> If this came from an institute for virology, that must be the WORST of its kind of all times. Not really. SARS escaped from laboratories (at least) 3 times.

> If this came from an institute for virology, that must be the WORST of its kind of all times. Not really. SARS escaped from laboratories (at least) 3 times. Once in Singapore, twice in Beijing. SARS doesn't have the long asymptomatic but still contagious period that SARS-CoV-2 has, so the lab escapes were much easier to contain before they spread widely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome#Laboratory_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...