Researchers hospitalized at Wuhan lab in 2019: Report

Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.

The report goes beyond a State Department fact sheet issued during the final days of former President Donald Trump's administration, which said the staffers became sick in autumn 2019 "with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness," the Wall Street Journal reported.

Intelligence officials differed on the degree of evidence supporting the report's credibility, with one unidentified official telling the outlet the claims required further substantiation while another described the...