WASHINGTON - The White House supports an independent investigation into the origin of COVID-19, press secretary Jen Psaki said, after the Wall Street Journal reported three Wuhan lab workers were sick and hospitalized months before the pandemic.The outlet reported the researchers were from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and fell ill in November 2019 according to an undisclosed U.S.
intelligence report obtained by the WSJ. The information provided more specific details than a January 2021 State Department fact sheet, issued under former President Donald Trump."The United States government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with.