# New information suggests a laboratory accident that might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic

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**Created:** [March 16, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672 "2025-03-16T17:58:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672/41 "2025-04-24T01:33:32Z")

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> [@asterion](#):
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> The insistence very early on that a lab leak wasn’t possible and to even consider it was also somehow racist was a mistake.

That’s not at all how I remember it. Unlikely that it was a lab leak, sure, but not impossible. Do you have examples?

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