I guess this meme will never die? It absolutely was not, to the point that Dr. Shi used blood samples from Wuhan as negative controls. The closest known bat vir

I guess this meme will never die? It absolutely was not, to the point that Dr. Shi used blood samples from Wuhan as negative controls. The closest known bat viruses were collected around Yunnan (~900 miles away), and in Southeast Asia. EDIT: And since my comment is downvoted, here's a reference from Dr. Shi herself: > We have done bat virus surveillance in Hubei Province for many years, but have not found that bats in Wuhan or even the wider Hubei Province carry any coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. I don't think the spillover from bats to humans occurred in Wuhan or in Hubei Province. https://web.archive.org/web/20210727042832/https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Shi%20Zhengli%20Q%26A.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210727042832/https://www.scien... No one expected natural spillover near Wuhan. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but the claim that the WIV was situated based on that is unequivocally false.