> The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses. The rest is history.

The WIV is 20km from the Huanan market where the pandemic started. The evidence for zoonotic origin with multiple spillover events at the Huanan market is overwhelming.

Here is just one review of the evidence.

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...