Pandemic May Have Been Caused by Bioweapon Research Accident in China: Former State Department Investigator

A woman wearing a mask sits on her bicycle at a red light on a nearly empty street in Beijing on March 22, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a bioweapon leak in China, according to David Asher, former lead COVID-19 investigator at the U.S. State Department.

“This might have been a weapons vector gone awry; not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked,” Asher said on March 12 during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute.