A Pentagon report never made public by the Biden administration said that seven U.S. service members came down with COVID-19-type symptoms after the World Military Games held in Wuhan, China, in the fall of 2019, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

The December 2022 report said that the service members exhibited symptoms from October 2019 through January 2020 and that their symptoms resolved within six days. The members were not tested for COVID-19 “given that testing was not available during this early stage of the pandemic.”

China has asserted that COVID-19 began in a wet market in Wuhan in December 2019.

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