Well, if someone screwed up royally, I would expect them to duck for whatever cover they could find. If there is a human component in the propagation of the virus, I'd be very, very much surprised if anyone would own up to contributing to that, given the subsequent world-wide pandemic.
If there is in fact an accidental human component in the propagation, then we should be doing everything possible to prevent such an accident from recurring, but the desire to place blame works in direct opposition to identifying such a component.
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Everyone can have an opinion. But, what that story suggests is that there is evidence to support a range of possibilities. The real answer, which is frequently the answer, is that we don't know.
We can guess, but guesses often reveal our biases.
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"Thus, 10 of these hospitals’ 19 earliest COVID-19 cases were linked to Huanan Market (~53%), comparable both to Jinyintan’s 66% (of 41 cases) (4) and to the WHO-China report’s 33% of 168 retrospectively identified cases across December 2019 (1). Regarding cases at the Wuhan Central Hospital and HPHICWM, patients with a history of exposure at Huanan Market could not have been “cherry picked” before anyone had identified the market as an epidemiologic risk factor. Hence, there was a genuine preponderance of early COVID-19 cases associated with Huanan Market."
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