> Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.

The bat virus they were doing gain-of-function research on at the Wuhan Lab came from miles away.

"Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...