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- Republican Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus, saying it may have originated in a "super-laboratory."
- At a Senate hearing with US military leaders on Thursday, Cotton said the coronavirus was "worse than Chernobyl."
- Cotton qualified his remarks by saying "we still don't know where" the virus originated, but his comments come amid numerous conspiracy theories on its origins — including one alleging the virus "originated in lab linked to China's biowarfare program."
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus that has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,400 others, saying it may have originated from a "super-laboratory."
At a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing with US military leaders on Thursday, Cotton described the coronavirus as the "biggest and most important story in the world" and "worse than Chernobyl."
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