For most of the last year, the assumption that COVID-19 accidentally came from the biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab in Wuhan, China, was seen as a conspiracy theory at best. It didn’t help that the media discredited any part of the idea because Donald Trump and his allies baselessly backed the “lab leak” due to its political ramifications towards pressure on China. Now, the Wall Street Journal has reported that U.S. intelligence officials have found that “3 Wuhan lab workers were sick enough to go to the hospital in November 2019,  bolstering calls to reconsider the coronavirus lab-leak theory.” This is big news because this would have been around the time that experts think the virus would have started circulating in Wuhan. In this episode, Drew and Alex talk about how this revelation may complicate the matter. Drew was more skeptical but is now open to more information, while Alex found the hypothesis to make sense from the beginning, though politics tainted it. Both talk about how this needs to be solved. The world needs to know whether “gain of function research” is beneficial towards fighting a pandemic or if it plays god in making a pandemic worse. Will China ever come clean? Has all evidence been removed? Or did the virus come from a bat?