Covid 'lab leak theory': What we've learned

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8. No one will ever be able to reject it entirely

but it has to be remembered that China was the first victim of it. A Frankenvirus developed to infect the rest of the world and released would have been released a little more strategically than sickening hundreds of people who had contact with a wet market in Wuhan and killing many of them along with the health care workers who cared for them.

Personally, I think the virus was most likely SARS Cov-1 (with which Covid shared 80% of its DNA) that had been circulating around below the radar and mutating for 8 years, becoming more transmissible and less lethal.

The lab in Wuhan had been cited by the WHO for sloppy containment, so who knows?

I don't think any of us ever will. Virologists knew coronavirus was on the move and that the human population was due for a nasty one, the original SARS and MERS viruses being proof of that.