Biden's lack of interest in investigating the origins of COVID-19 is troubling

President Joe Biden is right to resume the Trump administration's investigation into the possibility the novel coronavirus escaped from a Chinese laboratory. It is a welcome shift from his earlier partisanship-addled refusal, but the process it took to reach this decision is not one that inspires confidence.

Biden said he has asked the intelligence community to “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” on the origins of the coronavirus and report back to him in 90 days.

This is welcome news. The circumstantial evidence has long pointed to the possibility the virus behind our recent plague escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The theory has been reinforced by the Wall Street Journal report detailing previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence about researchers at the lab who became seriously ill in November 2019.