re: COVID Lab Leak Theory Resurfaces After Controversial New Study

They’ve already conducted several thousand tests on meat samples from the months and years leading up to both Covid and the SADS outbreak 10 years earlier.

For SARS - frozen meat samples procured months before the first human case eventually tested positive all over China. It clearly came from an animal and evolved in a way that enabled human infection.

For Covid….nothing came up in samples that pre-dated the first known human case. Because it didn’t come from animals. It came from a person in Wuhan and then evolved to also infect animals. We’ll never really know how that first person got it or who that person is….but a lab leak is extremely likely.