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A person gets sick after interacting with bats in the area, and then they talk to their virologist friend who works at the Wuhan Virology Institute and suddenly there are a rash of illnesses.

Do we still get to blame the lab for a leak?

>>unders+(OP)
Except there's no bats in that area. At least not ones with SARS-CoV2.

>>buster+Hp
There are no bats in Wuhan? I find that hard to believe.

There are no discovered bat populations in the Wuhan region with a SARS-COV2 ancestor, that's more likely.

That the only source of bats infected with a SARS-COV2 relative is in the Yunnan province, that's pretty unlikely.

>>unders+GA1
There are three bat species with an identified SARS-CoV2 relative (RaTG13, RmYN02, RshSTT182 and RshSTT200) and none of them are found in Wuhan.

>>buster+L62
Yeah exactly.

> With over 100 species recognised, China has one of the richest bat faunas in the Palaearctic.

You need to prove a negative. You need to prove the bats in Wuhan don't have Covid. More and more bats in Yunnan doesn't do that.