[nagrom42]

Can you address the fact that this Nature paper and this article say otherwise? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9.pdf and https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.h...

[cdetrio]

Those papers say the virus is natural and wasn't engineered by humans. The OP link is about the theory that origin event is a natural virus escaping from a lab. A wild-type virus specimen obtained from bats in the wild that was being studied in the lab (not engineered or modified in the lab).