Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Long before President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, and their echo chambers sought a Chinese scapegoat for the president’s gross and willful incompetence, researchers understood that the possibility the COVID-19 pathogen escaped from a Chinese research laboratory was plausible, if unproven. The possibility a lab escape is behind the coronavirus pandemic is most definitely not “a conspiracy theory.”