Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015) n nature.com 56 midef 5 years ago 8 comments
The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be far-fetched n nypost.com 22 midef 5 years ago 8 comments
Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation.
On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/