COVID likely came from a lab, new statistics study finds

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A new sophisticated statistical analysis from an economics professor at Dartmouth University indicates that there is a high probability that COVID-19 originated from a lab accident in China, rather than from animals.

Andrew Levin, a monetary economist who has published other papers on COVID since the pandemic started in 2020, released a draft paper on Monday using a complex form of statistical modeling to compare the competing hypotheses of where the virus originated.

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