Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says

i think you're wrong but i upvoted you anyway cuz i appreciate the alternate point of view (here, anyway...it's a mainstream view otherwise)

the reason why early cases clustered around the Wuhan wet markets is because they were only allowed to test for COVID in a sick person if the person reported ties to the Wuhan wet market in some way.

to control for that factor, other reports have tried to use general hospitalizations to show that the hospitals around the seafood market showed an increase in patients regardless of whether they were tested for covid or not. BUT if you actually look at where the main hospitals in Wuhan are, they're clustered near the wet market to begin with...the hospitals aren't equally distributed around the city and mysteriously the ones by the wet market were full and the ones elsewhere weren't. they are near the wet market and even that alone could have brought sickness to the area, which easily becomes pinned to the wet market when you only allow COVID to be diagnosed in people who visited it and don't allow it to be tested for in anyone who didn't.

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