After three years of the Covid-19 pandemic, US intelligence agencies have reevaluated their assessment of the virus’s origin. The Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence conducted a review based on new intelligence, "further study of academic literature, and consultation with experts outside government," according to a senior US intelligence official in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Despite the updated assessment, the source said it was similar to prior information from a House Republican Intelligence Committee report released last year.

Meanwhile, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment and Republicans in Congress have been pushing for further investigations into the lab leak theory, with House Oversight Chairman James Comer citing "classified information provided" by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a request earlier this month.

The Biden administration has asserted that the largest intelligence agencies are still in agreement about the virus's origin