# A theory I saw about how COVID may have escaped from the Wuhan lab

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> [@EastUmpqua](#):
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> It’s looking more likely covid-19 underwent gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and escaped.

There is absolutely no evidence of gain-of-function research causing the pandemic in the articles you posted. The only proof that the pandemic was caused by gain-of-function research would be if the lab was raided and they found vials of coronavirus stocks, each with successive mutations showing the evolution from the bat viruses they were working with to SARS-CoV-2.

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