Tom Cotton was right: Coronavirus may have come from a Chinese lab

Published April 14, 2020 7:06pm ET



Now that the Washington Post reported on it, is it finally OK to say out loud that the China-borne coronavirus may have come out of a science lab in Wuhan?

I only ask because the national media and left-wing denialists, right up to this very moment, have been nearly snapping their own spines while bending over backward to dismiss the idea. They pilloried Republican Sen. Tom Cotton as a lunatic for stating the obvious — that China, one way or another, is solely responsible for the global disease outbreak that has so far left more than 100,000 dead and nearly 2 million infected.

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