The Sloppiness of the Chinese Papers

There was an edict went out in January, no publication of any scientific speculation or data without the say-so of the regime. So yes, these pangolin papers were approved if not actually promoted. Several of us have looked hard at this pangolin data and we're not convinced that a pangolin ever had a virus. And it's possible that we're talking about a case of contamination of a sequencing machine by a bat virus that was then attributed to the pangolins. It could be something as simple as that. You get contamination of sequencing machines. It's very difficult to avoid.