# A theory I saw about how COVID may have escaped from the Wuhan lab **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082 "2021-02-17T03:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 418
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082/418 "2022-02-28T18:58:50Z")
One of the authors has posted a twitter thread explaining their findings. > **[Thread by @MichaelWorobey on Thread Reader App](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497607313397481472.html)** > > @MichaelWorobey: We have just released two preprints on the origin of SARS-CoV-2: 1. "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence" zenodo.org/record/6299116… & 2. "SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely re...… If that’s _still_ too long to read, then here is my very brief summation. - Even cases with no known link to the Huanan Market are still geographically centered around the Huanan Market. - The Huanan Market is the geographic epicenter of early cases. - Genetic data suggests lineage B jumped in late November and started to spread, and A jumped a week or two after B. - Positive environmental samples of SARS-CoV-2 were found in the Huanan Market on animal centered surfaces, such as cages. - Cases in the market were nearer to stalls selling live mammals. Here is a picture. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMih-DfUcAIlp_B.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMih-DfUcAIlp_B.jpg) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082)._