HubeiCDC

In a non-peer-reviewed and unpublished short paper on Researchgate in April 2020, Huazhong University DNA researcher Botao Xiao older and Lei Xiao claim that Covid-19 escaped from bat research into the Wuhan population from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention provincial office in Wuhan, Hubei. AFAIK, the Class 2 lab at that location merely investigates unusual infectious disease at hospitals in Hubei province and performs no wildlife research.

This withdrawn preprint still circulates among the fringe right wing, and was quoted by non-science-writer Nicholson Baker in an article in New York Magazine (not to be confused with the New York Times magazine or the New Yorker magazine.

Published 2021/01/04 The Lab Leak Hypothesis makes strange statements like "no public investigation has taken place. We still know very little about the origins of this disease."