China has not been terribly open about this thing throughout.<p>Also some western scientists with the public "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible" and private "the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario."<p>(<a href="https://www.racket.news/p/so-friggin-likely-new-covid-documents" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.racket.news/p/so-friggin-likely-new-covid-docume...</a> etc)