The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
Here, let me correct you: you’re wrong. The genome sequence indicates it was from the wild. Mutations would have been acquired upon cultivation in vitro that would have shown up in the genome sequence and that was not the case. The biology doesn’t lie, but people sure do. Just read it for yourself.