Besides getting some public-health matters wrong after the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, it now appears we may have been misinformed about the likelihood that that the pandemic was caused by a leak at China’s Wuhan Institute, as Zeynep Tufekci writes at the NYT. … She points to yet another NYT piece that has also raised past and present safety concerns at places like Wuhan. … A-not-so-random thought: A problem with conspiracy theories is that they’re occasionally right. 

Btw – I missed this COVID-related piece by the Globe’s Joan Vennochi last week: “The chill on speech during COVID-19 hurt the country.”