Slack messages released by Rand Paul appear to show authors of key COVID-19 origin paper held private doubts

Slack messages released by Rand Paul reveal private doubts among authors of a key 2020 paper on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, contradicting their public assertion that the virus did not originate in a lab. The authors, including Kristian Andersen and Eddie Holmes, privately assigned probabilities to a lab origin, while coordinating with U.S. intelligence and NIH as they defended their public conclusions.