Nicholas Wade, a leading science writer wades in on the topic of the origins of Covid-19, in a mainstream publication. He is cautious, weighting up all of the arguments, and says that there is no proof as such for either the natural origin or lab escape hypotheses, but a balance of reason favours the lab escape hypothesis. There are genetic arguments against the natural origins hypothesis, and the lab escape explains more as well as the “smoking gun” that the exact type of coronavirus gain of function research was carried at the Wuhan lab.
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/bulletin-atomic-scientists-opens-wuhan-virus-pandoras-box
The internet generates a 403 error whatever site I go to, so readers will need to go there before it is all taken down.