American intelligence officials tell the Wall Street Journal that a Wuhan virologist whose research into coronaviruses was funded by the US government became sick with an unspecified illness in November 2019 that might’ve just kind have been COVID-19, but nobody’s sure.
Ben Hu, who survived and is still living today, worked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology – specifically on whether certain naturally occurring coronaviruses could spread from bats to humans and was the subject of US intel research into the origins of the virus. But you know some people still really love that “raccoon dogs in the wet market” theory and are hanging on tight to it.