U.S.-China Tensions Cloud Virus Origins.

The author points out that the efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and its early spread have been clouded by inaction, politics and self-interest from both China and the U.S. Topics covered include the tweet of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton regarding several hypotheses on how the virus might have originated, how China blamed the U.S. for the disease and the U.S. intelligence officials' dismissal that the virus was manmade or genetically modified.