Signs for various beef, pork and poultry products are displayed at stalls at the Baishazhou wet market in Wuhan. (Source: Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The origin story of Covid-19 remains a mystery mired in contentious geopolitical debate. But a research paper that languished in publishing limbo for a year and a half contains meticulously collected data and photographic evidence supporting scientists’ initial hypothesis—that the outbreak stemmed from infected wild animals—which prevailed until speculation that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a nearby lab gained ...