# 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:** 550
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082/550 "2023-03-17T17:49:04Z")
> [@Coronavirus general discussion and chit-chat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903/1854): > > An international team had previously collected samples at the wet market right after it was closed when it was suspected to be the source of the pandemic. This data and hospital data was used by an american team to trace the origins of the first two viral strains back to the huanan wet market. The american researchers that did the genetics and epidemiology suggested that it came from raccoon dogs because they had been to that wet market years earlier and found illegal raccoon dogs in the wester… Here’s the original article that @Telemark posted: [https://www.yahoo.com/news/data-links-pandemic-origins-raccoon-113724388.html?guccounter=1&guce\_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ib2FyZHMuc3RyYWlnaHRkb3BlLmNvbS8&guce\_referrer\_sig=AQAAADmjXJaFSDkDR3aQ40mnQ3YHpDxVUOdonyoiMjVstoEGwNGCTwPhUBlEJ7DQ8hzNjfUoItqwg1\_6kkkmeni0U03reDwIwwhXJjMsCqTIXQJ4PzgWtxamigvOtZYSigbflfiM6q93g\_zJ6UZuNWqePaatmQZrg0wfuMYyfySwMXVB](https://www.yahoo.com/news/data-links-pandemic-origins-raccoon-113724388.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ib2FyZHMuc3RyYWlnaHRkb3BlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADmjXJaFSDkDR3aQ40mnQ3YHpDxVUOdonyoiMjVstoEGwNGCTwPhUBlEJ7DQ8hzNjfUoItqwg1_6kkkmeni0U03reDwIwwhXJjMsCqTIXQJ4PzgWtxamigvOtZYSigbflfiM6q93g_zJ6UZuNWqePaatmQZrg0wfuMYyfySwMXVB) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082)._