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310. Viral: The Origin of Covid 19 | Matt Ridley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Origin of COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in 2003 at an exotic meat market near Hong Kong. In May 2020, the Chinese were announcing they didn't think it started in that market. "There's quite a lot of things about this story that make it really quite plausible that what's happened here is an escape from a lab," he says.

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