Also READ | Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far"The US Intelligence Community does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially but has coalesced around two likely scenarios: either it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident," it said.Also Read | Joe Biden orders review of Covid-19 origins as lab leak theory debatedIt said that while two elements of the intelligence community "lean toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter -- each with low or moderate confidence -- the majority of elements within the IC do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the.