THE SCRAMBLED POLITICS OF THE PANDEMIC: “Senate Democrats lined up alongside Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.), one of their least-favorite Republicans, to support a measure urging the Biden administration to declassify intelligence on whether the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab,” our colleagues Annie Linskey, Shane Harris and David Willman report. “A Democratic-led House subcommittee is pledging an investigation into the virus’s origins, including the lab’s safety record.”