[wbg34]

How many of those 1 to 7 million people live near the lab? The reason the lab escape theory has gained so much traction is that the lab is a few blocks from the reported ground zero for this outbreak.

Of course that doesn't mean that the infection of patient zero happened inside the lab. If I remember correctly, then the researcher, that some have theorized to be patient zero, had recently returned from a field study. So, it's just as likely that they were infected in the field and brought it back with them. The important part is that the infection then spread from the lab and not from the wet market.

[jml7c5]

>[...] the lab is a few blocks from the reported ground zero for this outbreak.

The Wuhan Institute for Virology (BSL-4 lab) is actually 13 km away. People mixed it up with the unrelated Wuhan Center for Disease Control (BSL-2 lab).

[wbg34]

Thank you. I wasn't aware of that.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Does that change anything, if workers from the lab frequent that market, because it's a popular central location to go to shop, eat, meet, whatever, while sloppy safety practices led to at least one of them being infected, and sneeze or cough while wandering around?