It's not at all a coincidence that there's a lab there. George W. Bush started an anti-pandemic project called PREDICT whose purpose was to collect specimens fr

It's not at all a coincidence that there's a lab there. George W. Bush started an anti-pandemic project called PREDICT whose purpose was to collect specimens from bats and other mammals to identify ones that could transfer from bats to humans[1]. They trained and supported the lab in Wuhan. To me if you're looking for zoonotic transfer, one of the most likely places to look is someplace that's actively out there collecting viruses that are zoonotically transferrable. I still think the program would have been worthwhile even if it did leak the coronavirus. If China thinks the same, I can see why they would try to prevent a backlash against studying viruses. [1]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-trump-pandemic-program-viruses-detection?referringSource=articleShare https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus...