[LorenPechtel]

I don't think you're in tinfoil hat territory here at all. While it wouldn't be anything amazing for a BL-4 lab to quickly identify that it's novel what is amazing is that the samples would get sent to the lab that fast in the first place. Zebras, not horses! That's going to take the frontline docs realizing that they're dealing with something novel. (This is not at all the same thing as the CDC jumping in very quickly when Ebola landed in the US--that wasn't novel.)

Now, I don't think it would have been a weapon. China isn't so stupid as to try to weaponize a coronavirus. However, it does make sense that this might be a leak from studying it. The genetic study really only shows when the population was one, not where it came from.