If SARS-Cov-2 was from a lab, what about the original SARS?
Generally though, China is somewhat better suited to producing pandemics, because they have a larger and more dense population within which a disease can spread.
Generally though, China is somewhat better suited to producing pandemics, because they have a larger and more dense population within which a disease can spread.
Interestingly it was also clearly airborne and able to spread long distances in aerosols moved by air currents. Investigators traced those air flows in some cases to explain movements of the virus. Yet despite being literally called SARS-2 the WHO and other self-declared sources of expertise all denied that this was possible, and attacked people who pointed out that it was. The desire for lockdowns and masks to be perceived as credible outweighed prior experience with similar viruses, turning those who tried to learn from history into pariahs.
And MERS. It’s not like coronaviruses causing epidemics were very surprising at the time.