Good point. Thanks for the reply!

In addition to malice, there's also speculation that this most recent pathogen resulted from carelessness or incompetence at a biomed research facility near Wuhan. Again, impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I'm not drawing any conclusions, but it does seem plausible.

I have another article on a different topic that involves China in tomorrow's post. I don't go looking for articles about China, but I was just thinking this morning that it's surprising to realize how often China comes up in this series. In STEM, it seems that all roads lead to China.