Further, the authors reported that the market sold raccoon dogs, which are in fact neither raccoons nor dogs but are occasionally lunch in China. Don’t judge. Or do. The Chinese don’t care. And raccoon dogs can be infected with Sars-Cov-2, if you try hard.
Case closed! It was the raccoon dogs. Not the giant lab in Wuhan experimenting with the closest known precursor to Sars-Cov-2. The raccoon dogs!
Never mind that despite looking very hard, China has never been able to find any animal infected with Sars-Cov-2 at the Huanan market - or anywhere else in China.
And never mind that both China and the rest of the world have known for two years that many early cases were linked to the Huanan market. As the MIT Technology Review wrote in that piece a year ago:
The genetic evidence indicates that these cases are a branch of the early outbreak—that the market was a place where its spread was amplified, but not necessarily the starting point. (3/7)
