evidence: You have always said that you approached the COVID-19 origin story with an open mind. I will have to admit that in February and March 2020, I dismissed the story that it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. [...] Yeah, lots of lab accidents have happened, but we have to be really careful [with this]. Do laboratory accidents happen and infect people and kill people? Absolutely. There’s no doubt about that. Could the laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through various scenarios have been the spark of this pandemic? Sure, it could have. [But] show me the evidence that a lab leak sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. What it comes down to is sorting through possibilities and probabilities and moving away from theory and moving toward evidence. Over time, evidence naturally accrues for all of these [infectious disease] origin stories. This isn’t my first origin story rodeo. I’ve covered several origin stories in the past and over time we see evidence that supports or doesn’t support different theories. What we’re witnessing over this three-year period of time is theories are starting to give way to evidence. [...] What about the evidence that there was a strain of a bat coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute that was genetically 96% similar to SARS-CoV-2 virus?