Covid Origin Destined to Be a Forever Secret

On the menu today: Remember the lab-leak theory? A few scientists argue that it is dead, with new studies contending that the global pandemic, which likely killed three to four times the official death-toll numbers, must have started from someone catching the virus from an animal in a wet market. Other science writers say, “Not so fast,” arguing that the lack of cooperation from China and incomplete data make it impossible to rule out any point of origin. But two and a half years after Covid arrived and turned our...