Former MI6 director says coronavirus is an ‘accident’ from a Chinese lab

[Chris Smith]

• Researchers have penned two new studies that say the novel coronavirus was created in a lab in Wuhan, China. They claim that the virus received key components there that made it more dangerous.
• The researchers say although the virus was man-made in the lab, it was released accidentally.
• A former MI6 director agrees with the findings of these controversial studies, which have been met with plenty of resistance from the scientific community.
• Only one of the two studies has been published after undergoing significant edits to remove explicit accusations against China.

More than five months have passed since the novel coronavirus health crisis began, or maybe even more than that according to new evidence that keeps coming up. But we still have no idea of how it all started. The scientific consensus is that SARS-CoV-2 wasn't bioengineered, and top US intelligence officials agree with that take. But wild conspiracy theories still say COVID-19 is a man-made disease that serves a specific purpose. Milder versions of those theories say the virus accidentally escaped from a lab.

Meanwhile, China last week started changing the origin story of the novel coronavirus. The virus did not escape from the Wuhan lab, but the pandemic didn't start from the wet market in the city either, as had initially been believed. Where did it start? China wouldn't say.

This brings us to the most startling coronavirus story so far that says the coronavirus started as an "accident" in a laboratory in China. It comes from a former MI6 boss who had access to the COVID-19 study that sparked some controversy behind the scenes. If the findings are real, this is the study that could get us closer to finding out who Patient Zero was. If it's not, it's the kind of tale that might inspire even more wild conspiracy theories that don't do anybody any good.

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