The most credible version of how the coronavirus was let loose on the world glues together the two apparently contradictory scenarios: a) it came from the Wuhan wet market, or b) it was accidentally released from the nearby virus research lab.
The most likely scenario not getting much airplay is that one of the workers at the lab secretly and illegally took one or more post-experiment animals — perhaps a bat or five — to the wet market to sell.
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