuhan lab were among the first to contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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