You skipped over the second part of my response. I'll point it out again: "Researchers would have to grow the virus in cells in order to stand a real chance of

You skipped over the second part of my response. I'll point it out again: "Researchers would have to grow the virus in cells in order to stand a real chance of infecting people" They were filing patents on designs for bat cages. Videos from inside the WIV before COVID showed live bats. They were doing far more than growing virus in cells, they were growing them in live animals, as virologists typically do. "PCR amplification means that you can find the needle in the haystack and find enough RNA to construct aa genome out of it" This would be relevant if virologists were mere lab technicians running PCR tests, but they aren't.