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House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic

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A Republican -led House committee releases its final report on Covid-19 pandemic and its effects in the US .

It concludes that the coronavirus “most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan , China ,” the report says.

Most US intelligence agencies say the virus was not genetically engineered, but it is still not totally clear how the pandemic started.

WHO has established a panel to draft provisions aimed at strengthening framework for future pandemics.

The report points to weaknesses in the Strategic National Stockpile and the US supply chain.

It recommends that states have their own stockpiles of emergency medical supplies.

It also encourages increased domestic manufacturing, especially of medications.

Health officials are further criticized in the report for spreading misinformation, especially on the lab-leak origin theory.