> If scientists find the origin of the virus we can finally say that it wasn't engineered, currently they have not. No, they have. https://www.sciencemag.org/

> If scientists find the origin of the virus we can finally say that it wasn't engineered, currently they have not. No, they have. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mining-coronavirus-genomes-clues-outbreak-s-origins https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mining-coronavirus-g... ...sequencing, combined with sampling the market’s environment for the presence of the virus, is clarifying that it indeed had an important early role in amplifying the outbreak. The viral sequences, most researchers say, also knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan. Note that the article is dated more than two weeks ago.