Biden tasks intelligence community to report on Covid origins in 90 days
By Kate Sullivan, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly President Joe Biden said Wednesday he has directed the US intelligence community to redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days. The announcement comes after a US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized — a new detail that fueled fresh public pressure on Biden to delve deeper into the origin of the virus. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry