First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources. The three scientists were engaged in “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill.

Shocking absolutely no one. Waiting to see real evidence on this but I bet this is likely true, as there have been indications this is something the Chinese government has been going to great lengths to conceal, even hunting people down in other countries and arresting them.