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The exact origin of COVID-19 and how it spread to humans 

, but President Biden is asking the U.S. intelligence community to “

 for what might have happened, but one of the leading hypotheses is that the virus might have jumped from a bat to another animal before infections spread to humans.

In late March, a team of global scientists working with the World Health Organization 

saying that while a lab leak is possible, they described it as the least likely explanation. 

However, that theory is being re-examined after The 

 reported details from a U.S. intelligence report describing three researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology getting sick in November of 2019. 

Wednesday at 9 a.m., host Kerri Miller spoke with two infectious disease physicians about the importance of understanding the origins of COVID-19 and why it is so difficult to pin down.

Why we still don’t know for sure how COVID-19 started

 is a clinical assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine and treats patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is the founder and CEO of

is an infectious disease physician and associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine.

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President Biden last week asked the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble their efforts” to bring the nation closer to understanding the origin of COVID-19, giving them 90 days to gather information. Two infectious disease physicians discussed why it is important to find the origin of COVID-19 and what we can reasonably expect in that time frame.

President Biden last week asked the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble their efforts” to bring the nation closer to understanding the origin of COVID-19, giving them 90 days to gather information. Two infectious disease physicians discussed why it is important to find the origin of COVID-19 and  what we can reasonably expect in that time frame. 

Can a U.S. intelligence probe unearth the origin of COVID-19?

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