The Trump administration tried hard to prove the COVID-19 Wuhan lab-leak theory, came up short


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2:20 AM Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration launched several separate investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and former President Donald Trump and other senior officials pressed hard for evidence the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Politico and The Washington Post reported Tuesday . But nobody was able to find more than inconclusive and circumstantial evidence . President Biden ordered a new 90-day review of the intelligence last month. By Feb. 1, 2020, the U.S. government's top scientists and medical experts had determined China did not engineer the new coronavirus, National Institutes of Health Director...