From what I can see this is the single highest grade viral research facility in the whole of china. There isn’t another with the same status.

Surprised this didn't get more upvotes! This is a crazy coincidence.

So the bizarre animal market may just be a fall guy and a deadly pathogen escaped containment?

The article is updated now:

> Editors’ note, January 2020: Many stories have promoted an unverified theory that the Wuhan lab discussed in this article played a role in the coronavirus outbreak that began in December 2019. Nature knows of no evidence that this is true; scientists believe the most likely source of the coronavirus to be an animal market.

2017

Its being shared to imply a link between the facility and the outbreak.

Relevant quotes: "Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping,..." and "Future plans include studying the pathogen that causes SARS..."

Yes, but for that I think the fact that this article is from 2017 highlights this. I thought at first "huh, why would that be a good place for such a lab now" before I checked the article's dating.