Lab Leak ‘Only Explanation’ for COVID-19: Former Intelligence Director

Nominee John L. Ratcliffe sits during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 5, 2020. Gabriella Demczuk-Pool/Getty Images

A laboratory leak is the only COVID-19 origin theory supported by evidence, a former intelligence official testified on April 18.

“A lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense,” John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence during the latter portion of the Trump administration, told a congressional committee in Washington.