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Newsweek: Scientists shouldn’t rule out lab as source of coronavirus, study says

By Newsweek.

Published May 18, 2020 at 3:37 am

In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, an engineer looks through a microscope at monkey kidney cells as he checks tests on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing.

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A new scientific analysis of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has argued that scientists should not rule out the possibility that the virus originated in a laboratory setting, no matter how likely or unlikely that could be. While U.S. officials and intelligence agencies have held out the possibility of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China has dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory.