Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sparred with reporters Wednesday, insisting questions remain over whether the novel coronavirus pandemic came from a Chinese lab, despite pushback from senior intelligence officials and health experts.
“Barbara, Barbara, let me just, let me just put this to bed. Your efforts to try and find — just to spend your whole life trying to drive a little wedge between senior American officials… it’s just false,” Pompeo said in response to a question by BBC reporter Barbara Plett Usher about the intelligence over the origins of the virus.
Pompeo has pushed the theory that the first cases of the novel coronavirus could have come from a scientist exposed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, part of efforts to demand Beijing allow international experts to investigate the outbreak as well as take responsibility for the global pandemic.
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