Coronavirus from a Wuhan lab, not wet market?

Washington Examiner: 'Increasing confidence' China blamed coronavirus on wet market to deflect from Wuhan lab escape: Report.

There is "increasing confidence" that China blamed a wet market in Wuhan to deflect how the novel coronavirus originated in a nearby government laboratory, according to a new report.

As sources familiar with China's early actions told Fox News, the breach came not as part of an effort to construct a bioweapon, but rather as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to show its abilities to study and fight viruses was comparable to those of the United States.

The unnamed sources were not identified, and it is not immediately clear whether they were intelligence officials or other members of the Trump administration. But Fox News reported they were briefed on China’s initial efforts to cover up the outbreak and had reviewed pertinent documents.

One such source suggested this could be the “costliest government cover-up of all time.”
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Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ted Cruz of Texas, among others, have speculated that the novel coronavirus may have originated from an accidental lab contamination.

A report by Yahoo News on Tuesday cited nine current and former national security officials who confirmed U.S. spy agencies are looking into whether the novel coronavirus started as an inadvertent lab escape.