They said it early enough in the pandemic that it solidified as narrative for the Corporate Media.
But if you read it, you’d see it was written by Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the firm that funded creation of Covid in the Wuhan Lab, and gave Wuhan the tech created by Ralph Baric.

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P.S. Jeffrey Sachs was the same guy who accidentally spilled the beans about Nordstream a year later.