The people on This Week in Virology seemed convinced that the spike protein wasn’t anything that had previously been seen and wasn’t anything a human would design if they were working on creating a new virus.
SARS-Covid-2 doesn’t look at all like a biological weapon. If they were dong experiments on trying to design a novel spike I don’t think they’d do it in such an otherwise dangerous virus.
I can imagine that this virus infected someone in China, was brought to the lab for analysis then escape from the lab into Wuhan but that’s a lot of burdensome details. And my guess is that if they’d had the virus in a lab then the overall response would have looked different but that’s weak evidence.
So overall I’d say it isn’t impossible but I’d give less than 1% odds.
The people on This Week in Virology seemed convinced that the spike protein wasn’t anything that had previously been seen and wasn’t anything a human would design if they were working on creating a new virus.
SARS-Covid-2 doesn’t look at all like a biological weapon. If they were dong experiments on trying to design a novel spike I don’t think they’d do it in such an otherwise dangerous virus.
I can imagine that this virus infected someone in China, was brought to the lab for analysis then escape from the lab into Wuhan but that’s a lot of burdensome details. And my guess is that if they’d had the virus in a lab then the overall response would have looked different but that’s weak evidence.
So overall I’d say it isn’t impossible but I’d give less than 1% odds.