>evidence includes the fact that the earliest confirmed cases clustered around the seafood market
That's a debatable point. Michael Worobey produced a paper appearing to show that but that was based on case data effectively supplied by the Chinese government who seem to have gone to some lengths to avoid implicating their labs.
There is another dataset of people who called a helpline early on with covid symptoms and that shows them clustered on the other side of the river away from the market and towards the WIV lab.
So if you are going with trust the government stuff then the cases are clustered around the market. If you don't trust said government then they are clustered towards the lab.
It's an interesting question if the government data is genuine why they show different epicenters.
That's a debatable point. Michael Worobey produced a paper appearing to show that but that was based on case data effectively supplied by the Chinese government who seem to have gone to some lengths to avoid implicating their labs.
There is another dataset of people who called a helpline early on with covid symptoms and that shows them clustered on the other side of the river away from the market and towards the WIV lab.
So if you are going with trust the government stuff then the cases are clustered around the market. If you don't trust said government then they are clustered towards the lab.
It's an interesting question if the government data is genuine why they show different epicenters.