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by kukkeliskuu 503 days ago
Doesn't the same difficulty of finding the first case also apply to the wet market theory?
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Indeed, so it could be some unidentified third place. There are few labs and many other possibilities for people to come into contact with animals, so that third place was probably not a lab.
Yep.

My prior is that it is a zoonotic spillover event. Not necessarily that one, though there is some good evidence for it.