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happymellon • yesterday at 6:28 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

So it's not improbable research lab that was testing off runs from a wet market found the stuff they were searching for?


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adammarples • yesterday at 10:11 AM

The Wuhan institute was the world leader in bat coronavirus research. They were not studying random animals from their local wet market, they were studying bats with coronavirus which they shipped in from the only location in the world where they could be found, thousands of miles away. Then, coincidentally, coronavirus broke out in Wuhan.