After reading this article, it seems that it's much more likely than not that the virus has lab origins. That is crazy, but what's more interesting is how inter

After reading this article, it seems that it's much more likely than not that the virus has lab origins. That is crazy, but what's more interesting is how interconnected all the players in this space are. Trump often referred to the virus as the "Chinese Virus" due to his view that the virus originated from the WIV. While it does appear likely that the virus originated in China, it turns out an NIH-funded U.S. NGO was also highly involved? Also troubling are minor details not really related to the main lab-origin theory presented in this article: > In 2011, two scientists separately announced that they had genetically altered Highly Pathogenic Asian Avian Influenza A (H5N1), the bird flu virus that has killed at least 456 people since 2003. The scientists gave the virus new functions—enabling it to spread efficiently among ferrets, which are genetically closer to humans than mice—as a way to gauge its risks to people. Both studies had received NIH funding. I'm not saying the NIH is directly responsible for these programs, but it seems prudent to cut back on deadly virus creation.