What you need to know from Wednesday’s White House coronavirus briefing

President Trump’s Wednesday White House coronavirus briefing contained the usual amount of blame-casting, jabs at the media and gripes at Trump’s political opponents. But there was also some news. Here’s what you need to know from that briefing.

1. Trump did not deny emerging reporting that the virus emanated from a Chinese lab

Trump was asked about this by Fox News’s John Roberts, who cited “multiple sources” saying the U.S. government has a high degree of confidence that the virus came from a virology lab in Wuhan. Lax safety protocols infected an intern, Roberts said according to Fox’s reporting, “who later infected her boyfriend, and then went to the wet market in Wuhan, where it began to spread.”