[jjeaff]

I think there is a very big misunderstanding with this. Now, I'm not an expert, like most people commenting on this, but this is my understanding from listening to other experts.

Scientists pretty much agree that this virus was not created in a lab. Howver, that doesn't mean the virus could not have been taken into a lab from the wild and allowed to reproduce under controlled conditions and basically speeding up the evolutionary process to make it more virulent in order to make it easier to study in lab conditions.

This is common practice in lab study and is not possible to tell definitively that it has been done. Because it doesn't involve genetic manipulation per se. It is simply an artificially manipulated environment for the virus to grow in "naturally".

It has been suggested that the propensity of the virus to spread well indoors rather than outside may be due to the fact that it spent time indoors in a lab selecting for that before it escaped back into the wild.