New Study Shows Nearly 70 Percent Probability That COVID Leaked From Wuhan Lab

Researchers claimed that no animals were identified as the ‘natural or intermediary host of the virus’ unlike earlier reports.

The P4 laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on May 13, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

The COVID-19 virus had an “unnatural” origin, with a high probability that it came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a recent study concluded.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Risk Analysis on March 15, used a risk analysis tool to determine the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The analysis found a 68 percent likelihood of an “unnatural than natural origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Although the study did not definitely prove the origin of the COVID-19 virus, its authors stressed that “the possibility of a laboratory origin cannot be easily dismissed.”