In a statement announcing his request for additional follow-up and analysis, President Biden said the agencies had not reached a definitive conclusion on the question of COVID-19's origin. Their current position, he wrote, quoting from the report, was that “while two elements in the IC [intelligence community] leans toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter – each with low or moderate confidence – the majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other.”