State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab

> “The idea that it was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side,” the official said.

> As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government’s original story — that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan — is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn’t sell bats.

Clearly that they didn't sell bats doesn't preclude intermediary species infected through bats, but the lab accident story is looking more plausible as time goes on.

I'm disappointed that this didn't end up getting more attention on HN. It seems like a rather important bit of news.