The "Wuhan lab-leak" theory about the coronavirus's origin was once spouted mostly by conspiracy theorists. But over the past few months, it is being taken more seriously. Here's how that happened.
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00:00And what gives you a high degree of confidence that this originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
00:05I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that.
00:08Because we don't know 100% what the origin is, it's imperative that we look and we do an investigation.
00:30Wuhan also has China's only biosafety level four super laboratory that works with the
00:50world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.
01:00Is there a possibility that the virus was released by an accident from the Wuhan
01:26Institute of Virology laboratory?
01:28What we can know now is that this virus originated from nature, not man-made.
01:58So
02:20are you suggesting that maybe you have some evidence that this was not a naturally occurring
02:26virus? We're going to see where it is. We're going to see where it comes from.
02:30And you know, look, you know, every theory.
03:56So