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In COVID-19's case, there's a reasonable chance that it's a synthetic product of gain of function research.

Is there any primary source evidence of this or is this reporters reporting things reported by other reporters? The former would be incredibly compelling, the latter would lead me to question the reporter’s motives.

The US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology gain of function research on coronaviruses.

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...

There's evidence that it's synthetic

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html

Most of the researchers who are strongly denying the possibility of COVID-19 being synthesized in a lab have conflicting interests. Namely, they are associated with organizations that have directly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of virology.

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