Coronavirus origin conspiracy theories turn murkier; now China thinks virus came ftom US lab in Maryland
The Chinese reports promoting this theory call for an international probe into Fort Detrick, a US military facility in Maryland that conducts research on infectious diseases, and say the lab was temporarily shut in 2019 after a regulatory inspection. The justification that infrastructure issues and wastewater decontamination prompted the closure is not persuasive enough, the theory concludes.