Dr. Ashish Jha's Shift: Why He Now Believes in COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator during the Biden administration, revealed Sunday that he now favors the so-called lab leak theory as the most plausible origin story of the pandemic.

“When I went into the White House [in April 2022], my view was, this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak,” Jha told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Based on information I learned and based on information I have seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak,” he added.