"Although the coronaviruses known to have been used in the research were too distant to have caused the pandemic,..."<p>Key words, "known to have been used". Given the bad practices of the lab at the WIV, the purposeful obfuscation by major players, and China's history in this, I wouldn't accept that statement lightly from the article.<p>I believe the pandemic originated at the lab based on likelihood over the competing natural origins hypothesis.