Emails in the article show that scientists at the National Institutes of Health were considering the possibility of a laboratory origin for the virus, but also discussing alternative explanations such as zoonotic transmission. This is significantly different from the global narrative of the origin of COVID, because people think the virus came from bats and pangolins in China. Specifically, people think someone ate a pangolin which started the spread of the virus. It is likely for scientists to have a significant change of heart in what to leave in and what to leave out in the pursuit of scientific truth. I think scientists considered the possibility of a lab leak, and whether information was suppressed or downplayed for political reasons is very possible. An actual lab leak would have stirred up everything, as it was already a crazy time, it would’ve been even crazier. It seems smarter that the scientists would have left this truth out for the good of the general public.
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