Where Did The Coronavirus Come From?

Brut India

The "Wuhan lab-leak" theory about the coronavirus's origin was once spouted mostly by conspiracy theorists. But over the past few months, it is being taken more seriously. Here's how that happened.

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00:00And what gives you a high degree of confidence that this originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

00:05I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that.

00:08Because we don't know 100% what the origin is, it's imperative that we look and we do an investigation.

00:30Wuhan also has China's only biosafety level four super laboratory that works with the

00:50world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.

01:00Is there a possibility that the virus was released by an accident from the Wuhan

01:26Institute of Virology laboratory?

01:28What we can know now is that this virus originated from nature, not man-made.

01:58So

02:20are you suggesting that maybe you have some evidence that this was not a naturally occurring

02:26virus? We're going to see where it is. We're going to see where it comes from.

02:30And you know, look, you know, every theory.

03:56So

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